Metro Bank has kicked off talks about the sale of a £3bn chunk of its mortgage book as part of an increasingly urgent attempt to shore up its fragile balance sheet. Sky News has learnt that advisers to Metro Bank – which saw its shares plunge on Thursday after acknowledging that it was seeking to
British Airways (BA) is on the brink of a long-term pay deal with its pilots aimed at removing the renewed threat of strike action until at least 2027. Sky News has learnt that BA, a subsidiary of the FTSE 100 company International Airlines Group, was applying the finishing touches to an agreement with BALPA, the
The trial of embattled crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried has begun – with prosecutors claiming he stole more than $10bn (£8.2bn) from unsuspecting customers. Almost a year after FTX spectacularly collapsed, leaving millions of people out of pocket, a court heard that the 31-year-old’s multibillion-dollar empire was “built on lies”. Bankman-Fried has been accused of using
The competition regulator is to investigate the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in the UK’s cloud market. It follows a study by the telecoms watchdog Ofcom which “identified features that make it more difficult for UK businesses to switch and use multiple cloud suppliers”. Ofcom added: “We are particularly concerned about the position of the
Paris is grappling with a bed bug infestation – but the problem is likely just as bad in London, an expert says. “They’re already on buses, trains, tubes, cinemas, doctor’s surgeries, public spaces, hospitals,” microbiologist and founder of Bed Bugs Ltd David Cain told Sky News. The difference is that Parisians are talking about the
Joe Biden’s dog Commander has been removed from the White House after biting agents and staff. The two-year-old German shepherd had attacked members of the US Secret Service 10 times between October 2022 and January 2023. One female officer recently required medical treatment. Image: Commander was a gift to the US president from his brother
The United States has sent over a million rounds of ammunition it seized from an Iranian ship last December to Ukraine. Officials at the Pentagon have confirmed to Sky News the transfer of 1.1 million rounds of 7.62mm small arms ammunition to Ukraine took place on Monday this week. The ammunition, standard rounds for Soviet-era
There are fresh calls to clean up politics with stronger rules around lying after senior Tories made false statements around meat taxes and 15-minute cities at their annual party conference. Green MP Caroline Lucas told Sky News a “dishonesty epidemic is infecting the Tory party” as she called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to acquaint
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Stranger Things” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, October 3rd, at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed
By Howard Bloom On Tuesday September 21st, Target announced that it was closing nine stores in four states in October because of a new form of organized crime—smash and grab robberies, flash robberies. The sort of robberies that hit a Wawa convenience store in Philadelphia on Sunday September 24, when it was invaded by between
Rishi Sunak’s recent shift on green policies gave us the biggest indication yet that he is planning for a general election. Standing on a podium with the slogan “Long term decisions for a brighter future”, the prime minister made clear his watering down of net zero pledges was not a one-off, but the beginning of
This is a story of the prizes and the prices of fame. At 8:00 Wednesday morning, September 20th, Donald Trump Jr’s X account proclaimed, “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away. I will be running for president in 2024.” Then the account burped out a Tweet about Joe Biden complete with a
In a story that appeared Wednesday morning, September 14th, The Wall Street Journal exposed a hidden crisis called the silver tsunami. What’s the silver tsunami? It’s a tidal wave of homelessness among the elderly. Senior citizen homelessness today is five times what it was in 1990. Who are today’s homeless elderly? Baby boomers. A
By Howard Bloom One of the world’s most fabled neighborhoods for the rich and famous is Beverly Hills, the home of Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Adele, Jack Nicholson, and Eddy Murphy. And in Beverly Hills is one of the most luxurious and expensive shopping areas you have ever seen, Rodeo Drive. But is the allure
Don’t Take Away Their Social Media By Howard Bloom The attack on social media just won’t stop. Three weeks ago, on August 8, the Child Mind Organization updated a report on its website headlined, “Does Social Media Use Cause Depression?” The answer was basically yes. Meanwhile, anonymous backers of the Kids Online Safety Act are running
World-Renowned Drummer/DJ DRMAGDN has just released the official music video of his remix of the Beatles classic “Something.” In six weeks the single has broken 5.5 million plays/views and is going viral around the world, as well as it has been added to the biggest two Spotify playlists “Today’s Top Hits” and “MINT.” After signing