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Britain's elite, rapid reaction force is to be equipped with high-speed boats and drones as the new defence secretary Dan Jarvis tries to put his stamp on his new brief.

People of colour or on low income are more than twice as likely to live in neighbourhoods that are polluted and prone to overheating, according to new analysis shared exclusively with Sky News.

The crocodile enclosure where a three-year-old boy was seriously injured by at least one of the reptiles has reopened to the public.

A man has been convicted of murder after a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in a children's play area during a family music festival in West London.

The family of a "devoted mum" said they have been left "heartbroken" after a train struck a car at a level crossing in Lancashire, also critically injuring an eight-year-old girl.

Nicholas Rossi, who fled from the US to Scotland after he faked his own death to avoid rape charges, has died in hospital.

A man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail after a "cowardly" assault on two female police officers at Manchester Airport.

A man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail after a "cowardly" assault on two female police officers at Manchester Airport.

Police are urging the mother of a newborn baby found dead in a pile of rubbish at a warehouse in the West Midlands to come forward.

Thirteen people were injured and the pilot was killed when a light aircraft crashed into a Beijing skyscraper on Friday.

A pilot has died after her light aircraft crashed near Dunkeswell airfield in Devon.

A newly-released video shows Vickrum Digwa lying to officers, saying he had been "racially attacked" by Henry Nowak.

The sentencing hearing for a gang of underworld gun suppliers had to be abandoned after a newly rebuilt court building was unable to cope with the hot temperatures.

Victims who suffered debilitating pain and learning difficulties from pelvic mesh and an epilepsy drug must receive compensation, the author of a report into the treatments told Sky News.

Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton has pleaded guilty to mishandling classified documents.

A man who killed six people when he drove into crowds at a Christmas market in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison.

A 74-year-old man has become the oldest person to be executed since records began in Florida.

A 74-year-old man has become the oldest person to be executed since records began in Florida.

A boy aged 14 has been charged with murder following the discovery of a female body in south Wales.

Police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a three-year-old girl was found dead in a property in Surrey.