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Boris Johnson has admitted he hasn't spoken to Marcus Rashford since June - but has praised the footballer's "terrific" food poverty campaign.

The Welsh health minister has said he was "saddened" after a woman was incorrectly told she could not buy sanitary products at a Tesco store due to the firebreak lockdown.

Seven stowaways who were found on an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight have been arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by threats or use of force.

'Hot Priest' Andrew Scott and actress Sharon D Clarke took home the top prizes at this year's Olivier Awards, in a virtual ceremony held at The London Palladium.

Former Grandstand presenter Frank Bough has died aged 87.

Creatures dreamt up by Harry Potter author JK Rowling are the inspiration behind a new exhibition which will explore the natural, mythical and wizarding worlds.

Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen has hit back at Donald Trump after the US president called him a "creep" and a "phoney guy".

Netflix is celebrating Black History Month by putting together a collection of TV programmes and films to acknowledge the Black British experience.

Boris Johnson has admitted he hasn't spoken to Marcus Rashford since June - but has praised the footballer's "terrific" food poverty campaign.

The Welsh health minister has said he was "saddened" after a woman was incorrectly told she could not buy sanitary products at a Tesco store due to the firebreak lockdown.

Boots plans to roll out a new coronavirus testing service which it says can deliver results in just 12 minutes.

Seven stowaways who were found on an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight have been arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by threats or use of force.

"Zombie batteries" have caused hundreds of fires at waste management facilities and recycling plants, endangering workers' health, according to campaigners.

Prince Harry has described how he had "no idea" what unconscious bias was until "living a day or a week in my wife’s shoes".

France has called on Arab nations to end "baseless" calls for a boycott of its goods - after French President Emmanuel Macron's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Australia has condemned Qatari authorities over "grossly disturbing" reports that women were subjected to invasive strip-searches before a flight from Doha to Sydney.

Spanish police say a gun potentially used to kill Irish journalist Veronica Guerin had been hidden "like a souvenir" in the garden of a drug baron's Costa Blanca villa.

Police in Belarus have fired stun grenades to disperse protesters ahead of a nationwide strike called by opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

There is an inevitability now to Sunday evenings in Minsk.

Astronauts can lose as much as 10% of bone density during six months in space, according to NASA, because there's no gravity for their body to push against.

When Dido Harding returned to her Somerset home by car on Sunday afternoon, she was towing her horsebox.

Boris Johnson has admitted he hasn't spoken to Marcus Rashford since June - but has praised the footballer's "terrific" food poverty campaign.

The Welsh health minister has said he was "saddened" after a woman was incorrectly told she could not buy sanitary products at a Tesco store due to the firebreak lockdown.

It's been another week of political wrangling over the secondary effects of coronavirus, but this weekend brought a serious warning from a different source.

Labour is claiming emergency stocks of some vital COVID-related drugs are running out ahead of a second wave of the pandemic.

A key ally of Brazil's president has been arrested after anti-corruption officers discovered a wad of banknotes in the underpants he was wearing.

A bungling burglar who left behind a rucksack containing his name and address at the scene of a crime has been jailed for four years.

A woman who found a rare two-headed snake in her sunroom has found the reptile a new home.

The new boss of the contact-tracing app has only taken the job for six months, Sky News has learned, raising concerns about the rapid turnover of executives at the top of the troubled Test and Trace programme.

Astronauts can lose as much as 10% of bone density during six months in space, according to NASA, because there's no gravity for their body to push against.

Falling rates of COVID-19 among students could be masking an underlying epidemic, research by Sky News has revealed.

A woman who found a rare two-headed snake in her sunroom has found the reptile a new home.

Police in Belarus have fired stun grenades to disperse protesters ahead of a nationwide strike called by opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

The footwear retailer Clarks is kicking off talks with landlords about store closures and rent cuts, reviving tensions between high street shop-owners and tenants which have been thrust into sharp focus during the COVID-19 crisis.

People told to isolate by the contact-tracing app are not able to claim government financial support, Sky News has learned, raising fears that low-paid workers will be forced to choose between health and hardship.

There is an inevitability now to Sunday evenings in Minsk.

When Dido Harding returned to her Somerset home by car on Sunday afternoon, she was towing her horsebox.