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A total of 125 jobs are to be made redundant after administrators were appointed at one of Britain’s few remaining oil refineries.The losses come despite attempts to find a buyer for the business following the collapse of its owner, energy conglomerate Prax Group, which triggered the receivership process at the Lincolnshire site. A further 255 employees will remain at the site out of 420 directly employed staff and 500 contract workers.Money latest: Common insurance that’s probably a waste of money…At least two bids to buy and operate the location with a full workforce were received, union Unite said. “We understand…

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m (£18.1m) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump after it banned his account following the January 6 Capitol riot.The US president was suspended from the Google-owned platform over his role in the insurrection, which saw his supporters attempt to stop Joe Biden’s 2020 election win from being ratified. More than four years on from the violent scenes that left a police officer dead, court documents filed on Monday revealed that $22m (£16.3m) from the settlement will go towards a trust for Washington DC’s National Mall and the construction of a White House ballroom.The…

Model Penny Lancaster has said she “felt ashamed and belittled” by how former MasterChef host Gregg Wallace treated her on the TV show.Lancaster, who is also a TV personality, and is married to singer Rod Stewart, told Sky News’ The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee programme that she also felt let down by MasterChef’s production company Banijay UK. “I didn’t feel like I was supported in that moment, I felt ashamed and belittled by the way Greg Wallace had treated me but equally I felt disappointed that the production company hadn’t come to my rescue,” Lancaster, 54 and a MasterChef…

Jaguar Land Rover has said it will partially reopen “in the coming days” after being closed for nearly a month. The carmaking plants have been shut since 31 August after being hit by a cyberattack. The attack halted across the car-making supply chain, with staff off work as a result of the attack.More than 33,000 people work directly for JLR in the UK, many of whom are on assembly lines in the West Midlands, with the largest facility located in Solihull, and a plant in Halewood on Merseyside.”Today we are informing colleagues, retailers and suppliers that some sections of our manufacturing…

Fans of digital ID cards argue that they will speed the UK into a digital future by giving everyone a way to prove who they are.What’s confusing about this argument is that we can do that already. We have physical ID cards in the form of passports and driving licences. We also have an extensive system of digital identification and a whole range of laws that require you to prove your identity, sometimes multiple times a week.If you’ve employed someone recently, even for a few days, you’ll know that you have to check their right to work documents, either physically…

Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced over prostitution-related charges next week.The hip-hop mogul has already served just over a year in prison after being arrested in New York in September 2023. Following his high-profile trial earlier in 2025, he was found guilty of two counts of transportation for engagement in prostitution – but cleared of the more serious charges of sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.Combs, 55, was one of the most influential hip-hop producers of the 1990s and 2000s, the founder of Bad Boy Records and a Grammy-winning artist in his own right.Now, he faces up to 20 years…

The government will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) after a mass cyber attack forced a shutdown.JLR suspended production at its UK factories following the attack on 31 August. The shutdown is expected to last until 1 October, leaving the largest UK carmaker’s suppliers in limbo. The loan is expected to give suppliers some certainty amid the continued shutdown, as the £1.5bn will help bolster JLR’s cash reserves as it pays back companies in its supply chain.The government will give its backing to the loan through the Export Development Guarantee (EDG), a financial support mechanism aimed…

Amazon has reached a historic $2.5bn (£1.9bn) settlement with a US business watchdog over allegations it tricked customers into signing up for Prime membership.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused the online giant of tricking customers into the membership scheme – which includes perks like faster delivery – and then making it difficult to cancel. The Seattle-based company will pay $1bn (£750m) in civil penalties, and $1.5bn (£1.1bn) paid back to customers unintentionally enrolled in Prime or deterred from cancelling their subscriptions.Around 35 million Prime customers will be eligible for a payout from the $1.5bn (£1.1bn) fund, the FTC said.Customers who…

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show will return to ABC affiliates belonging to Sinclair and Nexstar after the two major network operators took his programme off-air over his comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.Kimmel was accused of being “offensive and insensitive” after using his programme, Jimmy Kimmel Live, to accuse Donald Trump and his allies of capitalising on the killing. Disney-owned ABC suspended the show last week following threats of potential repercussions from the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission.Sinclair, which controls 38 ABC affiliates from Seattle to Washington DC, called on Kimmel to apologise to Mr Kirk’s…

The energy supplier Ovo is plotting the sale of a stake in its software arm at a ‘unicorn’ valuation as part of efforts to strengthen the balance sheet of Britain’s fourth-largest residential gas and electricity group.Sky News has learnt that Ovo, which has just under four million retail customers, has appointed Arma Partners, the investment bank, to explore options for Kaluza. It replicates a move by larger rival Octopus Energy – revealed by Sky News – to hire advisers to work on a demerger of its Kraken software arm at a potential valuation of well over $10bn (£7.4bn).Kaluza, which describes…