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Plummeting temperatures could turn heavy rain to snow in some parts of the UK on Monday, days after the UK saw a short-lived heatwave. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for heavy rain and strong winds across much of eastern, southeastern and central England.Meteorologists are predicting spray and flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and some road closures. Image: Up to 70mm of rain could fall in some places Trains and buses could also be affected with the Met Office warning of possible delays or cancellations.It also said there was a “small chance” homes and businesses could…

Ministers have announced plans to crack down on a business loophole which has been used by overseas criminals to launder dirty foreign money. Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs) were first created in 1907 for farm holdings, but ministers say their legal structure makes them attractive money laundering vehicles for international crime groups.Government research shows one laundering scheme used 100 SLPs to move up to £60bn out of Russia.They have also been linked to criminal networks in Eastern Europe and allegedly used in international arms trafficking deals.While SLPs are used by thousands of legitimate businesses – particularly in the private equity and pensions…

North Korea plans to shut its nuclear testing site in May and reveal the process to the outside world, South Korea has said. Announcing the pledge, Seoul said North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has said Donald Trump will get to know he is “not a person” to aim missiles at US.”Kim said he would carry out the closing of the nuclear test site in May, and would soon invite experts of South Korea and the US to disclose the process to the international community with transparency,” Seoul’s presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan said.Mr Kim made the comment during Friday’s summit…

J Sainsbury and Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest supermarket retailer, are in advanced talks about a shock £10bn tie-up that would create ‎a more powerful rival to Tesco, the current UK market leader. Sky News exclusively revealed on Saturday that the two companies are in negotiations about combining Wal-Mart’s Asda business with Sainsbury’s, in a deal that would send shockwaves through the entire British retail industry.Following the story, Sainsbury’s released a statement confirming the groups were in advanced talks.It said: “J Sainsbury plc notes the speculation concerning a possible combination with Asda Group Limited. Sainsbury’s confirms that it and Walmart Inc…

North Korea has hailed its summit with the South as a “historic meeting” that now paves the way for the start of a new era. The new optimism comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in pledged to pursue denuclearisation and a permanent peace.The North’s official KCNA news agency carried the text of the leaders’ Panmunjom Declaration in full and said the agreement opened the way “for national reconciliation and unity, peace and prosperity”.In the document, the two leaders “confirmed the common goal of realising, through complete denuclearisation, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula”. Image: The…

The end of Alfie Evans’ brief life just short of his second birthday is a tragedy for his parents, who devoted themselves to his care. He spent 17 months on the intensive care unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.His death however, has been a subject of fierce public debate in the UK, the United States and beyond.At its heart are questions about the rights of the child, the limits of parental responsibility, and how best to untangle the knot of ethical and medical issues.In most cases, the fate of a terminally ill child is resolved without publicity or debate. Doctors…

Eight of the 10 people killed in the Toronto van attack on Monday were women, police have confirmed. Inspector Bryan Bott has released the names of the victims who died when Alek Minassian mowed down pedestrians on a busy central street.Toronto police announced those killed were “predominately” female after reports suggested the attacker had a grudge against women.Minassian appears to have belonged to the “Incel” movement, which represents men who blame women for their inability to have sex or form relationships. Victims of Yonge Street Tragedy officially identified at press conference by Toronto Police Homicide Inspector Bryan Bott & Ontario…

The United States is “not going to be played” when it comes to talks with North Korea, Donald Trump has warned. Speaking while welcoming German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House for talks, he said discussions between the North and South had “never gone this far” after the two nations agreed on “complete denuclearisation”.However, Mr Trump also said his leadership meant US talks with North Korea would “be different” this time around. The American President is said to be deciding between two or three locations for a summit in the coming weeks.It comes after he expressed his delight as…

It was only a coincidence – but the publication of lacklustre GDP data on the same day Travis Perkins updated investors on current trading will have made the builder’s merchant’s task easier. For what they show is that the business actually appears to be defying the current gloom engulfing the construction sector.While the latter suffered a 3.3% quarter-on-quarter contraction during the first three months of the year, Travis Perkins actually enjoyed a highly creditable 3% rise in its like-for-like sales, driven by a remarkable 19.7% increase in its plumbing and heating division, which includes the City Plumbing Supplies, City Heating…

No excuses. Try as one might to blame the weather for the weakness of these GDP figures, to judge from what we have just heard from the Office for National Statistics, the economy was starting to sag well before the Beast from the East came in and disrupted UK economic activity.Consumers – the engine of the UK economy for decades – have been spending less and less in recent quarters.The services sector, which grew by around 2% a year in 2015 and 2016, is now growing by around 1% a year. Image: Snowy weather in February and March exacerbated the…