Michael Gove has insisted he has "evolved" as a politician since previously stating he was "incapable" of being prime minister.

A number of revellers "collapsed" after they were forced to queue for hours to get through security gates at a London festival.

A businesswoman is set to become the first black person to lead an Oxbridge college after she was elected Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

A British man has died after a collision between two yachts near the French city of Cannes.

Police have charged a man and a woman with two counts of murdering two teenage boys at a house in Sheffield on Friday.

Tom Hanks has shared his excitement ahead of his favourite team Aston Villa's clash with Derby County on Monday.

Lord Bilimoria, the cross-bench peer who founded Cobra beer and backs a second EU referendum, is being lined up as the next president of the CBI.

A fourth person has been charged with the murder of girl scout Jodie Chesney, who was stabbed to death on 1 March.

A teacher whose lessons on LGBT relationships have been met with protests is leading Birmingham Pride this weekend.

New technologies including video calls are being used in a trial in Manchester to help reduce the strain on stretched NHS services.

Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom have become the latest Tory MPs to formally announce their intention to succeed Theresa May.

A British climber has become the latest to die on Mount Everest - where 10 people are said to have died in the last few weeks.

Police are searching for a mugger who held a knife to a toddler's throat while robbing the child's grandmother in Middlesbrough.

Two boys aged 13 and 14 have died after a "serious incident" at a property in Sheffield, police say.

Eight migrants have been found in a boat in the Channel heading towards the Kent coast and taken to immigration centres.

Five senior Tories are in the race to take over from Theresa May, with Matt Hancock being the latest to confirm he will bid for the top job.

The Duchess of Sussex will not join the rest of the Royal Family in welcoming Donald Trump to the UK for his state visit.

More than 1,100 people arrested over the Extinction Rebellion protests that brought parts of central London to a standstill should be prosecuted, police…

Tributes are being paid to a nine-year-old boy who died after a locker fell on him at a school in Essex.

The number of forced marriage cases dealt with by a specialist British unit tackling the issue leapt to a record high last year.

A newborn baby was found abandoned at the entrance of a hospital in Kent on Friday morning.

Four brave police officers have told how they fought off a knife attacker after being lured to a house following a bogus emergency call.

Theresa May's decision to include her response to the Grenfell Tower fire in her resignation speech has been branded "disgraceful" by firefighters.

The details for Donald Trump's upcoming three-day state visit to the UK next month have been revealed.

Princess Charlotte will join her brother Prince George at Thomas's Battersea school in September this year, Kensington Palace says.

A banned driver who crashed a van into a house killing a 90-year-old woman inside has been jailed for four years.

People who were forced to leave their homes after a World War Two bomb was found nearby may have to spend a second night in temporary accommodation.

The ex-partner of a man who died after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show says she is being bullied by online trolls.

Theresa May is expected to fire the starting gun on a Tory leadership race imminently by confirming her plans to stand down as prime minister.

A serving Metropolitan Police officer is facing a lengthy prison term in the Caribbean after he was convicted of raping a woman.

Some international students may have been wrongly accused of cheating in English language tests and, in some cases, unfairly removed from the UK, according…

A convicted murderer has been found guilty in a historical rape case in south London after his victim recently discovered he was the biological father…

NHS England has made a revised offer to the manufacturer of cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi, a treatment which families and campaigners say could…

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly couple were found dead in their west London flat.

A statue of footballing legend George Best which was unveiled to mark what would have been his 73rd birthday has attracted ridicule on social media. 

A women-only pond is to be opened up to transgender women who will have unlimited access.

A former Southampton and Peterborough youth football coach has been found guilty of 45 charges of indecent assault against teenage boys.

A man who was on a night out with friends on the evening of the London Bridge terror attack ended up with shrapnel wounds from police bullets as he…

UK gangs are keeping "scoreboards" of knife and gun violence as part of a brutal game fuelled by YouTube videos in which they brag about their crimes.

Millions of people are expected to clog the country's roads this bank holiday weekend, with the weather set to turn cooler over the three-day break.

Pupils have written to campaigners asking them not to "disturb us" as demonstrations continue over the teaching of LGBT lessons.

People are being advised to keep their doors and windows closed as a fire continues to burn at a warehouse in north London.

A lack of public toilets in the UK is forcing many people to stay at home, threatening the health and mobility of the nation, a report has warned.

Four makes of smoke alarm being sold online have completely failed to work in testing by consumer group Which?.

Giving free social care to the over-65s could save the NHS £4.5bn every year, a leading think tank has said.

A senior Brexiteer minister has resigned from the cabinet, in what could prove to be a fatal blow to Theresa May's premiership.

A 68-year-old man has been jailed for five years and four months for blowing up his home while his wife was inside.

A former banker has spoken of becoming a quadruple amputee at the age of 38 after being struck down with sepsis, or blood poisoning, following a slow…

The father of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack has blamed MI5 for not tracking bomber Salman Abedi despite reports of…

Women are being "forced into selling sex" because they have few other options and live in fear of the state, an MP has warned.

A decorated veteran from the British Army has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison after admitting to arranging for children in the…

Road rage killer Kenneth Noye is to be released from prison after a Parole Board panel concluded he was "suitable for return to the community".

A Jeremy Kyle Show guest who died in a suspected suicide was worried about the repercussions of his appearance, an inquest has heard.

An 80-year-old man has been seriously injured after being pushed over by a driver and knocked unconscious in a "nonsensical attack".

Theresa May has made a personal plea to Jeremy Corbyn to back her Brexit deal following a backlash over her "bold" new offer to MPs.

A survivor of the Manchester bombing has called on the British military to go and capture the bomber's brother, who is still awaiting extradition in…

Ministers have been urged to act "quickly and effectively" to ensure greater protection for thousands of modern slavery victims across the UK.

The tour manager of JLS star Oritse Williams has told a jury how he tried to start a threesome to alleviate "cringey" sex as the singer allegedly raped…

A Bond actor was killed by an overdose of a chemsex drug after hooking up with a fraudster who used Grindr to target gay men for their belongings,…

A woman with a history of mental illness beat a 64-year-old grandmother to death in her own garden and left her body underneath a stone bird bath,…

CCTV footage has been released showing Aron Kato, who has been missing for a month, being chased and pushed to the ground by an unidentified man.

Women are being driven to "survival sex" as a direct result of welfare policy changes, the Work and Pensions Committee will hear.

ITV has asked for more time to report back on the death of a participant following his appearance on the now-cancelled Jeremy Kyle Show.

A police chief has said there is "no place" for protests outside a primary school that has been teaching children about LGBT issues.

Well over 1,000 jobs are at risk as the restaurant chain set up by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver crashes into administration just two years after…

Football fans have been left furious after discovering the seats they bought for matches in the Women's World Cup aren't together.

The standard 10-minute GP appointment is "unfit for purpose" and should be extended to at least 15 minutes, the Royal College of GPs has said.

People with learning disabilities and autism face lengthy periods of seclusion and “punitive care” on mental health units that are “not…

Guns, swords and machetes were seized as police arrested almost 600 suspected members of county lines drug gangs in just a week.

Bright youngsters whose disadvantaged backgrounds would normally rule them out of a prestigious higher education place are being targeted by new schemes…

An MP and a protester have clashed in the street over a Birmingham primary school that teaches LGBT issues to children.

A team has been working to stop oil leaking from a British tanker sunk off the US coast during World War Two.

A junior doctor begged to be let out of a restaurant during the London Bridge terror attack, telling staff: "I can't watch them die."

A "grossly intoxicated" driver has been jailed for eight years and four months for killing three people while driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway…

A driver has been described as the "luckiest man in the world" after he escaped serious injury when a lorry's wheel came off on the motorway and smashed…

JLS star Oritse Williams called a rape allegation against him "crazy" and said he was left "bewildered" by the claim, a jury heard.

Sir Rod Stewart has donated £10,000 to a model railway club after its collections were trashed by vandals.

Road rage killer Kenneth Noye will learn if he will be freed from jail this week.

Hundreds of patients at a dental surgery have been told to take HIV tests over fears unclean equipment was used on them.

Legends from the world of tennis have told Sky News that they hope Andy Murray will make a return to the sport following his hip surgery earlier in…

Families forced to use food banks in the UK are being denied a fundamental human right, according to a new report.

Hundreds of children with autism or a learning disability are admitted to mental health hospitals where they can suffer "nightmare" failures of care,…

Racing driver Billy Monger has celebrated his first victory since a near-fatal crash cost him both of his legs.

Knife crime and gang culture has left a quarter of young people feeling unsafe where they live, according to research given exclusively to Sky News.

A man is in a critical condition after being shot in the stomach in a barber shop.

A woman who was badly injured in the Manchester bomb attack and lost her eight-year-old daughter in the atrocity has defied the odds to complete the…

52 migrants have been intercepted by border force boats off the coast of Kent by UK Border Force officials this weekend.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a new £10m plan to plant more than 130,000 trees in towns and cities in England.

The rail industry has been urged to make sure there is no repeat of the chaos that occurred when the network's timetable changed last May.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has said he is leaving the club, the day after the team won a historic domestic treble.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have celebrated their first year of marriage by releasing a set of previously unseen behind-the-scenes photographs from…

Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson has branded as "a lie" claims he was a Cold War spy who passed government secrets to communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.

The Duchess of Cambridge has said she can "understand" how the "sense of isolation" felt by new parents "can quickly become overriding and debilitating".

The rapper Tyler, The Creator has posted a picture of himself outside Buckingham Palace in London for the first time since he was banned from the UK…

An east London soft drinks company - set up as part of a community art project – is "empowering" people to understand the effort that goes into…

A new campaign is asking schools to pledge to go mobile phone free.