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Police must increase their use of stop and search to help combat a rise in violent crime, a senior officer has said. Sara Thornton, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, says that while the power may have been used too freely in the past, the “pendulum has now swung in the opposite direction”.Ms Thornton’s intervention comes amid concern about violent crime in London.The Metropolitan Police has opened 55 murder investigations this year. Among these is the investigation into the death of teenager Tanesha Melbourne-Blake, 17, who was killed in Tottenham on Monday.There were six non-fatal stabbings in the capital…

A photographer has died a day after being shot while covering protests on the Israel-Gaza border. Video images show Yaser Murtaja, a cameraman for Palestinian Ain Media, was wearing a “press” flak jacket as he was led away on a stretcher.Health officials said a bullet had penetrated the side of his chest and he died of his injuries in hospital on Saturday.The 30-year-old was one of nine people killed and more than 1,000 injured by Israeli troops in another day of bloody clashes on the Gaza border. Image: Protesters set alight tyres to create a smoke screen from sniper fire…

The British luxury car-maker Aston Martin is lining up a trio of banks to lead a prospective £4bn stock market listing that could take place within months. Sky News has learnt that the manufacturer of James Bond’s vehicle of choice is close to hiring Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as the global co-ordinators for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).The appointment of the three investment banks is understood to have been recommended by board members and is awaiting sign-off from Aston Martin’s two Italian and Kuwaiti shareholders, according to insiders.If confirmed, the move will see Deutsche, Goldman and JPM…

A man has been arrested over the shooting dead of 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake in Tottenham on Monday. She was killed in north London on 2 April amid a recent rise in murders in the capital – most of them involving knives.Police believe the shots were fired into a group of people from a car.A 30-year-old was arrested in the east of the city on Friday morning on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody at a London police station.Officers were called to Chalgrove Road at 9.35pm on Monday and found Tanesha with a gunshot wound.Despite efforts to save her, she…

Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition following last month’s nerve agent attack, Salisbury District Hospital says. The former Russian double agent is “responding well to treatment” and is “improving rapidly”, said Dr Christine Blanshard, medical director at the hospital.The 66-year-old and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been under the watch of medics since they were attacked with novichok at their home in Salisbury, Wiltshire.The pair were rushed to hospital after shoppers found them collapsed on a bench at The Maltings shopping centre on 4 March. Video: Yulia Skripal thanks the people of Salisbury On Thursday, Ms Skripal…

Poisoned spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his daughter says her strength is “growing daily”. Just a few weeks ago they were seemingly on the brink of death – so how did they survive? Alastair Hay, Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Leeds University, tells Sky News how they may have fought off the novichok nerve agent and managed a “miracle” recovery.:: But first, how dangerous is novichok really?”The nerve agents are deadly,” says Prof Hay.”That’s why they were chosen as chemical weapons. If you are exposed to a number of lethal doses then invariably it…

Workers will have to pay more into their pension pots from today as the latest stage in a “quiet revolution” gets under way. The minimum amount that can be put into a saver’s retirement pot under automatic enrolment has increased to a combined 5% of earnings.This is made up of a minimum 2% from a person’s employer and 3% from the employee.The minimum rate was previously 2% overall – 1% each from the employer and employee.In April next year, the rate will rise again – to 8% (3% from the employer and 5% from the employee).The rises are part of…

The disgraced former president of South Korea has been jailed for 24 years for her role in a sensational corruption case which drew in some of the country’s biggest companies. Park Geun-hye was sentenced by Seoul Central District Court after being convicted of 16 charges including bribery, abuse of power and extortion.She was also fined 18 billion won (£12m).Following months of hearings and massive street rallies calling for her to be ousted, the 66-year-old was arrested and impeached last year.The court ruled that Park colluded with her friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressurise business groups including Samsung and Lotte to give…

China has fired the latest salvo in a possible trade war, saying it will take on the US “until the end at any cost”. The warning from China’s ministry of commerce came after President Donald Trump said he was considering $100bn (£71.5bn) in extra tariffs on Chinese goods.The ministry said: “If the US side disregards opposition from China and the international community and insists on carrying out unilateralism and trade protectionism, the Chinese side will take them on until the end at any cost.”On Thursday night, stock markets had recovered some value as hopes grew that the two largest economies…

An 18-year-old who died after being stabbed in Hackney on Wednesday night has been named as Israel Ogunsola. The teenager is said to have approached police himself in Link Street suffering from knife wounds shortly before 8pm.Paramedics and staff from the London Air Ambulance attempted to save his life but he was pronounced dead at the scene less than half an hour later.It has emerged he was Facebook friends with another teenage victim of violent crime in London.Tanesha Melbourne, 17, was shot in a drive-by shooting on Monday in Tottenham.just 30 minutes later, 16-year-old Amaan Shakoor was shot in the…