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Two 12-year-old boys are thought to have become the youngest knife murderers in the UK after being found guilty of killing a 19-year-old in a machete attack. Warning: This story contains details readers may find distressing Shawn Seesahai, 19, died after the attack on 13 November last year. He was struck on his back, legs

The search for missing TV doctor Michael Mosley will continue on Friday with more officers, according to police on the Greek island of Symi. A local Facebook group said Mosley, known for appearing on programmes like This Morning, went for a walk from Saint Nikolas Beach at about 1.30pm Greek time on Wednesday. Police and

A body has been found in the search for TV doctor Michael Mosley, who went missing on a Greek island, police and the deputy mayor of Symi have confirmed. The body was found in a cave on Symi, the deputy mayor said. Separately, a police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of an

An urgent health warning has been issued after an E.coli outbreak was linked to a “nationally distributed food item”. An unspecified number of people are being treated in hospital due to the outbreak, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The UKHSA said testing indicates that most of the 113 cases reported in the

A dad who died just hours before the birth of his daughter could have been saved, a coroner has ruled. On the morning of 7 June last year, Rebecca Moss went to wake up her partner, Thomas Gibson, telling him “wake up, it’s baby day” as she was due to give birth by elective Caesarean

Reform UK has pulled to within two points of the Conservatives, according to the latest YouGov poll of the election campaign for Sky News. The latest exclusive weekly survey, conducted on Monday and Tuesday before the head-to-head TV debate, puts Labour on 40%, the Tories on 19%, Reform UK on 17%, the Liberal Democrats on

The leaders of the two main parties clashed on Tuesday night in their first debate of the general election campaign. Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer argued over issues including tax, the NHS, immigration and the cost of living in a debate that at times seemed bad-tempered, as the two men were repeatedly told to

A number of procedures have been cancelled or redirected to other NHS providers after a cyber attack affected major hospitals in the capital. King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ (including the Royal Brompton and the Evelina London Children’s Hospital) and primary care services were hit by the “major IT incident” involving pathology partner Synnovis,

The most famous TV election debate image is a sweaty and unshaven Richard Nixon up against the telegenic JFK in the US in 1960. Here in the UK, the most decisive debate game-changer was Gordon Brown and David Cameron conceding “I agree with Nick” in 2010. That sparked the “Cleggmania” which propelled Nick Clegg to

Nigel Farage has announced he will stand as a candidate in Clacton for Reform UK in the general election on 4 July. Mr Farage had said last week that he would not stand, instead promising to help Richard Tice’s party in its campaign. But speaking at a press conference on Monday, he announced the U-turn

Hospital patients are “dying in corridors”, nurses have warned as they declared a “national emergency” in the NHS. Patients are regularly treated on chairs in corridors for extended periods of time – and sometimes even days, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said. They are also receiving cancer diagnoses in public areas, and may

Rob Burrow, the former rugby league star who worked tirelessly to raise awareness around motor neurone disease (MND) after being diagnosed with the illness, has died at the age of 41. Leeds Rhinos, where Burrow spent his entire league career, said in a statement: “It is with deep sadness that the club can confirm that

More than 2,000 police officers are on duty across London today to monitor fan events ahead of the Champions League final at Wembley, as well as at several protests. It’s a busy day for Met Police officers as they keep an eye on Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid supporters ahead of 8pm kick off, while

Micah Richards has told a court that former Manchester United Roy Keane stayed “cool” and “calm” after allegedly being assaulted, despite his “hardman persona”. Former footballer Richards told Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Friday that he “grappled” with a man accused of headbutting Keane, 52, inside Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in September. Scott Law, 43, from

A woman who, along with her partner, lay undiscovered in a crashed car for days probably would have survived, but for “organisational failure” in police call handling procedures, an inquiry has found. Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after their car careered off the M9 near Stirling on 5 July 2015 as they

In a Sky News interview after Tory MP Christian Wakeford defected to Labour in 2022, Mark Logan was asked if he planned to join him. At the time, the Northern Ireland-born MP laughed and replied jokingly: “I’m not planning to defect – to the Democratic Unionist Party.” Yet two years later, Mr Logan has indeed