Home Ownership '£1,440 Cheaper' Than Renting

The cost of buying a home has become £1,440 a year cheaper than renting, according to new research. Halifax found the average monthly costs associated with buying a three-bedroomed house stood at £621 in December, which is £120 cheaper than the typical...

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Territorial Army In Live Recruitment Drive

By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent The first of a series of live television adverts will be broadcast today to help recruitment to the Territorial Army. The advert will go out on ITV just after midday, broadcast from Afghanistan and real...

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Prisoners Charged With Child Killer's Murder

Two prisoners have been charged with murder after the death of child killer Subhan Anwar in jail. Anwar's body was found by prison officers at Long Lartin jail near Evesham in Worcestershire on Thursday evening. The two suspects, aged 47 and 45, were...

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Horsemeat: Farmers In 'Buy British' Campaign

By Clare Fallon, Sky News Reporter Officials investigating the horsemeat scandal have raided three more properties in Britain. Two sites in Tottenham, North London, and one in Hull in Yorkshire were searched by Food Standards Agency officials,...

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Horsemeat: Tesco Promises Open Approach

Tesco has released a video featuring its CEO promising the company will take a more open approach to food processing in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. Downing Street has attacked meat retailers for keeping customers in the dark over the extent of...

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Michael Le Vell 'Will Not Appear In Corrie'

Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell will not appear in further episodes of the soap after being charged with child sex offences. Le Vell, who plays garage owner Kevin Webster in the ITV soap opera, is accused of 19 child sex offences, including...

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Pipe Bomb Found Near School In Belfast

A pipe bomb has been discovered close to a primary school in north Belfast. The device was found in the Forth River Road area in the north of the city on Thursday afternoon, police said. A suspicious object was discovered by a member of the public...

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Child Murderer Subhan Anwar Killed In Jail

A child murderer has been killed in Worcestershire's Long Lartin Prison, the Ministry of Justice says. Two prisoners are being held in police custody after the death of Subhan Anwar, who was jailed in 2009 for torturing and killing a two-year-old girl....

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Stafford Hospital: Dementia Patient Abused

A health worker at Stafford Hospital dragged an elderly dementia patient around by his pyjamas before calling him an animal, a medical tribunal has heard. Bonka Kostova, a Bulgarian-qualified midwife who was working as a healthcare assistant, was found...

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'Jon Venables Twitter Photo' Investigation

A picture purporting to show the new identity of one of the killers of toddler James Bulger has been posted on Twitter, prompting an investigation. The image is supposed to show Jon Venables, who was jailed along with his friend Robert Thompson for...

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Bute: Traces Of Horse Drug In Carcasses In UK

A potenitally dangerous horse painkiller has not been detected in Findus food products - but traces of the drug have been found in carcasses slaughtered at UK abattoirs, MPs have been told. Agriculture Minister David Heath told the House of Commons...

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Labour Plans Mansion Tax To Fund 10p Tax Rate

Ed Miliband has called for the 10p tax rate to be reintroduced, funded by a mansion tax on homes worth more than £2m. In an audacious bid to outflank David Cameron, he claimed Labour would use next month's Budget to bring back the band controversially...

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Woman And Toddler Hit-And-Run CCTV Released

Police have released video of the moment a woman and toddler were sent flying in a hit-and-run in an effort to track the driver and the car. The CCTV footage shows the 42-year-old driving instructor and her three-year-old nephew crossing the road on...

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Weather: Snow Blanketing Parts Of UK

Parts of the UK are set to see up to six inches of snow, as drivers were warned of perilous driving conditions in some areas. Forecasters say the latest snowfall will be followed by rain, before much of the country enjoys a period of sunshine and milder...

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Phone Hacking: Journalists Held In New Probe

Six current and ex-journalists who all worked for the News Of The World have been arrested in a new police investigation into phone hacking claims. An internal message sent to News International employees confirmed two of those detained were journalists...

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Retailer Republic Goes Into Administration

Fashion retailer Republic has gone into administration, putting 2,500 jobs at risk. It has already made 150 employees at the head office in Leeds redundant. Republic began as a men's denim retailer in 1986 under the Best Jeans brand, and sells brands...

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Barclays Cuts 3,700 Jobs In Bank Shake-Up

Barclays has announced 3,700 job cuts amid plans to cut £1.7bn in costs and improve standards. Of these job losses, 1,800 will be in its corporate and investment bank and 1,900 will be in European retail and business banking. Some 1,600 jobs have already...

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Sea Shanty Singer Dies After Freak Accident

A member of the sea shanty group Fisherman's Friends has died in hospital following an accident which also killed the tour manager. Trevor Grills, 54, suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a falling metal door at the G Live concert venue...

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Poundland Graduate Cait Reilly Wins Appeal

A university graduate who was made to work at Poundland for free under a Government scheme has won her Court of Appeal claim. Cait Reilly, 24, from Birmingham, had argued that being forced to work in the discount shop for nothing while she looked for...

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Saudi Crash: British Boy Orphaned As Five Dead

A one-year-old boy was the only survivor of a car crash in Saudi Arabia that killed five members of his family from south Wales. Mohammed Eisa Daniel was reportedly found in the crumpled wreckage being cradled in the arms of his dying grandfather. ...

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James Bulger Killer Venables 'Still A Danger'

By Becky Johnson, North of England Correspondent The mother of James Bulger has told Sky News she believes tougher sentences are needed to stop people who commit serious crimes from "getting away with it". Speaking on the eve of the 20th anniversary...

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Weather: Ice Warning After Snow And Sleet

Ice warnings are in place for much of the country after more than four inches (10cm) of snow settled in some places. Sleet and snow began falling in central, eastern and southern areas overnight with most areas from Scotland down through to southeast...

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Policewoman Death Crash: Two Men In Court

Two men have been charged over the death of a policewoman whose patrol car was hit by a stolen 4x4 in Northern Ireland. Constable Philippa Reynolds, 27, from the Greater Belfast area, died when the unmarked car she was travelling in turned into the...

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Page 3: Murdoch 'Considering' Ending Photos

Rupert Murdoch says The Sun is "considering" scrapping the photographs of topless women it prints on page 3. In a tweet, the chief executive of News Corporation, which owns the company that publishes the newspaper, said campaigners may be correct in...

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Clegg Speaks Of 'Shock' Over Huhne Affair

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told Sky News he was "shocked" by the resignation of Chris Huhne, adding that the former Energy Secretary needs to "make amends" in the wake of the affair. In a lengthy interview with Sky's Dermot Murnaghan, Mr Clegg...

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Snow To Fall Again As Wintry Weather Returns

Forecasters have warned that another burst of wintry weather is due to hit parts of Britain. Some areas of central and southern England may see between two and five centimetres of snow by the early hours of Monday morning, potentially making conditions...

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Horsemeat Scandal: 'Prepare For More Cases'

More cases of contaminated meat may be revealed within days, the Government has warned as it raised fears that an international criminal conspiracy was behind the horse meat scandal. The warning came as The Independent newspaper claimed up to one in...

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Children's Road Safety TV Adverts To Be Axed

Television adverts teaching children how to cross the road are to be scrapped for the first time in 60 years - despite a rise in the number of deaths. Campaigns such as Tufty the Squirrel and the Green Cross Code man will be axed due to Department for...

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