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Seventeen-year-old Jayden Parkinson was pregnant when she was strangled and buried by her violent ex-boyfriend in Oxfordshire in December 2013. Ben Blakeley, who had a history of violence towards previous partners, is serving a life sentence for the teenager’s murder.Here, Jayden’s mother Samatha Shrewsbury tells Sky News why she hopes her daughter’s death is not in vain as she backs calls for a register of domestic abusers.I don’t want another mum to have to stand there and look at their daughter’s body on a slab.I will never forgot that until the day I die.For the year before Jayden was killed,…

British Airways has promised to compensate customers following a major hack that compromised the bank card information of around 380,000 customers. The airline was hit by a “very sophisticated malicious criminal attack” on its website and app between 21 August and 5 September.Chief executive Alex Cruz says the company is “100% committed” to compensating customers who have had financial information stolen.”We will compensate them for any financial hardship that they may have suffered,” he told the BBC.Enough information was stolen to allow criminals to use credit or bank card information, Mr Cruz said.BA confirmed details of the data breach on…

Boris Johnson and his wife Marina Wheeler have announced that they are in the process of divorcing. In a joint statement issued through a family friend, the pair said: “Several months ago, after 25 years of marriage, we decided it was in our best interests to separate.”We have subsequently agreed to divorce and that process is under way.”As friends we will continue to support our four children in the years ahead. We will not be commenting further.”It comes after The Sun revealed that Mr Johnson, considered a future prime minister by some Conservative supporters, was no longer living with his…

A warm summer and the World Cup provided pub chain and brewer Greene King “positive momentum” for a boost in sales, the company has revealed in its latest trading update. The Greene King IPA, OId Speckled Hen and Abbot Ale brewer saw an increase in like-for-like sales of 2.8% in the 18 weeks to September 2.Growth over the last 10 weeks was at 3.2%.Greene King’s branded local pubs traded well, with comparable sales up 5.5%, driven by football fans during England’s impressive run to the World Cup semi-finals.A total of 3.7 million pints of beer were sold during England’s seven…

Brazil’s right-wing presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro has undergone emergency surgery after he was stabbed in the stomach during a campaign event. Mr Bolsonaro’s son Flavio said his father had suffered severe blood loss and arrived at the hospital “almost dead” after the attack in the southeastern city of Juiz de Fora on Thursday.The surgeon who operated on Mr Bolsonaro said the 63-year-old had suffered multiple internal injuries to the small and large intenstine during the attack.”It was necessary for us to not just treat one point (of entry) but a number of them inside the small intestine,” Dr Luiz Henrique…

Shares of British Airways’ parent company IAG fell around 4% as markets opened on Friday morning, hours after the airline said the credit card information of at least 380,000 customers had been “compromised” in a data theft. More than £500m was wiped of the airline group’s market value as a result, before the share price rallied to being down just 2% on the day.The airline said people using BA.com and its mobile app for flight bookings were targeted by hackers between 21 August and 5 September.Information stolen includes customer names, email addresses, home addresses and payment card information – but…

The problems and the tensions with migration at the French port of Calais are well-established.  But in a sleepy Normandy fishing port four hours to the west, Sky News has found the tensions and strains have spread.The town of Ouistreham is now a growing focus for young African men and boys trying to reach the UK.It’s 10am and, while locals shop at the fish market and sip coffee at the town’s cafes, scores of young men are dashing after trucks heading to the port right in plain sight of everyone. Image: The dangerous, brazen, desperate dash is now happening every…

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly will have their salaries cut by over £13,000 until an executive is restored, it has been announced. Stormont has been without a power-sharing government since January 2017.Karen Bradley, the Northern Ireland secretary, said the country was “stalling” without devolved government and that local people were “suffering” because of a lack of decision-making.She confirmed the cut would take place in two stages, starting in November.Staff working for politicians in Stormont will have their pay rate protected.It will see salaries slashed from £49,500 down to £35,888, in line with a recommendation by former Assembly chief executive…

The 12 boys who made headlines across the world following their dramatic rescue from a cave in Thailand have relived their ordeal at a Bangkok exhibition. The boys crawled through a 10-metre replica tunnel in front of crowds who turned out to see them speak at a reproduction of the cave at one of the city’s largest shopping centres.Far from nervous, the young football team appeared in high spirits as they made their way through the fake cave. Image: The boys were happy to talk about their experience As well as the murky brown tunnel, the exhibition features underwater robots,…

India’s top court has reversed a law from the colonial era that made gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in jail. Five people had challenged the law, saying they lived in fear of being harassed by police.A law known as Section 377, enacted by British rulers in 1861, was widely interpreted as referring to homosexual sex.It prohibited “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”.Many people consider gay sex to be taboo in socially conservative India. Image: A woman taking part in a pride parade in Bhopal in July Five judges sitting at…