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Virgin Trains has joined forces with Uber to make it easier for passengers to book a cab to and from a railway station. Customers will be given the option to receive a text message with a link to book an Uber to the station – and another at their destination station.Passengers booking a taxi will be eligible for 50% off their first Uber journey up to a maximum value of £10.The deal does not apply to the return leg of the journey.Opponents say the scheme puts the livelihoods of regular taxi drivers at risk – and comes at a time…

Bosses of companies that make nuisance calls could be fined up to £500,000 under proposals to make them personally liable for breaking the law. A consultation has been launched after the government’s initial plan to implement the measure in 2016 was delayed.Currently, only the businesses themselves are liable for fines of up to £500,000, but the new measure will grant the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) the power to hold the boss directly responsible for paying the penalty.A company is breaking the law if it makes cold calls to people who have subscribed to the Telephone Preference Service – a central…

Lawyers for 400 Rohingya refugees are to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Myanmar military. The refugees are arguing that without getting justice for what has happened to them, the crimes will continue and spread to other ethnic groups.Senior diplomats from the 15-member security council travelled to Bangladesh earlier this month to see first-hand the situation of the 700,000 Rohingya refugees who fled there from Myanmar military abuses.:: Explained: The Rohingya refugee crisis Image: Lawyers intend to argue that the ICC should investigate Image: 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh The UK ambassador Karen Pierce said…

Young men in the North are living shorter lives than those in the South, with an alarming rise in deaths caused by drugs, alcohol and suicide, a major study has revealed. With the help of researchers at Manchester University, Sky News has built up a comprehensive picture of a health divide that exists between the North and the South of England.It also shows that as well as cancer and heart disease, the big killers of young men aged between 25 and 44 in the North are alcohol, drugs and suicide.Researchers say that since 1965, about 1.2 million more people have…

Dixons Carphone has announced plans to close 92 stores this year as its troubled mobile phone business continues to face “challenges”. The high street giant said its Carphone Warehouse division remained under pressure, partially due to customers shunning handset upgrades and going “Sim-only”.However, a spokeswoman told Sky News no jobs were expected to be affected and insisted staff would be redeployed and offered the chance to move to nearby larger outlets.The store closures will add to the pain on the high street, with Dixons Carphone adding its name to the long list of retailers – Carpetright, Mothercare, Byron and others…

Starbucks is closing more than 8,000 stores across the US on Tuesday as staff undergo racial awareness training. It comes after the coffee firm apologised to two black men who were arrested while waiting for someone in a Starbucks outlet in Philadelphia.Bosses apologised for the April incident before meeting the two men and pledging to carry out training “geared towards preventing discrimination”. 1:49 Video: Starbucks racism videos: What we know But there was further embarrassment for the company when a video also emerged of a separate incident in which a black man says he was denied entry to a Starbucks…

Footage has emerged of a police officer punching a woman in the head on a Jersey Shore beach. The video shows the officer striking the 20-year-old woman, wearing a swimsuit and hotpants, twice after pinning her down on the sand on Saturday.People can be heard shouting “stop resisting” at the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey.One officer can been seen kneeling by the woman as they get her on her back while another pulls her legs straight.A number of officers have been reassigned to administrative duty while the incident is investigated. Image: An officer is seen punching the woman on the…

England forward Raheem Sterling has defended his new M16 assault rifle tattoo after it was branded “disgusting” by an anti-gun campaigner. The 23-year-old, who plays for Premier League champions Manchester City, posted a picture of himself training with his England teammates at St George’s Park.The tattoo of an assault rifle on his right calf clearly visible. Lucy Cope, who founded Mothers Against Guns after her son Damian was shot dead outside a club in central London in July 2002, said the ink was “totally unacceptable”. Image: Sterling plays for Premier League side Manchester City She told The Sun: “We demand…

More than 20,000 children are classed as severely obese when they leave primary school, according to new figures. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, has obtained statistics which it says show children are rapidly gaining weight as they go through school.And it warns the severe child obesity rates are contributing to a “multi-billion pound ill-health time bomb”.The first data of its kind for 2016/17, supplied by the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), shows a total of 22,646 out of 556,452 (4.1%) of 10 and 11-year-olds in Year 6 are classed as severely obese.This…

The destruction of the Yarmouk District in Damascus could be a visual metaphor for Syria’s long and brutal war. The area is smashed up beyond belief – a panorama of wreckage, street after battered street.The neighbourhood was the so-called Islamic State’s last stronghold in the capital – the terror group overran the area in 2015 but the regime lost it in 2012 at the start of the rebellion. Image: Those coming back are looking over where their homes once stood The last batch of militants were evacuated last week – it means that the capital Damascus, after seven years of…