The owners of the RAC roadside recovery service are preparing to offload the company in a deal which could value it at up to £5bn. Sky News has learnt that CVC Capital Partners, the Singaporean sovereign investment fund GIC and Silver Lake Partners have been in discussions about plans to launch an auction or a…
A minister has denied claims that Sir Keir Starmer could risk breaching international law with his pledge to recognise Palestine as a state. Nearly 40 members of the House of Lords, including prominent UK lawyers, made the claims in a letter to Attorney General Lord Hermer yesterday. Politics latest: Starmer launches late payment crackdown The…
Shares in Meta, the tech firm behind Facebook and Instagram, have surged in extended trading after posting a bumper set of financial results that eased concerns it was lagging rivals in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. The stock was up 11% after it reported figures covering the second quarter that smashed analysts’ expectations in almost…
A yellow thunderstorm warning will come into force this morning – with heavy rain, lighting and hail set to hit parts of southern England. The alert, covering areas including Bristol, Oxford, Southampton, London, Kent and Ipswich, will be in effect from 10am to 9pm. Forecasters have said downpours could dump up to 60mm of rainfall…
Food inflation will rise to 6% by the end of the year – posing a “significant challenge” to household budgets in the run-up to Christmas, industry leaders have predicted. The British Retail Consortium is warning that the chancellor risks “fanning the flames of inflation” if she hikes taxes in the coming budget. Despite intense price…
Infections from a strain of E.coli that causes stomach issues rose by more than 25% last year – with toddlers most commonly affected, figures show. The UK Health Security Agency has said the rise was partly down to a single outbreak linked to contaminated salad leaves, but also warned cases have been gradually increasing since…
A dentist has been jailed for life for poisoning his wife’s protein shakes before delivering a fatal dose of cyanide while she was in hospital. James Craig, from Colorado in the US, had searched on the internet “how to make murder look like a heart attack” weeks before Angela – his wife of 23 years…
The mother of a 10-year-old girl who died from complications of measles has urged parents to have their children vaccinated amid a surge of cases. Renae Archer was too young to have the MMR vaccine when she caught the infection at just five months old. A decade later, she was diagnosed with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis,…
The mother of a five-year-old boy who died after being sent home from hospital because of a “lack of beds” has told Sky News that the second report into his death “has not brought closure for the family”. Yusuf Nazir died in November 2022. His mother Soniya had rushed her son to Rotherham Hospital’s A&E,…
Two British children, aged 11 and 13, have drowned in eastern Spain. The Spanish General Directorate of Civil Protection said in a statement that the two children died on Tuesday evening after getting into difficulty off Llarga beach in Salou, Tarragones, Catalonia. Their father had entered the water with them and was rescued, it added.…