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A review into the BBC workplace has ruled out the presence of a “toxic” culture but says improvements could be made.The report recommended the corporation take quicker action when staff step out of line, as well as intervening earlier and being clearer on the standards of behaviour expected from staff. The independent report, sparked by the Huw Edwards scandal, was carried out by Change Associates, the same management consultancy that led a similar review in 2013, following the Jimmy Savile scandal. Image: Huw Edwards was handed a six-month suspended jail sentence in September. Pic: PA The BBC has been under…

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has ordered hundreds of agency workers at its main distribution centre to stay at home as it grapples with the unfolding impact of a cyberattack on Britain’s best-known retailer.Sky News has learnt that roughly 200 people who had been due to undertake shift work at M&S’s vast Castle Donington clothing and homewares logistics centre in the East Midlands have been told not to come in amid the escalating crisis. Agency staff make up about 20% of Castle Donington’s workforce, according to a source close to M&S.Money latest: Vet hits back at critics of pricesThe retailer’s own…

Social media companies will be fined up to £60,000 each time a post relating to knife crime is not removed from their sites in a bid to stop children viewing “sickening” content.The new sanction expands on previously announced plans to fine individual tech executives up to £10,000 if their platforms fail to remove material advertising or glorifying knives following 48 hours of a police warning. It means tech platforms and their executives could collectively face up to £70,000 in penalties for every post relating to knife crime they fail to remove, with the new laws applying to online search engines…

To see Koven’s Katie Boyle perform live is beyond impressive. Hailing from Luton, she is one of the most influential women in drum ‘n’ bass today, an artist who pioneered the art of singing live while DJing. Although she’s now been doing it for 12 years, her vast knowledge doesn’t silence the trolls online. “There is a real bad misogyny online against women,” she says of the industry, with plenty of critics refusing to “believe they’re doing what they say they’re doing, and that’s been quite a hard thing to combat”.Koven is a duo. In the studio, Boyle collaborates with producer Max…

A pack of suitors will table takeover offers on Friday for Poundland, the struggling discount retail giant, as its owner pursues a speedy exit from the British high street.Sky News has learnt that Endless, the turnaround investor, and Hilco Capital, the new owner of Lakeland, are among the bidders expected to lodge indicative proposals for the business ahead of a deadline set by Poundland’s owner. The duo join Alteri Investors, which owns Bensons for Beds, in the auction of Poundland.Money latest: ’14 million Britons on course for parking fine this year’Modella Capital, which has just agreed a deal to buy…

“It has been a success.”Just Stop Oil (JSO) insists it’s been “successful” – as its members ceremoniously hang up their orange high-vis vests during a march in central London. Since the group formed three years ago, it’s drawn attention and criticism for its colourful, controversial protests, which ranged from disrupting sporting events to throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, and climbing on gantries over the M25. It sprayed orange paint over Stonehenge, and cost police forces tens of millions of pounds.Those days are now behind it; to the relief of many.Read moreJSO co-founder wins court appealActivists target grave of…

Laurence Fox has denied sharing a compromising photo of TV star Narinder Kaur on social media.The 46-year-old is alleged to have shared a compromising image in a tweet posted in April 2024 of Kaur, who appears regularly on Good Morning Britain and has previously appeared on GB News.Fox, of Peldon in Essex, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, charged with two counts under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.He is accused in the first count of sharing a “photograph or film of the person in an intimate state intending to cause alarm, distress or humiliation”. The second alleges he sent…

The bosses of four of Britain’s biggest banks are secretly urging the chancellor to ditch the most significant regulatory change imposed after the 2008 financial crisis, warning her its continued imposition is inhibiting UK economic growth.Sky News has obtained an explosive letter sent this week by the chief executives of HSBC Holdings, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Santander UK in which they argue bank ring-fencing “is not only a drag on banks’ ability to support business and the economy, but is now redundant”. The CEOs’ letter represents an unprecedented intervention by most of the UK’s major lenders to abolish…

The government is up for the fight over net zero every hour, day and month of the year, says Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.Amid growing attacks on its climate policies from the Trump administration, UK political parties and some businesses, the government this week reiterated its assertion that clean power will make Britain more secure. Wrapping up a two-day summit on energy security in London, Mr Miliband said: “The critics need to know that if they want to fight about this, this government says ‘bring it on’.”Clean power provides “energy security, lower bills [and] the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st…

In October 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint – with jewellery worth millions of dollars stolen during the audacious heist in Paris. It was the biggest robbery of an individual in France for more than 20 years – and made front pages around the world. Now, almost a decade on, the case is finally coming to court.Why has it taken so long? Will Kardashian give evidence? And who exactly are the “grandpa robbers” facing trial?Here’s everything you need to know. Image: Kardashian at the Siran Presentation on the day of the robbery. Pic: Rex Features What happened?Two years after…