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After the debacle of Liz Truss’s September mini-budget, with all its mega ramifications, and an autumn statement eight weeks later that performed an about-turn so big that the country’s tax burden hit a 70-year-high, Wednesday’s budget will be all about stability and sticking to the plan. “No big bangs in this budget,” is how one

China has hit out at the US, UK and Australia over their pact to create new nuclear-powered submarines, saying they have “gone further down a dangerous road”. It follows Rishi Sunak meeting US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego to announce the next stage of the Aukus partnership plan.

A teacher, who believed her “unfaithful” partner was cheating on her again, fatally stabbed him in the neck in their bedroom before burying his body in the garden, a court has been told. Fiona Beal denies murdering Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were found last March, four-and-a-half months after he was last seen at

High-profile figures from sport and broadcasting appear to have poked fun at the BBC over its U-turn on the Gary Lineker impartiality row. After the corporation last Friday suspended the Match of the Day presenter, 62, for his tweets criticising the government’s migration policy, it has now agreed to allow him back on air this

King Charles has given his first Commonwealth Day address as monarch against the backdrop of protests at Westminster Abbey. The King urged the family of nations to “strive together” for the “global common good” at the annual service celebrating the Commonwealth. Other royals at the service included the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of

A climate change protester has been jailed for five weeks after blocking traffic on the M4. Stephen Pritchard, 63, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court for his part in an Insulate Britain demonstration in 2021. He was convicted by a jury of causing a nuisance to the public when he, along with three others,

Rishi Sunak has said there are “no plans” to change a law which prevents the permanent return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece. The sculptures – also known as the Parthenon sculptures or marbles – were controversially removed from one of the world’s most historic monuments in Athens by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early

The BBC’s director general has said bosses are “working very hard” to fix the damage done to the broadcaster following the suspension of Gary Lineker. Tim Davie was speaking after a day when Football Focus and Final Score were taken off the air and Match Of The Day – usually presented by Lineker – was

King Charles has received a horse from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties gifted the King a seven-year-old black mare called Noble – a name she received through the Canadian police’s annual Name the Foal contest. The gift marks a long-standing tradition where the Mounties offer horses to the Royal Family and it signifies

The BBC’s director general says the damage done to football programming following Gary Lineker’s suspension is a “real blow” but he will not be resigning. Tim Davie said he was “sorry audiences have been affected and they haven’t got the programming”. Football Focus and Final Score were taken off the air, and it is understood

The BBC has said it “understands the strength of feeling” among staff about Gary Lineker’s suspension as it battles to get regular football programming back on the air. Final Score and Football Focus were pulled from BBC One on Saturday after their respective hosts, Jason Mohammad and Alex Scott, said they would not be hosting

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has been told to step back from his role on the BBC show due to views he has expressed on Twitter. Lineker has more than eight million followers on the social media platform and, after using it to criticise the government’s new bill on the treatment of asylum

Backing has been given to the first floating wind farm off the Welsh coastline. The Welsh government has given consent for the project, which will be located 40km off the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, to proceed. Project Erebus is expected to provide enough low carbon energy to power 93,000 homes. It will include seven

An 82-year-old man has suffered severe burns after being set on fire outside a mosque. The pensioner was seen having a conversation with a male as they both left the West London Islamic Centre in Ealing, west London, around 8pm on 27 January. They spoke for around five minutes before the man doused the victim

King Charles has embraced a 17th-century tradition to mark his reign in which some of the nation’s leading institutions reaffirmed their loyalty to the monarch – while reflecting on the “profound loss” of his late mother. The monarch received the “privileged bodies”, comprising a group of 27 organisations and corporations, all of which presented loyal

One in four GPs say their practices may not survive due to “insurmountable pressures”, a new report has found.  The report from the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) warned that doctors are bracing for “winter-style pressures” well into the summer and said the NHS “will not survive” without general practice. In a survey of 2,649

A senior Nigerian politician tried to bring a street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney because it was “far better to buy one” than find a family member to donate the organ, a court has heard. Prosecutor Hugh Davies KC has accused Ike Ekweremadu, an opposition senator in Nigeria who has an address

Boris Johnson earned 85% of all the outside pay generated by MPs this year, Sky News can reveal. The former prime minister has declared earnings of £4.8m, mostly since stepping down from Downing Street in speeches and book deals, the latest update to the Westminster Accounts by Sky News can reveal. Some £3.7m of this

BMW, the German car manufacturer, is applying the finishing touches to plans to invest hundreds of millions of pounds into its Oxford plant, securing future production of the iconic Mini in Britain. Sky News has learnt that BMW hopes to announce its decision later in the spring, with one industry insider saying on Wednesday that

King Charles was greeted by boos and shouts of “not my King” when he visited Colchester. The monarch and the Queen Consort were getting out of a car after arriving in the newly minted Essex city as protesters waved banners and one yelled through a megaphone “answer your critics, Charles”. The protester also said “why