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Eighteen people have died after a helicopter crashed on its way to an oil station in northern Siberia. The Russian transport ministry said the model Mi-8 aircraft went down soon after take-off from a gas field in Turuhansk at 5.43am local time due to a collision with machinery being carried by another helicopter.Among those killed were three members of the crew, with the other 15 believed to have been oil workers.”The first take-off was carried out by an Mi-8 with an external cargo suspension without passengers on board,” the ministry said in a statement.”The second take-off was performed with passengers…

Two people including a teenager treated in hospital for stab wounds after the rapper Incognito was killed in London have been arrested on suspicion of murder. The 23-year-old musician Siddique Kamara became the second member of the drill music group Moscow17 to die on Warham Street, Camberwell, in three months.Mr Kamara was found to have died of two stab wounds to the chest.Two men, aged 16 and 31, also suffered stab wounds and have now been arrested on suspicion of murder.Metropolitan Police have not confirmed if they are being held over the death of Mr Kamara.The pair were taken to…

One of Britain’s best-known retailers says Britain’s tax system should be radically changed to stop online companies having “an unfair advantage”, and being subsidised by the taxes of their rivals. Justin King, former chief executive of Sainsbury’s, has called for business rates to be halved, with the lost revenue replaced by a 2% increase in VAT.He says those changes would not increase shop prices, but would mean companies such as Amazon paying a fairer share of tax.He has also suggested that the Government should consider a “delivery tax” on online retailers that “bypass retail space”.Mr King was boss of Sainsbury’s…

The family of a 10-year-old boy were asked to prove his disability before he boarded a Jet2 flight from Croatia. Alex Johnson said she was left humiliated after doing everything she could to prepare the airline for her son’s flight, only to be asked to prove Jack is disabled at the airport gates in Split, Croatia.She and her husband, former Wigan Warriors player Andy Johnson, set up a charity called Joining Jack, which funds research into a cure for Jack’s condition, duchenne muscular dystrophy.The airline has since apologised for what it called an “isolated incident”.Mrs Johnson said she spent a…

The American buyout titan Carlyle has gatecrashed the auction of Gaucho, the stricken restaurant chain, with a cut-price bid to buy it out of administration. Sky News has learnt that Carlyle Strategic Partners, a special situations fund managed by the firm, lodged an offer for Gaucho earlier this week.Its bid comes just weeks after it offloaded a substantial debt position it held in Prezzo, another restaurant chain which has been hit by the crisis engulfing Britain’s casual dining industry.Carlyle is among a small number of bidders for Gaucho, which crashed into administration last month after its CAU chain amassed millions…

It was supposed to be a grand occasion, but just before the name of Zimbabwe’s new president was announced, the opposition MDC Alliance decided to make its own intervention. Fighting furious shouts and whistles at a hotel in Harare, the MDC’s chief election agent Morgan Komichi said: “The results are fake, they are not authentic, we reject them.”The police cleared Mr Komichi from the room and the stage was finally set, after three days of vote counting and controversy, for the head of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to announce a winner.”I do hereby declare that the votes by Emmerson Dambudzo…

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned that Britain faces an “uncomfortably high” risk of leaving the EU with no deal. The pound slipped to below $1.30, its lowest point in eleven days, as Mr Carney issued the warning on negotiations with Brussels.He said: “I think the possibility of a no deal is uncomfortably high at this point.”People will have things to worry about in a no deal Brexit, which is still a relatively unlikely possibility but it is a possibility.” 2:11 Video: How parts of the UK are preparing for Brexit Sterling went as low as $1.2975, or…

The sister of a midwife who has been missing for a week has made an emotional appeal for information, saying “we miss you very much”. Samantha Eastwood was last seen when she left her night shift at the Royal Stoke Hospital at 7.47am last Friday.Her sister Gemma made a tearful appeal for anyone with information to come forward.She said: “We miss you very much, we need you home where you belong. Image: Samantha Eastwood’s disappearance is out of character, police say “Samantha is a fantastic woman and friend, she’s warm, friendly, loyal, kind and generous with a great sense of…

A press conference held by Zimbabwe’s opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa has been broken up by police using shields and batons. Riot police also chased away reporters without explanation, and there was no sign of Mr Chamisa.The electoral commission announced that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former enforcer of long-time leader Robert Mugabe, and leader of the Zanu-PF Party had narrowly won Monday’s vote.:: Analysis: Mnangagwa must defend ‘unverified’ electionMr Chamisa, who received more than 44% of the vote, has alleged that the presidential election was rigged.His MDC party has threatened to challenge what they call the “fake” election results in…

I do. I remember heading along to the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street as the financial crisis and recession raged, and witnessing the most dramatic change in interest rates in modern history as the Monetary Policy Committee slashed them to 0.5%.I remember just how tense the mood was inside the Bank. There was a sense that they had had to throw out the textbooks and begin again from first principles, as they tried to work out how the economy would function with near-zero rates.And as I remember it, no one there even dreamt that the cost of borrowing would…