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Ten people are in hospital after shots were fired overnight in the Moss Side area of Manchester. Police have said they are treating the incident as attempted murder.Two children are among those with “pellet-type wounds” and one man is in a serious but stable condition with leg injuries, police have said.The nine people with pellet injuries are expected to leave hospital later today.”A large number” of armed and unarmed officers were on the scene at Claremont Road after a series of “bangs” were reported 2.25am.Manchester Caribbean Carnival had brought large groups of people to the area, with several after-parties understood…

The family of an airport worker who stole a plane from Seattle airport before crashing into an island have spoken about their shock and insisted he never intended to hurt anyone. The family of 29-year-old Richard Russell, who liked to be called Beebo, delivered a statement to the media.Read out by a family friend, it said: “He was a faithful husband, loving son and a good friend.”A childhood friend remarked that Beebo was loved by everyone because he was kind and gentle to each person he met. 1:37 Video: ‘Stunned and heartbroken’ – family statement “This is a complete shock…

Cyclists who kill pedestrians could be treated in a similar way to dangerous drivers under new legislation being proposed by the government. The Department for Transport has begun a 12-week consultation on plans to update existing road safety laws to protect pedestrians and cyclists.The laws are being proposed by the government after 44-year-old mother-of-two Kim Briggs was knocked over and killed by a bicycle courier in February 2016. Image: Charlie Alliston was sentenced to 18 months in jail Ms Briggs was killed by Charlie Alliston, then 18, who was travelling at 18mph on a fixed-wheel bike with no front brakes.He…

A senior executive at IBM, the American technology giant, has been approached about the ‎top job at WPP Group as it homes in on a successor to Sir Martin Sorrell. Sky News has learnt that David Kenny, the senior vice-president of IBM’s Watson and Cloud Platform‎ division, was interviewed last month in New York by WPP chairman Roberto Quarta and boardroom colleagues.This weekend, he ruled himself out of the running for the job, when an IBM spokesman responded to the disclosure of Mr Kenny’s involvement in the search process by saying he “has confirmed he is not a candidate for…

A senior executive at IBM, the American technology giant, has been approached about the ‎top job at WPP Group as it homes in on a successor to Sir Martin Sorrell. Sky News has learnt that David Kenny, the senior vice-president of IBM’s Watson and Cloud Platform‎ division, was interviewed last month in New York by WPP chairman Roberto Quarta and boardroom colleagues.WPP, the marketing services giant led by Sir Martin for more than three decades before his abrupt exit in April, is expected to announce the identity of his replacement at around the time of its half-year results on 4…

Several Marks & Spencer shops have opened for their last day of trading as part of the retailer’s plans to shut 100 stores by 2022. Clothing stores in Northampton, Falkirk, Kettering, Newmarket, New Mersey Speke, Stockton and Walsall will trade for a final day on Saturday – while a Simply Food in Bayswater, London, will also close.Three stores in Fleetwood, Newton Abbott and Darlington have already stopped trading.Three more – in East Kilbride, Clacton and Holloway Road in London – are expected to close soon.The latest round of closures comes after 21 stores were wound up by the chain.As part…

Critics of Boris Johnson are jealous of his popularity, backbench Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed. The Conservative Party investigation into allegedly Islamophobic comments by Boris Johnson has been labelled a “show trial” by Mr Rees-Mogg, in an article for The Daily Telegraph.The ardent Brexiteer and chair of the influential European Research Group claims the investigation could be an attempt to undermine the former foreign secretary and any future leadership bid.Mr Rees-Mogg writes: “Envy is one of the seven deadly sins… Boris Johnson, because of his many successes, popularity with voters and charisma, attracts more than his fair share of…

A US airline employee who stole an empty plane from an airport and crashed it into nearby island has been described by police as “suicidal”. Witnesses filmed the Horizon Air 76-seater plane performing loops and being chased by two F-15 military jets near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state before it crashed in dense woodland on Ketron Island.The suspect was identified as a 29-year-old Pierce County resident and ground service employee who helps direct aircraft to gates.The pilot’s condition is not yet known, but police say the “fiery crash” made it likely that it was “probably not a good condition.”…

The maker of a commonly used weed killer has been ordered to pay $289m (£266m) to a dying groundsman who says the product contributed to his cancer. A jury in San Francisco told agribusiness giant Monsanto it must pay $250m in punitive damages and $39m in compensatory damages after the firm lost a legal case.The court was told Dewayne Johnson has a terminal form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma which he claims he caught after working as a pest control manager at a school.Mr Johnson used Roundup and a similar product, Ranger Pro – both made by Monsanto – while carrying out…

A man has died and another is in hospital after an explosion at a military hardware factory in Salisbury. A 29-year-old from Southampton died in the blast at Chemring Countermeasures facility on Friday evening.A second man, 26, from Pewsey, is in hospital and his condition is described as serious but stable.The factory is about five miles from the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down laboratory, which has been investigating the novichok poisoning attacks.Police said the attacks were not linked to Friday’s explosion, which is still being investigated. Image: Chemring Countermeasures has designed hardware systems for RAF Typhoon jets Detective Inspector Simon…