Sky Sources: Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill has launched a formal inquiry into the leak from the National Security Council regarding Huawei and has written to ministers on the council asking them to co-operate
1 year agoUK an UNSC: We condemn President Putin's recent decision on passports All those who care about the territorial integrity of Member States and the principle of non-interference should ask Moscow to stop interfering in its neighbour and to get off its territory
British Foreign Ministry warns citizens not to travel to Sri Lanka due to security situation
1 year agoTyphoons from @RAFConingsby are off on another @NATO mission.
Sri Lankan security sources have told Sky News the bomber who studied in the UK is Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed and that he studied in the south-east of England at some point between 2006 and 2007
Scots should be given the opportunity to vote again on independence before the next Holyrood elections in 2021, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said
Sturgeon says she wants #indyref2 in this parliamentary term. ie before May 2021.
A Downing Street spokesman says Prime Minister Theresa May has told ministers that talks with Labour on Brexit are serious but difficult
President Trump will visit UK from June 3-5 - Buckingham Palace
Britain's Queen Elizabeth says U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted invitation for state visit to UK
"The New IRA" admits responsibility for the death of journalist in Northern Ireland (media)
Derby police: Derby fire. road closures in place at Prime Park Way, Stores Road to the junction with the Vauxhall garage, and Mansfield Road to the junction with Alfreton road. Locals advised to keep their doors and windows closed to reduce their contact with any fumes
1 year agoEMT: There is a fire next to the track north of Derby Station. Train services between Derby/Sheffield and Nottingham/Derby/Matlock are currently disrupted.
Derby explosion: A police station has been evacuated
1 year agoExplosion and fire reported in Stores road area in Derby
The Police Service of Northern Ireland says two men aged 18 and 19 who were arrested by detectives investigating the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry on Thursday have been released without charge
Northern Ireland police arrest two over murder of journalist
1 year agoA crowd has turned out to the Creggan area of Derry after Journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead last night, including @sinnfeinireland's Michelle O'Neill and @DUPleader.
1 year agoThe rioters then appear to have stolen two vehicles, a white van and a black car, and set them on fire at the junction of Fanad Drive and Central Drive.
1 year agoIt was after this that Lyra McKee was shot. A Facebook livestream appears to have filmed this event. You can hear shots, screams, and then the camera turns to point at a person lying on the ground next to a @PoliceServiceNI vehicle.
1 year agoThis appears to be a much more likely origin of the shots that killed Lyra.
Approx 10 shots fired by gunman in Londonderry
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar condemned the killing of Lyra McKee and said: "We cannot allow those who want to propagate violence, fear and hate to drag us back to the past."
An off-duty journalist was killed after shots were fired during rioting in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry overnight, in what police on Friday said was likely the work of militant nationalists opposed to the British region’s 1998 peace deal.
1 year agoPolice say they believe the new IRA is behind a Londonderry "terror attack" in which a journalist was shot dead.
1 year ago29-year old journalist @LyraMcKee shot dead while covering Londonderry riots
1 year agoA journalist has been killed covering riots in Derry. Her name was Lyra McKee. She was 29. She recently signed a two-book deal with Faber, who called her a "rising star of investigative journalism". This is her last tweet, sent from the scene of the unrest.
A journalist, @LyraMcKee, has died tonight in what police are calling a terrorist incident in Londonderry
1 year agoPolice have Fanad Drive in Creggan cordoned off after what appears to be a shooting incident during rioting in Derry
1 year agoLarge crowd has gathered in Creggan Derry tonight as a major security operation is being carried out in Mulroy Gardens. Petrol bombs have been thrown at the end of the street
