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The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma is being tested in British patients.The “gamechanger” jab also has the potential to stop bladder, lung and kidney cancer. It’s custom built for each person and tells the body to identify cancer cells and stops the disease returning.A stage-two trial found it significantly reduced the risk of cancer coming back in melanoma patients and now a final trial has been launched.University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is leading the phase. Dr Heather Shaw, co-ordinating investigator of the trial, said it was “one of the most exciting things we’ve seen…

Sainsbury’s has claimed it is winning over customers from its rivals after reporting higher than expected profits.The country’s second-largest supermarket chain announced its underlying pre-tax profits were £701m for the 2022/23 financial year. The figure is up 1.6% on the previous year’s haul of £690m – and ahead of company forecasts that it would make between £670m and £700m.The financial results came as the chain again suffered disruption to online deliveries due to a technical glitch on Thursday.Shoppers complained on social media that their deliveries had been delayed or cancelled. A Sainsbury’s spokeswoman blamed “a small technical issue”, and added:…

Nestle, the world’s biggest packaged food company, has reported a fall in sales after hiking its prices.The KitKat and Nescafe maker missed first-quarter sales estimates, the company revealed on Thursday, with business particularly hit in North America. Total reported sales dropped by 5.9% internationally to 22.1bn Swiss Francs (£19.4bn) in the first three months of 2024, compared to the same period the year before.Prices were up 3.4% globally and 4.6% in Europe.Nestle said its Purina PetCare range was a strong driver of growth during the quarter, while there was an overall fall in drinks sales, including its Coffee Mate brand.…

Barclays has reported a 12% fall in profits for the first three months of the year after mortgage lending and deposits dipped.The high street banking giant reported a group pre-tax profit of £2.3bn for the quarter, down 12% from the £2.6bn it made during the same period last year. However, the figure was slightly above analysts’ expectations of £2.2bn, helping Barclays shares to rise more than 4% in early trading on Thursday.It comes after rival Lloyds Banking Group reported earlier this week that its pre-tax profits fell 28% during the same period.Barclays said income from its UK operations fell 7%…

A former top Post Office executive has told the Horizon scandal inquiry she never “knowingly” did anything wrong and did not remember a 2010 email saying that cash balances in sub-postmasters’ branch accounts could be remotely accessed. Angela van den Bogerd, who held various roles over 35 years at the organisation, made the comments after opening her evidence on Thursday by saying she was “truly, truly sorry” for the “devastation” caused to wrongly convicted sub-postmasters. Her roles at the Post Office included handling complaints about its Horizon software, which was provided by Japanese firm Fujitsu.More than 700 Post Office managers…

Labour have promised to renationalise nearly all passenger railways within their first term if they win the next election. But will it leave the railways better off?On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky’s political correspondent Sam Coates to discuss the details of Labour’s plan and assess if a Great British Railway would be more efficient and cost-effective than the current privatised system. Niall also speaks to the editor of Rail magazine Nigel Harris about the current state of our railways and what he believes needs to change.Elsewhere in politics, the Scottish government has ended its power-sharing agreement with the…

One of Britain’s biggest double-glazing suppliers has crashed into administration, leaving insolvency practitioners engaged in a race to salvage hundreds of jobs.Sky News has learnt that Everest, which has been owned by the prominent financier Jon Moulton’s investment firm Better Capital for more than a decade, called in administrators this week. ReSolve, a professional services firm, has been appointed to handle the process.Sources said it was now engaged in an attempt to find a buyer for Everest in order to save as many of the company’s roughly-350 employees’ jobs as possible.Money latest: Morrisons shoppers are going to notice two changes…

Cows in the UK are not being tested for bird flu, despite the outbreak sweeping through American dairy herds, Sky News has been told.The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said reports of the H5N1 virus in UK birds and poultry are currently so low that it does not consider cattle to be at risk. Scientists believe the H5N1 virus has been spreading in US dairy herds undetected for several months.It is also spreading between cows, and viral fragments have been found in pasteurised milk, according to the US Department of Agriculture.Transmission between mammals is a red flag…

Unions have warned of a bitter fight ahead, saying their plans to avert thousands of job losses at Tata Steel have been rejected by the company.Tata had announced in January a consultation on cutting up to 2,800 jobs in the UK, the majority of them at the country’s biggest steelworks in Port Talbot, South Wales. It followed confirmation that the Indian-owned firm wanted to close down the blast furnaces at the plant and replace them with electric arc furnaces under a plan to reduce emissions and costs.GMB, Unite and Community union representatives met Tata counterparts at a London hotel to…

TikTok has promised a court battle over a new law that threatens to ban it in the US – with the app’s boss saying “we aren’t going anywhere”.President Joe Biden approved the law that states the platform will be blocked if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell it within nine months. US politicians are worried the company could share user data with the Chinese government, despite repeated assurances from TikTok that it would not. Spreaker This content is provided by Spreaker, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to…