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24 Aug 2026 Sky News

‘Why risk getting charged for murder?’ Life inside the UK’s biggest firearms unit

Several months embedded with MO19, the Metropolitan Police's firearms unit, as a murder charge against one of its officers left colleagues asking whether the job was worth the…

18 Nov 2025 Sky News

‘You don’t realise how fragile life is’: How a punch killed a young British father – but did an attacker evade justice?

Matt Jeffery was killed by a single punch on a stag weekend in Zante. One man was jailed. Our investigation asks whether the man who threw the punch…

15 Aug 2025 Sky News

UK’s trade envoy to Turkey resigns following visit to Northern Cyprus

The MP for Manchester Rusholme, Afzal Khan, has resigned following a trip to the territory, which is not recognised by the British government as a self-declared independent nation.

13 Jan 2025 Sky News

GPS-tagged asylum seeker trial ended with ‘no benefit’, Home Office says

The trial was launched in June 2022 and ran until December 2023, involving 1,200 asylum seekers split into two groups.

4 Sep 2024 Sky News

Grenfell Inquiry: The companies and organisations named and shamed in report

The inquiry, led by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, says failings can be traced back over many years despite "warning signs" about building materials going back to the early 90s.

26 Aug 2024 Sky News

Dagenham fire: Tower block that went up in flames was in the middle of having cladding replaced

Work to replace cladding with new, highly fire-resistant panels had begun, but less than a week ago, the supplier said the project was not complete.

27 Mar 2024 Sky News

Churches ‘brought into disrepute’ over Clapham attacker Abdul Ezedi’s asylum claim, Christian organisation says

Someone converting to Christianity should "renounce their former faith" and "accept that Jesus is the only God", Christian Concern says.

17 Dec 2023 Sky News

‘It’s scary, we have nowhere to go’: The families coming to terms with being homeless this Christmas

Almost 139,000 children in England will wake up this Christmas with nowhere to call home and an uncertain future - as the number of homeless families in temporary…

15 Dec 2023 Sky News

Care worker job scam charging migrants thousands of pounds – as victim speaks out

A 25-year-old victim tells Sky News she was asked to hand over £4,500 while applying for a job as a healthcare assistant - but it later turned out…

5 Dec 2023 Sky News

Afghan migrant says he will still risk Channel crossing with his family even if UK flights send people to Rwanda

Wasir, a former interpreter for British forces in Helmand, has been given hope that his family's journey will be successful by the safe arrival of his younger brother…

13 Nov 2023 Sky News

Increasing number of asylum seekers being granted work permits due to backlogs

Almost 100,000 people have been waiting more than a year for an initial decision on their asylum claim at the end of June this year, according to latest…

12 Oct 2023 Sky News

Two UK Jewish schools close ‘in interests of the safety of our precious children’

It comes as Jewish students were being warned by schools to disguise their uniform because of a fear of retaliatory attacks caused by the ongoing war in Israel.

22 Aug 2023 Sky News

‘There’s a big scam going on’: How people are paying thousands for skilled worker visas for jobs that don’t exist

One woman from Nigeria tells Sky News she paid £10,000 to an "agent" for a skilled worker visa on the promise of work in the UK - only…

22 May 2023 Sky News

‘I have put her as your wife, so take her’: The fake families being smuggled into the UK

While public debate rages about small boat crossings via the English Channel, a legal route into the UK is being used for people smuggling. Sky News investigates how…

24 Feb 2023 Sky News

Ukraine war: Daughter recalls mother being shot dead as they walked together in war-torn Bucha – ‘there was blood everywhere’

Tetiana Sichkar, 20, bravely returned to the site where her mother was shot dead on the edge of a forest in Bucha nine months ago - as she…

23 Feb 2023 Sky News

Ukraine war: The last resident in his badly-damaged block of flats endures extraordinary hardship and says ‘I have nowhere else to go’

Anatolii Lymarenko, 61, has a face worn by war. It is a hard climb to the seventh-floor place he still calls home. The view from every window is…

22 Feb 2023 Sky News

Ukraine war: Amputee soldiers vow to return to battlefield

One soldier tells Sky News: "There is not a single day, not a single minute that I regret volunteering to serve. Yes, it was dangerous, but I will…

2 Jan 2023 Sky News

Pelé Memorial: Return of The King

Many had waited for hours overnight and come from all over the world, to file past the open casket of the footballing icon who was brought to his…

30 Oct 2022 Sky News

How did Seoul Halloween celebration turn into a deadly crush?

Live streams and videos from social media provide extra detail as to how a Halloween celebration turned disastrous in the South Korean capital.

1 Jul 2022 Sky News

Ukraine war: a captured Azovstal defender’s mother waits for news

On the outskirts of Kyiv, Alla Samoilenko is waiting for news of her son Ilia, one of the famous faces of the Azov Regiment, captured when the Azovstal…

9 May 2022 Sky News

Ukraine war: Defying the Russian missile bombardment to care for 600 dogs and 100 cats

Hundreds of missiles landed around the animal shelter near Kyiv but Maxim and Asya stayed open and gave local animals much-needed refuge.

5 May 2022 Sky News

Ukraine war: Husband vows to continue killed wife’s rescue work in ‘this pointless war’

Oleg and Yulia Koval were helping people flee Ukraine's second-largest city when a Russian missile exploded near their car.

4 May 2022 Sky News

Ukraine war: The children living, learning and growing up in Kharkiv’s underground metro station

Sky News gets a glimpse of the harrowing impact the war is having on children who have barely seen the sky for months.

27 Apr 2022 Sky News

Ukraine war: Putin is ‘Satan in human form’, says priest, as firefighters losing battle to save Kharkiv and patients treated in corridors

In the local hospital, medics treat victims in the corridors, partly because they are so busy but mainly because they want to keep them away from the windows…