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The government was “well aware” of the deadly risks posed by combustible cladding and insulation a year before the Grenfell Tower fire, but “failed to act on what it knew”, a landmark report has found. The report also said “systemic dishonesty” from cladding and insulation companies and a “toxic” relationship between the tower’s residents and

An inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire will deliver its final report this morning, seven years after the deadly blaze. The long-running inquiry’s second report into the disaster, which claimed the lives of 72 people, will present its findings on how the west London tower block came to be in a condition to allow the

Three children and two teenagers have been arrested over the murder of an 80-year-old man. The victim, who was walking his dog in a park in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, was seriously assaulted on Sunday and died in hospital last night. A boy and a girl, both 14, and one boy and two girls, all aged

Two teenage boys have been charged with the murder of a 13-year-old. Jahziah Coke died after he was stabbed at his home in Oldbury last Thursday, West Midlands Police said. In a statement, his mother said: “Jahziah was a very polite, kind and family-orientated young man. “He was very loving and always smiling. His smile

The UK will suspend some arms sales to Israel, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has announced. Mr Lammy said the decision comes following a review of export licences for UK arms which found there was a “clear risk” that the weapons would be used in a way that could breach international law. Around 30 of 350

Sixty-seven children lived in Grenfell Tower when the west London block caught fire in June 2017. Eighteen of them never got a chance to grow up. For many of the others, the traumatic loss, anxiety and PTSD that followed the disaster has shaped their childhoods and young adult lives. They lost friends, family and everything

A woman has been charged with the murder of a six-year-old boy. Alexander Zurawski died on Thursday at a property in the Gendros area of Swansea. Karolina Zurawska, 41, has been charged with his murder, as well as the attempted murder in connection with an incident involving a 67-year-old man earlier on the same day.

Oasis fans have scrambled for tickets for the band’s reunion tour, battling technical issues and waiting for hours in virtual queues. Noel and Liam Gallagher confirmed the band’s long-awaited reunion on Tuesday, saying: “The great wait is over.” Tickets for the Oasis Live 25 tour sold out within hours, with the band posting on X

Two people have died after being attacked in separate incidents at Notting Hill Carnival last weekend. Cher Maximen, 32, was at the event last Sunday with her child when she was stabbed. She died this morning. Police said officers gave emergency treatment to Ms Maximen until paramedics arrived. She was then taken to hospital in

“His room is still the same” and “there’s always a missing chair around the table”, says Pip, whose younger brother Sanjiv Kundi was 41 when he vanished in Paris 11 years ago. She has visited the French capital many times since he left the family home in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, for a week’s holiday –

A murder investigation has been launched after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death. Police were called at 4pm on Thursday to a home on Lovett Avenue in the West Midlands market town of Oldbury. West Midlands Police say a team of detectives is investigating. Detective Superintendent Shaun Edwards, from the force’s homicide team, said:

Video given to Sky News shows terrified residents at a tower block on fire in east London appearing to have their escape blocked by a locked gate. More than 80 people were evacuated and two taken to hospital after the fire broke out in the building in Dagenham in the early hours of Monday morning.

A teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15-year-old girl to death in the street after following her for 45 minutes. Holly Newton was left with 36 knife injuries after an attack in the Priestpopple area of Hexham, Northumberland, in January last year. A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, admitted a charge of

A young woman with a bright yellow balloon in her mouth giggles as a police car pulls up beside her. Next to her in the Fiat 500, her friend inhales gas from a blue balloon. Both women are visibly high and still giggling as two officers jump out of their car. Their mission: a targeted

Three people have been killed in a road collision in Anglesey, police have confirmed. North Wales Police say it responded to the incident in the town of Beaumaris shortly after 2.45pm on Wednesday. Police attended Alma Street, close to Beaumaris Pier, along with ambulance and air ambulance crews. Officers say work is continuing to establish

Hundreds of cannabis couriers have been caught trying to smuggle suitcases full of the drug through British airports. They are being duped by traffickers into thinking the UK authorities are soft on cannabis and will let them off with a fine, according to the National Crime Agency. A man who landed from Los Angeles with

Cast your mind back to the heady days of early July, as a beaming Sir Keir Starmer swept into Downing Street to a cheering crowd and the promise of “change”. Britain’s seventh ever Labour prime minister had won a landslide that deservedly drew parallels between himself and the party’s most successful election winner Tony Blair.

Eyewitness: The time for answers will come, but help is more urgent By Matthew Thompson, home and political correspondent, reporting from Dagenham for Sky News As we arrived first thing this morning, the fire was smouldering, but it was a mere shadow of the inferno that had engulfed the building a few hours before. Many

Sven-Göran Eriksson doubted so much whether England could ever have a foreign manager that an initial approach was considered a joke.  Intrigued eventually by the ground-breaking opportunity, rather than being deterred by the indignation, the Swede would launch the Three Lions into five of the most frenzied years in their history. Everything belied his suave

Messaging is a key weapon in any government’s armoury. Back in 2010 the new coalition spent the first few months re-iterating the line that Labour had caused economic chaos, aided by the famous note “there is no money left”. It was so successful that some political analysis believe it was a big factor in helping