Author: SKYNEWS

When Martin Greenbank moved into his home in Guildford 15 years ago, he thought it was just right for his growing family.Near a good state secondary school, and with a blooming back garden, where daffodils spring up beneath a cooking apple tree, and lavender and shrubs border his proudly maintained lawn. It would be the perfect place for his children to play – or so he thought.Because, for the last 18 months, “every time it rains moderately”, untreated sewage bursts out of a manhole cover in his back garden, streams across the lawn, along the patio and out through the…

Children first see violent online content at primary school and believe it is “unavoidable”, according to an Ofcom study.All 247 children who the watchdog spoke to said they had seen things such as adult-only video game content, fighting and verbal discrimination. Social media and group chats were the most common way they came across the content, and many said they had seen it when they were below the sites’ minimum age.The sharing of videos showing school fights was normal for many children, according to the study.Others said they had seen more extreme violence – involving gangs for example – but…

The Duchess of Sussex is back on Instagram just days after speaking about the dangers of social media.An unverified account appeared on Thursday featuring a logo, a link to a website where fans can enter their email address to join a waitlist, and a bio that said “by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex”. There was a short video story on the account to the music of Nancy Wilson’s I Wish You Love with rustic scenes of Meghan baking, hands arranging flowers, and a woman in a gown standing at the end of a colonnade.By 9.30pm UK time, the account, which…

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has been fined after pleading guilty to stepping off a trail in a thermal area in Yellowstone National Park.Brosnan, 70, walked in an off-limits area at Mammoth Terraces, in the northern part of Yellowstone near the Wyoming-Montana border, on 1 November last year, according to park officials. Mammoth Terraces is a scenic spot of mineral-encrusted hot springs bubbling from a hillside, with water sometimes at or near boiling point.He had initially pleaded not guilty in January.But on Friday, Brosnan, who called in to the court hearing in Wyoming, was fined $500 (£392) and ordered…

Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel has had his murder conviction overturned, after a London court ruled a juror’s attempts to bribe the trial jury had made the conviction unsafe.The musician, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, has been in a Jamaican jail since 2011 over the disappearance of his associate Clive “Lizard” Williams, whose body has never been found. Kartel and three others were convicted three years later, after a 64-day trial in Kingston, and he was jailed for life with a minimum of 35 years.But last month he and his co-defendants launched an appeal at the Privy Council in…

The US has moved a step closer to banning TikTok with a vote in the House of Representatives. The House has passed a bill that would lead to the app being banned in the US if its Chinese owner does not sell. The legislation will now go to the Senate.But how would a ban work, what would it mean for users – and could something similar happen in the UK?What would the bill mean? The bill would require the Chinese company ByteDance to sell its stake in the US version of TikTok or the app would be effectively banned.White House national…

William Baldwin has hit back at Sharon Stone over her claims she was asked to have sex with the actor by a producer – and threatened to tell “the many disturbing” stories about her.The 66-year-old award-winning actress claims film producer Robert Evans – who died in 2019 – told her to sleep with Baldwin to improve the chemistry on the set of their 1993 movie, Sliver.Stone had first referenced the claims in her 2021 memoir without revealing any identities.But she told the Louis Theroux podcast Evans was “running around his office in sunglasses” and said “I should sleep with Billy…

Air travel chaos that caused delays for more than 700,000 passengers was fuelled by a “lack of planning” and engineers working from home, investigators have said.Hundreds of flights were cancelled and thousands of people were stranded abroad by an air traffic control (ATC) system fault on 28 August last year. It was Bank Holiday Monday, one of the busiest days of the year for air travel.Airlines lost around £100m in refunds, rebookings, hotel rooms and refreshments after air traffic control provider National Air Traffic Services (Nats) suffered a technical glitch while processing a flight plan. Image: Passengers at Heathrow Airport.…

An Australian computer scientist is not ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, the pseudonym attributed to the mysterious person widely credited with creating Bitcoin, a High Court judge has ruled.Dr Craig Wright, who claimed he was Satoshi, was sued by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit group that includes cryptocurrency firms. During the five-week trial, the group claimed he had created an “elaborate false narrative” and forged documents to suggest he was Satoshi and had “terrorised” those who questioned him.Money latest: Britons to see big bill rises in April – here’s how much everything is going up”Dr Wright has consistently failed to…

Gwyneth Paltrow has told Sky News she feels a sense of “satisfaction” in knowing her “instincts were right” regarding her move to becoming a pioneer of wellness, before it became the trillion-dollar industry it is today.The Hollywood A-lister and Oscar winner, who has largely left acting behind after setting up her lifestyle business Goop, has faced some criticism and raised eyebrows about some aspects of the brand, including jade “yoni” vaginal eggs and guides to everything from detoxing to yawning. However, since she launched in 2008, the wellness industry has become big business. Image: Paltrow launched Goop in 2008. Pic:…