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So little money has been set aside by the NHS for the rollout of the Mounjaro weight-loss jab in GP surgeries that as few as one in five people with life-threatening obesity is likely to get treatment, new research shows.The NHS estimates that around 220,000 people living with obesity will be eligible for treatment through their GP over the next three years. But Freedom of Information requests by the British Medical Journal revealed that funding from NHS England has fallen well short of what is needed for the rollout.Just nine out of 40 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) in England said…

Britain’s biggest holiday parks operator is lining up an American investment firm to provide hundreds of millions of pounds of funding firepower as it eyes opportunities to consolidate the market.Sky News has learnt that Centerbridge Partners, which has more than $50bn in assets under management, is in talks to inject roughly £250m into Parkdean Resorts. The funding, which would be provided as debt, has yet to be finalised, with sources close to Parkdean saying on Friday that other parties remained interested in leading the deal.Money blog: UK airport ranked worst for fourth year in a rowParkdean operates 65 sites across…

A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen” has officially pleaded guilty to selling Friends star Matthew Perry the drug that killed him.Jasveen Sangha initially denied the charges but agreed to change her plea in a signed statement in August, just a few weeks before she had been due to stand trial. The 42-year-old, a dual citizen of the US and the UK, has now appeared in a federal court in Los Angeles to plead guilty to five charges, including supplying the ketamine that led to Perry’s death.She faces up to 65 years in prison after admitting one count of maintaining…

Fashion giant Shein has opened an investigation after a shirt was advertised on its site, modelled by a man bearing a striking resemblance to Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a US healthcare chief executive.The image with Mangione’s likeness, wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt, has since been taken down. Shein, one of the world’s biggest fast fashion retailers, told Sky News: “The image in question was provided by a third-party vendor and was removed immediately upon discovery.”We have stringent standards for all listings on our platform. We are conducting a thorough investigation, strengthening our monitoring processes, and will take…

Harrods is to remove sculptures of Mohamed al Fayed who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting dozens of women.The famous store in Knightsbridge, west London, has submitted a planning application to renovate a detailed Egyptian-themed hall and replace a five-floor escalator which features busts depicting former owner Fayed as a pharaoh. The application acknowledges “the Egyptian Escalator explicitly celebrates Mr al Fayed, including sixteen huge sculptures of his face”, adding that they represent “a visual reminder of his misdeeds”.It adds: “Obituaries, while referring to his extraordinary business career, characterised him as a liar, a fantasist and an aggressive sexual…

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his officers should not be “policing toxic culture wars debates” as he responded to his force’s arrest of Father Ted writer Graham Linehan over anti-trans posts.The UK’s top police officer said his officers are in an “impossible position”, adding that he has offered to provide suggestions to the Home Office about clarifying the law and policy within weeks. “Greater clarity and common sense would enable us to limit the resources we dedicate to tackling online statements to those cases creating real threats in the real world,” he said.Explainer: What you can’t say…

A US federal judge has ordered a major makeover of Google’s search engine in a crackdown aimed at addressing the damaging effects of monopolistic practices.In an effort to curb Google’s influence, Washington DC Judge Amit Mehta has introduced new limitations on how the company directs traffic to its search engine. He is requiring the tech giant to grant current and potential competitors access to key elements of its search engine, including the vast data collected from trillions of queries that enhance the quality of its results.However, the judge rejected the government’s more ambitious bid to split up the company, and…

More than a thousand high street jobs will be put at risk this week when Bodycare, the health and beauty retailer, is forced to call in administrators.Sky News has learnt that Bodycare, which was founded on a Lancashire market stall more than half a century ago, is expected to appoint administrators from Interpath Advisory as soon as Friday. Bodycare, which specialises in selling fragrances, toiletries, cosmetics and skincare products, employs about 1,500 people and trades from nearly 150 stores across the country.The chain’s collapse into insolvency proceedings is likely to trigger a further effort by Interpath to find a buyer…

Graham Greene, the Canadian First Nations actor best known for his performance in Dancing With Wolves, has died aged 73.The star died peacefully after a long illness. His agent Michael Greene (not a relation) said he loved everything the actor “did for his people and for all the world” in a statement sent to Sky News.”He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed…God bless his beautiful soul.”Greene was a “trailblazer” who opened doors for indigenous actors in Hollywood, US entertainment outlet Deadline reported. He made his screen debut in an episode of the…

“AI has changed my life, absolutely,” Lucas Horne tells Sky News. “When I play my music, I’m happy because the words I know mean a lot to me can now be heard by everyone else.”Lucas was 17 when, in December 2016, with no warning, he suffered a large, traumatic bleed across his brain. He didn’t wake up until almost four months later.Unknowingly, he had been living with a defect in the blood vessels known as an AVM (arteriovenous malformation), a ticking time bomb which had ruptured, and the next three years of his life were spent in recovery in a…