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The Prince of Wales has visited his wife in hospital – as Queen Camilla said the King is “looking forward to getting back to work”. Prince William was seen leaving the private London Clinic at around 12.35pm today. Meanwhile, Queen Camilla has said the King is “fine” and “looking forward to getting back to work”

French police have arrested a suspected people smuggler after a vehicle carrying 40 migrants was intercepted near the coastal town where five people died last weekend. The vehicle was travelling on the D237 road near Wimereux, just north of Boulogne-sur-Mer, when it was stopped at 3.35am this morning. The driver was taken into police custody.

The King will go to hospital next week where he will be treated for an enlarged prostate. The 75-year-old monarch’s condition is benign but his public engagements will be postponed while he recuperates after the corrective procedure, Buckingham Palace announced this afternoon. In a statement, it said: “In common with thousands of men each year,

The prime minister was never going to lose the two amendment votes, but the results tonight would have been hard to hear. On both rebel amendments, up to 60 of his own MPs told Rishi Sunak that his flagship illegal immigration plan doesn’t go far enough. In parliament’s central lobby after the vote tonight, one

The boss of Fujitsu has apologised for the Horizon scandal and said the company has a “moral obligation” to contribute to the compensation scheme for victims. Paul Patterson, director of Europe’s Fujitsu Services Limited, told a committee of MPs he was sorry on behalf of the company, which developed the faulty IT software at the

A group of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of stealing more than £100,000 from the Post Office have told Sky News there must be criminal prosecutions against those in charge. Vipin Patel, Nicki Arch and Sarah Osolinski, who ran Post Offices in Oxford, Stroud and Cheltenham respectively, have described how their lives were destroyed by the Horizon

The UK will send 20,000 troops to one of NATO’s biggest military drills since the Cold War as the alliance practices repelling an invasion by Russian forces, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is expected to announce today. Army, navy and RAF personnel will be deployed to the 31-nation Steadfast Defender exercise in a bid to provide

Six people have been arrested over a suspected plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange, the Metropolitan Police has said. The force said it began its investigation after receiving information from the Daily Express on Friday. Activists from a group called Palestine Action were allegedly intending to target the exchange on Monday morning. It is

A 70-year-old woman has been charged with a driving offence after a car collided with pro-Palestinian protesters in Edinburgh. Police Scotland said the crash involved a small number of people and, while there had been reports of minor injuries, no one needed medical attention. Pictures posted on social media show a black Seat Leon surrounded

Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has said he cannot remember receiving a detailed briefing about the Horizon scandal while he was prime minister – but says he is sorry for an “appalling miscarriage of justice”. The apology by the former Tory leader and MP comes amid continuing fallout from the Post Office debacle that led to

The Post Office could be facing a £100m bill and insolvency after claiming tax relief for its compensation payments to sub-postmasters, a tax expert has claimed. Dan Neidle, the head of non-profit organisation Tax Policy Associates, said the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments, and suggested it could be “unlawful”. The

A woman’s body has been found during the search for Lucy Charles who went missing three weeks ago. North Wales Police said on Friday that its officers and underwater teams recovered the body from the River Dee. Formal identification is yet to take place. Ms Charles, from Bangor-on-Dee, near Wrexham, was last seen walking past

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice at the weekend and into next week. The alert, which warns some travel disruption is likely, covers northern Scotland and is in place over Sunday. Another warning for snow and ice has been issued for the whole of Northern Ireland and will

British and US forces have launched an attack on Houthi targets in Yemen after the Iranian-backed militant group defied a warning to stop targeting ships in the Red Sea, according to reports. Reuters said four US officials confirmed strikes had begun. In addition, three explosions were heard in the country’s capital of Sanaa, according to

A Tory MP has thrown down the gauntlet to former footballer Gary Lineker, telling him to stand at the next election amid an ongoing feud with the BBC presenter. Jonathan Gullis criticised Lineker last month on social media for signing an open letter against the Rwanda bill, claiming it breached the BBC’s new impartiality rules.

The family of murder victim Muriel McKay have offered a landowner £40,000 to let them excavate the farm where they believe her body was buried 54 years ago. They hope the money would compensate the banker for the inconvenience and any damage and repairs to his land. The offer was made in a letter hand-delivered

A young mother who was forced to live in a mould and damp ridden housing association flat says she cried herself to sleep at night not knowing if her one year old daughter “was going to wake up the next day”.  Shelby Atherton, 20, moved into her two-bedroom flat in Rochdale in October 2023. But

More than half of child sexual abuse offences recorded in 2022 were committed by other children, new figures reveal. Police say the rise of child-on-child abuse is fuelled by access to violent pornography and smart phones. Data from 42 police forces in England and Wales shows that a total of 106,984 child sexual abuse offences

A murder investigation has been launched after a man was stabbed to death at Strawberry Hill railway station in Twickenham. Four men have been arrested after the attack in southwest London last night. Metropolitan Police officers and the ambulance service were called to the station at 11.53pm where a man in his 20s was pronounced

Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby legend JPR Williams has died aged 74, his former club has announced. He played a big part in Wales’ success in the 1970s – helping them to three Grand Slams – and featured on the triumphant Lions tours to New Zealand in 1971 and 1974 in South Africa.