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Watch Sky News live as ceasefire begins
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (160+ words) Sky News is an unrivalled, world class breaking news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to news broadcasting. As the UK's first dedicated 24-hour news channel, Sky News has built a deserved reputation for being the first to break major news as well as offering insight and analysis on the latest stories. It is renowned for the speed of its coverage and flexibility of reporting news live across all its platforms - TV, mobile, online, social, connected TV and radio. Friday 10 October 2025 17:25, UK Israel's military has said the ceasefire is now in effect in Gaza. This now sets a timeline of 72 hours for Israeli hostages to be freed, according to the agreed proposal. Friday 10 October 2025 17:25, UK Israel's military has said the ceasefire is now in effect in Gaza. This now sets a timeline of 72 hours for Israeli…...
BBC resignations: Director-general Tim Davie and CEO of BBC News issue statements after resigning
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (1408+ words) Sunday 9 November 2025 18:56, UK Tim Davie's resignation has in "many ways been a long time coming", said our arts and entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer." According to her, Davie had an "incredibly, incredibly difficult year, where he has managed to dodge his way out of quite a few sort of issues that have come to light"." Spencer named Israeli death chants at Glastonbury that were uploaded to the BBC iPlayer, the Gaza documentary, where it emerged that one of the narrators was the child of a member of Hamas, and the edit of Donald Trump's speech in a Panorama documentary. Davie was previously known as 'Teflon Tim' in tabloids due to his ability to shake off such issues, she added." But it seems that he was unable to get through the recent accumulation of scandals. Roger Mosey, a former director of news…...
Israel-Iran conflict | Watch Sky News coverage and Israeli skyline
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (115+ words) Sky News is an unrivalled, world class breaking news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to news broadcasting. As the UK's first dedicated 24-hour news channel, Sky News has built a deserved reputation for being the first to break major news as well as offering insight and analysis on the latest stories. It is renowned for the speed of its coverage and flexibility of reporting news live across all its platforms - TV, mobile, online, social, connected TV and radio. Thursday 19 June 2025 08:23, UK Watch full Sky News coverage and the live skyline in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as fighting between Israel and Iran enters a seventh day...
Donald Trump confirms he will sue the BBC over Panorama edit - despite broadcaster's apology
2+ week, 1+ day ago (441+ words) The BBC officially apologised to the US president for the "error of judgement" on Thursday, but added that "we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim". Saturday 15 November 2025 01:02, UK Donald Trump has said he will sue the BBC for between $1bn and $5bn over the editing of his speech on Panorama. The US president confirmed he would be taking legal action against the broadcaster while on Air Force One overnight on Saturday. "We'll sue them. We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion (792m) and five billion dollars (3.79bn), probably sometime next week," he told reporters. "We have to do it, they've even admitted that they cheated. Not that they couldn't have not done that. They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth." The Daily Telegraph reported earlier this month that an internal memo raised concerns about the…...
Observer editor-in-chief James Harding says BBC should be 'put beyond reach of politicians"
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (705+ words) Editor-in-chief of The Observer, James Harding, a former head of the BBC's news and current affairs programming, says establishing the corporation's independence is critical "if we want to build confidence in shared facts and respect for the truth". Wednesday 20 August 2025 19:06, UK The Observer's editor-in-chief has called for the BBC to be "put beyond the reach of politicians" - and has compared the fight for survival within television to the zombie fungus in The Last Of Us. Speaking to Sky News about his James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday, James Harding said it "is not the golden age of TV, it's more like The Last Of Us" just trying to stay alive as the fungus of new things eats through all of us". The co-founder of Tortoise Media - which bought The Observer from the Scott Trust and…...
Thursday's national newspaper front pages
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (399+ words) Sky News takes a look at the headlines on Thursday's national newspaper front pages. Thursday 24 July 2025 00:34, UK You can watch the Press Preview with Kevin Maguire, columnist at the Daily Mirror, and Angela Epstein, writer and broadcaster, in the video above. We'll be back on Thursday night with a look at Friday's newspapers. The Sun reports on rooms at the Britannia International Hotel in London being "readied for asylum seekers at taxpayers' expense". Police attended the scene of a protest outside the four-star hotel on Tuesday. The Guardian reports on the "grave impact" of food shortages in Gaza. It comes as the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza is suffering "man-made mass starvation" because of an Israeli blockade on aid to the enclave." Ozzy Osbourne told his friends he wanted to spend his final days with his…...
Politics latest: Brown expecting change on two-child benefit cap in budget - and wants one tax to rise
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1401+ words) Speaking to Mornings with Ridge and Frost, former prime minister and chancellor Gordon Brown said he is expecting a change in the two-child benefit cap. He says he wants the tax on gambling to rise to pay for more child poverty spending. Monday 10 November 2025 09:02, UK With the slew of erroneous releases from prisons in recent weeks, months and years, pollsters at YouGov have been asking the public who they hold accountable. And it will be welcome news for the government, as the prison service seem to be copping most of the blame. A total of 19% of the 6,436 people asked on Friday blame the politicians, while 58% blame the prison service. While both Reform and Tory voters are a bit more likely to blame the government than their Labour and Lib Dem peers, all four groups most blame the prison operators. "Sam…...
Culture secretary defends BBC - after leak reveals staff's anger at Tory-linked board member
2+ week, 5+ day ago (812+ words) Lisa Nandy has defended the BBC, saying"some in the House" have suggested the corporation is institutionally biased, but that she disagrees as it is a "light on the hill for people here and across the world". Tuesday 11 November 2025 21:42, UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has defended the BBC as a crisis initiated by an edit of a Donald Trump speech engulfs the corporation. The organisation apologised on Monday after two of its top figures, including director-general Tim Davie, resigned amid concerns about impartiality - notably the editing of a Panorama documentary from October 2024. It aired the week before the US presidential election and showed an edited speech made by Mr Trump before the 2021 Capitol riot, in which he appeared to tell supporters he was going to walk there with them to "fight like hell". Ms Nandy has defended the BBC, saying…...
Leak reveals BBC staff anger at Tory-linked board member as Nandy defends broadcaster
2+ week, 5+ day ago (812+ words) Lisa Nandy has defended the BBC, saying"some in the House" have suggested the corporation is institutionally biased, but that she disagrees as it is a "light on the hill for people here and across the world". Tuesday 11 November 2025 21:42, UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has defended the BBC as a crisis initiated by an edit of a Donald Trump speech engulfs the corporation. The organisation apologised on Monday after two of its top figures, including director-general Tim Davie, resigned amid concerns about impartiality - notably the editing of a Panorama documentary from October 2024. It aired the week before the US presidential election and showed an edited speech made by Mr Trump before the 2021 Capitol riot, in which he appeared to tell supporters he was going to walk there with them to "fight like hell". Ms Nandy has defended the BBC, saying…...
BBC latest: Starmer asked if Trump will get 'single penny' from licence fee payers
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1775+ words) As Donald Trump repeats his threat to sue the BBC over an edit made to his speech before the January 6 riots, Sir Keir Starmer says he believes in a "strong and independent BBC" - but it must "get its house in order". Follow the latest. Wednesday 12 November 2025 14:50, UK The BBC's deputy head of news will address news staff in a meeting this afternoon. Jonathan Munro has taken charge of editorial newsmaking decisions after chief executive Deborah Turness stepped down. The meeting comes after an all-staff call yesterday, in which staff questioned the continued role of former Tory communications director Sir Robbie Gibb on the board. Outgoing director general Tim Davie also said there had been a "weaponisation" of criticism during the meeting. We've got a bit more to bring you now from the House of Commons, where the culture secretary has…...