Author: SKYNEWS

The evil penguin Feathers McGraw will return in a full-length Wallace and Gromit feature film this Christmas.A trailer released on Thursday for the BBC’s Vengeance Most Fowl shows the villain’s keys, comb, tape measure and glove being put in a prison tray before he enters a cell while a guard looks on before cracking his neck. McGraw was first seen in 1993’s Bafta and Oscar-winning short film The Wrong Trousers. Image: A first look of Vengeance Most Fowl. Pic: Aardman Animations/PA He rented a room by disguising himself as a chicken with a red glove on his head, and was…

Labour will promise to get more young people on the housing ladder as it announces its “freedom to buy” scheme on Friday. The party will pledge to make the existing mortgage guarantee scheme – which sees the government act as a guarantor for people unable to save big deposits – into a permanent fixture if it wins the election on 4 July. Sir Keir Starmer will also commit to an overhaul of the planning system, including reintroducing housing targets, claiming his measures will see 1.5 million more homes built over the next five years.Politics live: Sunak and Starmer attend D-Day…

The woman alleged to be the inspiration for the stalker in hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer is suing the streaming platform for $170m (£133m).The show is said to be based on the real-life experiences of writer Richard Gadd, who plays himself as he copes with stalker Martha Scott. Fiona Harvey, 58, claims she is the inspiration for Martha, who begins stalking Gadd after he serves her a free cup of tea in the pub where he works.In the lawsuit, Ms Harvey has accused Netflix of spreading “brutal lies”, including that she is a “twice convicted stalker who was sentenced to…

While the Grosvenor family is automatically linked in many people’s eyes to properties in west London’s upmarket Mayfair and Belgravia districts, such assets are only part of the wider Grosvenor Group, the company that manages the Duke of Westminster’s wealth.The duke, Hugh Grosvenor, who is to marry Olivia Henson today, inherited his title and control of the historic Grosvenor Estate aged 25 following the death of his father from a heart attack in 2016. The business now encompasses a range of assets and activities, including property in the UK and overseas, investments in food producers and agricultural technology companies and…

Donald Trump is in breach of a British High Court order to pay £300,000 in legal costs to the former spy who compiled a salacious dossier alleging Russian interference in the 2016 US election.Sky News can reveal Trump has failed to comply with the costs order and thus far ignored a formal offer to settle with Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled the infamous document. Trump was ordered to pay costs in February after the High Court threw out his attempt to sue Mr Steele’s company Orbis Business Intelligence.The former president claimed the report, which included unsubstantiated allegations…

The Conservatives will promise a tax cut for parents on Friday by raising the threshold for when families have to pay a levy on their child benefit. The current system means if either parents or a parent’s partner earns more than £60,000, they begin paying the high income child benefit tax charge, and lose the benefit altogether when a salary hits £80,000. But if the Tories win the election on 4 July, they have promised to increase the threshold to £120,000 before any tax is paid, and to £160,000 before the benefit is withdrawn, as well as base it on…

UK entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been cleared of all charges by a US jury in the high-profile fraud case related to the sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.Dr Lynch, who was extradited to the United States to face trial just over a year ago, was acquitted alongside a former finance executive Stephen Chamberlain who had faced the same charges. They were accused of conspiracy and attempted fraud over the £8.3bn sale to HP – a deal that has been the subject of costly legal action since.Money latest: Apple overtaken as world’s second most valuable listed…

A new Hunger Games book is coming – and a film adaptation of it has been confirmed too.Sunrise on the Reaping will be the fifth volume of Suzanne Collins’s best-selling dystopian series and its publication date has been set for 18 March 2025. The book will be set 24 years before the first Hunger Games novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins’ most recent book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, publishers Scholastic announced today.Film studio Lionsgate, which has released all of the Hunger Games movies, then said it will be adapting the book for the…

A game-changing generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot used by hundreds of millions will now stop answering questions on future election results following Sky News reporting. ChatGPT will no longer answer users’ questions about election results for upcoming votes and instead responds, “Sorry, I don’t have information about the results of that election.” Calling it for Labour and Joe BidenIt follows Sky News reporting which showed ChatGPT called the July general election in Labour’s favour and gave a specific seat count.”The 2024 UK general election resulted in a significant victory for the Labour Party,” it said. Labour, it said, “won a…

The next government must deliver “a clear roadmap for tax policy” in order to preserve the competitiveness of Britain’s financial services industry, one of the City’s top lobbying groups has urged.Sky News has seen a general election manifesto prepared by TheCityUK – which represents the financial and professional services sectors – in which it urges the main parties to focus on boosting economic growth through enhanced trade and investment and promoting regulatory stability. The document, which is being released to members of the trade association this week, outlines the priorities of an influential City body which has forged close ties…