Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells will give evidence to the next phase of the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal. She served as chief executive from 2012 to 2019, and has faced questions about why hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud and false accounting under her watch. Scrutiny grew after she was
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Dozens of police hunting the Clapham chemical attacker raided a flat in east London where it is believed the suspect’s brother lives – evacuating shocked neighbours and questioning them at 2am. An officer told residents: “We are looking for someone. It’s not safe to be in there, just in case there’s a hazard we need
Associated Press Feb 2, 2024, 10:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Theo Epstein, who as Red Sox general manager was the architect of two World Series championships, is returning to the organization as a minority owner and part-time senior adviser to its parent company, Fenway Sports Group. Epstein, who also helped the Chicago
In this article XOM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Exxon Mobil gas station in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 203. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Exxon Mobil reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, but the company’s profit declined significantly from same period the year prior as oil prices
Hovercrafts are the platypus of the transportation world, borrowing parts and principles from wildly divergent sources and mashing them together into something that physically functions but rarely looks very attractive. Vonmercier seems to be trying to change all that with a new electric hovercraft design that heavily embraces the world of sleeky, sexy sportscars. Say
Badderz UK is an online reality show in which contestants are encouraged to drink, fight and generally behave badly. It’s quickly gone viral, raking up almost 100,000 views in less than a week. It is – as its executive producer Lani Good admits – unashamedly “extreme”. Were it to be on TV, without question she
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has revealed to Sky News she no longer goes out socially because of threats and abuse and that she was “scared” when confronted by pro-Palestinian supporters. The senior frontbencher said the level of intimidation had impacted on her day-to-day life and she had changed her behaviour. People wanting to see
Tony Blair and Elton John joined other famous mourners at the funeral of Derek Draper, the husband of television presenter Kate Garraway, in London today. Draper, a former political adviser and psychotherapist, died last month. Image: Derek Draper in 2009. Pic: PA He was said to be one of the UK’s longest-suffering COVID patients after
An arm of the giant Indian conglomerate Tata is in the frame to take over the running of Britain’s Faster Payments Service – even as one of its sister companies prepares to lay off thousands of Welsh-based steelworkers. Sky News has learnt that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a leading contender to become the administrator
In 2023, the names of two women were on everyone’s lips: Barbie, and Taylor Swift. Both are represented at the Grammy Awards tonight. Swift‘s music needs no introduction of course, while Barbie makes the cut thanks to the contributions to the film’s soundtrack by Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa (Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken sadly
The two teenagers found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Brianna Ghey can be named as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe for the first time. They were just 15 when they lured Brianna to Linear Park in Culcheth, near Warrington, where she was stabbed 28 times in her head, neck and back with a hunting knife on
The suspected chemical attacker who targeted a woman and children is still at large, and the focus is on the police finding hm. But inside government, serious questions are starting to be raised about how a convicted sex offender is understood to have been granted asylum, after being handed a suspended jail sentence. Abdul Shokoor
A man accused of a chemical attack on a mother and two children in Clapham, south London, is on the run and being hunted by three police forces. Police have warned the public the suspect is “dangerous”, should not be approached, and anyone who spots him should call 999 immediately. Clapham chemical attack latest: ‘Big
Valvoline had last year decided to separate its retail services and global products divisions following a strategic review. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Saudi Arabia’s state-controlled Aramco on Tuesday announced it is shelving plans to raise its crude production capacity from 12 million barrels per day to 13 million barrels per day, amid broader
At least two people have been killed and 29 injured after gas explosion in Nairobi, according to reports. A local newspaper in the Kenyan capital said the blast happened in the Embakasi neighbourhood just before midnight on Thursday. Wesley Kimeto, commander in charge of police in Embakasi, was quoted saying on the Standard newspaper’s X
In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg is so pleased with his “year of efficiency” that he’s extending it indefinitely.
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There was a time when he’d have jumped at the chance – not today, not with this president. Alabas Farhat, Democratic representative for the state of Michigan, declined the invitation for a “meet and greet” with Joe Biden and he wasn’t alone. Arab Muslim community leaders in the greater Detroit area snubbed the campaign visit
A former CIA employee has been jailed for 40 years over the largest leak of classified information in the agency’s history. Joshua Schulte, a software engineer from New York, passed the data to whistleblowing agency WikiLeaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak in 2017. Prosecutors, who had pushed for a full life term, said in
Bruce Springsteen mother – known to fans for often joining him on stage to dance – has died aged 98. The US rocker paid tribute to Adele Springsteen on Instagram, posting a video of them dancing together in a garden. He said she died on Wednesday and quoted the lyrics from The Wish, a song