Don Valley: Jessica Ennis' Track To Close

By Becky Johnson, North of England Correspondent The athletics stadium where Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis trains is to close. Sheffield City Council voted to go ahead with the closure of the Don Valley stadium as part of a package of cuts....

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Defence Sec: Cut Welfare Not Troops

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has warned he will resist further cuts to the armed forces in Chancellor George Osborne's forthcoming spending review. After Downing Street said publicly last month that the military would not be immune from further...

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Middle-Aged Drinking Takes Toll on 'Ladettes'

By James Matthews, Sky Correspondent The "ladette" culture of the 1980s and 90s is a key factor in the growing number of middle-aged women turning to drink, according to the founder of a support website. Lucy Rocca says women between 30 and 50...

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Rape T-Shirts: Amazon Offers 'Hit Her' Tops Too

Amazon UK has continued to offer controversial clothing on its website hours after an American fashion firm was forced to apologise for selling "Keep Calm And Rape" T-shirts. The discovery comes after the "Keep Calm And Rape A Lot" shirts, offered for...

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Lloyds: Osborne Plans Taxpayer Stake Sale

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The Government will signal today that it will begin the sell-off of its stake in Lloyds Banking Group when the lender's share price hits 61p - a far lower level than previously thought. I have learnt that UK Financial...

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Jessica Ennis Makes Don Valley Stadium Appeal

By Mike McCarthy, North of England Correspondent Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis has made an eleventh-hour appeal to save the stadium that helped to inspire her. Councillors are expected to approve closure of the Don Valley Stadium at a budget...

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Breast Cancer: UK Lagging In Survival Rates

By Thomas Moore, Health and Science Correspondent Ageism and poor treatment are reducing women's chances of surviving breast cancer, new research suggests. The study, funded by the Department of Health, revealed that women in Britain are far less...

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Premier League To Use Goal-Line Technology

By Enda Brady, Sky News Correspondent Debates over whether the ball crossed the line or not will soon be a thing of the past in the Premier League with the news that goal-line technology will be used from next season onwards. The Premier League...

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Lord Rennard: 'Several' Call Police Hotline

Sky sources say that "several" women have called a Scotland Yard hotline over sexual harassment allegations relating to the former Lib Dem chief executive. It comes as a former party activist told Sky News she offered to make an official complaint that...

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Woman's Diamond Ring Stolen As She Lay Dying

A dying woman had a treasured diamond ring stolen from her finger in the final moments of her life at a hospice. The gold band was taken from Wendy Dolton's hand as she lay powerless in her bed. Hours later, the 65-year-old lost her battle with cancer....

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Tia Sharp: Neighbour Denies Time-Wasting

A neighbour of the grandmother of murdered schoolgirl Tia Sharp has denied wasting police time. Paul Meehan, 40, is accused of causing wasteful employment of the police by making a false report saying he had information linked to an inquiry in August...

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Secret Baggage Searches For Air Passengers

Air passengers are having their bags secretly searched for alcohol and cigarettes in a practice that is "prohibited", an inspector's report has found. Customs staff routinely searched travellers and holidaymakers bags without the owners being present,...

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Lord Rennard: Clegg Admits 'Serious Mistakes'

Nick Clegg has admitted his party made "very serious mistakes" in its handling of sexual harassment claims against its then chief executive Lord Rennard. The Deputy Prime Minister continued to insist that he was personally unaware of any specific allegations...

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Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell In Court

By Mike McCarthy, North Of England Correspondent The Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has appeared in court for the first time to face six charges of raping a child. Le Vell, who plays Kevin Webster in the ITV soap opera, is accused of 19...

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Horsemeat: Tesco To Source More Meat From UK

By Poppy Trowbridge, Business and Economics Correspondent Tesco is to announce a commitment to source more of its meat from the UK at a farming conference in Birmingham later. The supermarket kingpin will tell the National Farmers Union meeting...

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Badger Culls To Go Ahead In Two Areas

Controversial proposals for badger culls in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset can go ahead, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has announced. Speaking at the National Farmers' Union conference in Birmingham, he said final licence conditions had...

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Ben Nevis Climber Killed In 165ft Fall

A climber has died after falling 50 metres (165ft) on Ben Nevis. The man was climbing with a friend in the Raeburn's Buttress area of the UK's highest mountain, in the Scottish Highlands, when he fell at around 12.30pm on Monday. Two helicopters flew...

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Burger Sales Plunge 43% Amid Horsemeat Scare

Frozen beef burger and ready meal sales have plunged dramatically, according to the first retail sales data since the horsemeat scandal erupted. Kantar Worldpanel said that in the four weeks ending February 17, frozen burger sales plunged by 43% while...

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Tamara Ecclestone's Ex Jailed For Blackmail

The former boyfriend of socialite and model Tamara Ecclestone has been jailed for four years for blackmailing her for £200,000. Derek Rose, of Camden, north London, dated the daughter of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone in 2002. An email sent...

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Tom Maynard: Cricketer Death Inquest Begins

By Jason Farrell, Sky News Correspondent A promising young cricketer had cocaine and ecstasy in his system and was nearly four-times over the drink drive limit on the night he died, an inquest has heard. Tom Maynard stepped on a live rail and was...

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April Jones Murder: Mark Bridger On Trial

Former lifeguard Mark Bridger will go on trial today accused of the murder of schoolgirl April Jones. Bridger, 47, was arrested the day after the five-year-old vanished while playing on her bike near her home in Machynlleth, Wales, on October 1 last...

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Pound Under Pressure After Rating Downgrade

Market Reaction: Apocalypse No Updated: 10:58am UK, Monday 25 February 2013 By Ed Conway, Economics Editor Let's get this straight: on Friday night Moody's downgraded Britain's credit rating for the first time since it started giving official...

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Britain's Top Cardinal Keith O'Brien Resigns

The most senior priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Britain Cardinal Keith O'Brien has resigned over allegations of innappropriate behaviour up to 30 years ago. The news comes just a day after the claims by three priests and a former priest first...

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Dagenham Acid Attack: Man And Woman Arrested

Police investigating an acid attack on a woman in east London have arrested two people on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. Naomi Oni, 21, suffered injuries to much of her face when she was attacked in Lodge Avenue, Dagenham, at around...

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Banksy Mural Withdrawn From Auction

By Liz Lane, Sky News Reporter A Banksy work that was removed from the side of a north London Poundland shop under mysterious circumstances has been withdrawn from sale in the US. The world's most famous street artist painted the mural on the side...

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Doctors From Abroad Must Take English Test

By Lisa Dowd, Sky News Correspondent New checks will be introduced to make sure all NHS doctors can speak English well enough to treat patients, the Government has announced. It comes five years after David Gray, 70, was killed by a German doctor...

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Cardinal Keith O'Brien Contests Accusations

Britain's most senior Roman Catholic clergyman has been reported to the Vatican over claims of inappropriate behaviour, a newspaper has claimed. The Observer reports that three priests and a former priest have made the allegations against Cardinal Keith...

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'Gas Poison' Deaths: Caravan Park Trio Named

By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent The three people who died of suspected carbon monoxide in Cornwall have been named locally as John and Audrey Cook, and their daughter, Maureen. John Cook, 90, and his 86-year-old wife Audrey died on Saturday...

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