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Guernsey’s Parliament is to vote on whether to allow assisted dying. It will follow a two-day debate by the Channel Island’s 40 deputies.The subject is close to the heart of Martin McIntyre, a 56-year-old retired civil servant, originally from Croydon, who has lived in Guernsey for the last two decades and was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer a year ago.He knows he’ll be dead long before any euthanasia law can help him, but he wants those who come after to have the choice he does not. Image: Martin McIntyre has terminal cancer He told Sky News: “I might just go…

MPs have demanded an overhaul of corporate oversight while blaming Carillion’s board, auditors and regulators for the construction company’s spectacular collapse. A joint inquiry by two Commons select committees concluded no-one stopped directors “stuffing their mouths with gold” for years before it went into liquidation in January with debts of up to £7bn, including £2.6bn in pension liabilities.The MPs called for the Government to launch an ambitious and wide-ranging overhaul of corporate accountability, finding that successive administrations allowed Carillion to become a “giant and unsustainable corporate time bomb”. 3:12 Video: Carillion bosses apologise to MPs for firm’s collapse In their…

We had been invited into the closed military zone on Israel’s border with Gaza border. After fierce criticism of its gunning down of Palestinian protesters this week, Israel’s military wanted to tell its side of the story.From our military jeep we could see earthworks thrown up by Israeli sappers to protect their forces.Atop them, covered by canvas, sniper nests are dug into the sand.We were taken to the site of an ambush.Six Hamas fighters, we were told, fired on an Israeli jeep through the fence, under cover of the protests. Image: Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from tear gas fired…

Meghan’s Markle’s father will not walk her down the aisle as he is due to have heart surgery on Wednesday, a US report said. Thomas Markle said he will go into surgery at 7.30am in Mexico, where he lives, after he reportedly suffered from a heart attack last week.He will not be able to travel to England for his daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday in Windsor, celebrity website TMZ said.His absence most likely means that his ex-wife, Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, will walk their daughter down the aisle at St George’s chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle.Mr…

England fans travelling to next month’s World Cup in Russia have been told to expect “off-the-scale” levels of military-style police at the tournament. The Three Lions’ opening game against Tunisia takes place in Volgograd – formerly Stalingrad – and supporters have been warned not to display flags on sensitive World War Two memorials or to provoke locals by singing inflammatory songs.Only one of England’s Group G games has sold out so far and fewer than 10,000 fans are expected to travel.”We wouldn’t expect people to come across to this country, get drunk and drape flags on the Cenotaph so we…

Throughout the day Gaza has been burying its dead after yesterday’s bloody protests on the border. Across the strip the sense of desolation was palpable.A general strike meant most of the streets were empty, with people staying indoors.But neighbourhoods were not quiet: muezzins called out from the minarets, demanding people to remember the martyrs who were killed by Israeli snipers.I went inside one mosque – it was a portrait of grief.:: Israeli bullets didn’t seem to frighten any Gazans – even children Image: Yazan’s friend, Mohammed Abu El Ameen, was shot in the eye by an Israeli sniper Friends and…

The bookmaker which owns The Tote will axe more than 4,500 jobs if the Government implements plans to slash maximum stakes on gambling machines to just £2. Sky News has learnt that Betfred has told ministers that almost 900 of its shops – more than half its UK estate – will become loss-making overnight if they press ahead with reforms to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs).In a letter to members of the home affairs sub-committee, Mark Stebbings, Betfred’s managing director, warned that “much upset and heartache will go into having to make…redundant” close to 4,500 people who work in the…

Theresa May has called for an inquiry into the “tragic” deaths in Gaza as Israel faced growing condemnation over its killing of dozens of Palestinians. The prime minister urged Israel to “show restraint” after soldiers shot dead two more Palestinians near the border on Tuesday.Monday was the deadliest day in the region since the 2014 Gaza war, as 60 Palestinians were killed and more than 2,700 wounded amid protests over the US embassy’s move to Jerusalem.At a UN Security Council meeting, Palestine insisted Israel had committed a war crime by firing at the protesters, while Hamas – the rulers of…

UK wages grew at their fastest pace in almost three years during the first three months of the year, according to official data. Average growth in earnings, excluding bonuses, rose to 2.9% in the three months to March after a 2.8% rise in February. The latest reading is more than the Inflation rate of 2.5% in March.It follows a year in which wages fell against inflation. Real wages grew by just 0.4%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).A decade on from the financial crisis real wages are still worth £24 a week less than in 2008, according to…

Israeli forces have shot and killed at least 58 Palestinians and left 2,771 injured during mass protests against the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, Palestinian health officials say. The bloodshed marks the deadliest day in the region since the 2014 Gaza war, with Israeli soldiers firing at protesters who had to flee for cover.The AP news agency reported some Israeli forces had opened fire from tanks.Palestinians along the Gaza border had earlier hurled firebombs and stones towards troops.Israel’s military claimed its forces had come under fire during the clashes, adding that some protesters had tried to break through…