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Heterosexual couples in England and Wales will be able to choose a civil partnership over getting married. Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a change to the system, which currently leaves the option open only to same-sex couples.The move will give greater financial protection to cohabiting partners who are currently not eligible for tax reliefs and exemptions for spouses and civil partners, including the inheritance tax exemption and the marriage income tax allowance.The decision comes three months after Rebecca Steinfeld, 37, and Charles Keidan, 41, won a legal bid at the UK’s highest court for the right to have a…

German car giant BMW has told Sky News it is making contingency plans for “all scenarios” when Britain leaves the European Union – including “a hard complicated Brexit”. The company sells around 250,000 cars a year in the UK, which is BMW’s fourth-biggest market after China, the United States and Germany.But BMW has been critical of preparations for Brexit, and those criticisms are now intensifying.Speaking to me at the Paris Motor Show, where BMW is unveiling it crucial new 3-series model, the firm’s chief financial officer Nicolas Peter seemed exasperated when we spoke about Brexit.He said: “Are we disappointed with…

Britain will send a team of experts and humanitarian aid to Indonesia to help with the earthquake and tsunami relief effort as desperate survivors beg for help. International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt told Sky News that the UK had been asked to help and would be sending experts to co-ordinate efforts on the ground.She added: “I have made an initial £2m of UK aid support available to help meet immediate needs of the most vulnerable people.”Meanwhile, Sky News’ defence correspondent Alistair Bunkall has revealed that Britain is considering sending HMS Albion or HMS Argyll to help relief efforts.:: Why Indonesia…

Geoffrey Hayes, who hosted beloved children’s programme Rainbow, has died at the age of 76. The actor and TV presenter died in hospital surrounded by his family after suffering from pneumonia, his agent Phil Dale said.Paying tribute, Mr Dale said: “It is with great sadness that the family announce that Geoffrey passed away from pneumonia in hospital with his wife, Sarah, and son, Tom, by his side.”The family would like to express their thanks to the many fans over the years as it always gave Geoffrey so much pleasure to know that he and his Rainbow team had given so…

Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4m by the City watchdog over a “largely avoidable” cyber attack on the lender, in the first penalty of its kind. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said deficiencies at the bank had left account holders vulnerable to an incident that netted cyber criminals £2.26m.The bank had received a specific warning that was not properly addressed until the attack had started and the response was “too little, too late”, the watchdog concluded.It is the first time the FCA has issued a fine for a cyber-related incident.Tesco Bank said that since the incident in November 2016 it…

Ryanair has cut its full-year profit guidance by as much as 12% – blaming the impact of strikes and oil prices on its bottom line. Shares fell 10% on the warning, which also saw rival easyJet slide by 5% in early trading and British Airways owner International Airlines Group lower too.Ryanair said it expected profits in a range of €1.1-€1.2bn (£980m-£1.1bn), down from previous guidance of €1.25bn-€1.35bn (£.1.1bn-£1.2bn), for the year to the end of March.It warned it could not rule out further downgrades to come and pointed to weaker traffic and lower fares in September caused by two days…

An air traffic controller stayed in his tower to guide a jet into the air as a huge earthquake hit, but died after jumping for his life as the building began to collapse. The pilot whose passenger plane managed to escape the devastation has called him his “guardian angel” and his “wing man”.Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21, was on duty at an airport near the city of Palu when a 7.5 magnitude quake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Friday. Despite the powerful tremor, which triggered a tsunami that claimed hundreds of lives, he refused to leave the tower.”When the quake happened,…

A man who had acid thrown at his face while he sat in his car on a busy street has made a direct plea for information from his hospital bed. Mike Glover-Johnson posted a picture of himself on Facebook wrapped in a facial bandage following the incident on Bloxwich High Street, near Walsall, West Midlands, at around 6.50pm on Sunday.He was sitting in his parked car at the time when he was approached and had a corrosive substance hurled in his face.He was rushed to hospital after suffering facial injuries.In his online post, he wrote: “Any witnesses to me being…

A man has been charged with murdering two women who were stabbed in a Kent village. Jack Ralph, 28, is also charged with attempted murder after a man was taken to hospital with serious injuries during the incident in Hadlow, near TonbridgeOfficers were called by paramedics to a house in Carpenters Lane just after 7.40am on Saturday.Three people were found with injuries “consistent with a stabbing,” police said.Two women in their 50s and 70s died at the scene, while a man, also in his 70s, was taken to hospital in London for treatment. Image: A murder investigation was launched after…

There are fears thousands may have been killed by an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia after the disaster’s death toll rose to 832. The country’s disaster mitigation agency warned the figure could climb higher as the affected area on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is bigger than initially thought.Many people were reported trapped in the rubble of buildings brought down in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake which struck on Friday and triggered tsunami waves as high as six metres (20 feet).Almost all the deaths have been recorded in the coastal city of Palu, where a mass burial will be held. Image:…