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[ad_1] Katie Price has explained why she failed to appear in court for a bankruptcy hearing – resulting in a warrant for her arrest. The former glamour model insisted she was “not running from matters” and posted a statement on Instagram saying she could not attend because she was filming abroad. On Tuesday, Insolvency and Companies Court…

[ad_1] Taylor Swift is getting her own exhibition at the V&A Museum in London this summer. The show – titled Taylor Swift: Songbook Trail – will feature costumes, awards and items from her childhood – with many on display for the first time. The temporary exhibition will be made up of different stops on a…

[ad_1] Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, will next week meet the Czech tycoon who is on the verge of becoming the first foreign owner of Royal Mail in its 500-year history. Sky News has learnt that Ms Badenoch will hold talks with Daniel Kretinsky after his investment company, EP Group, struck a £3.6bn deal with…

[ad_1] A former senior executive at the Post Office was told by auditors the Horizon IT system was “a real risk”, four years before sub-postmaster prosecutions stopped. Post Office’s auditors Ernst and Young (now called EY) warned Alice Perkins, the company chair in 2011, that the accountancy software “is a real risk” and asked, “does…

[ad_1] The commitments offered by the Czech tycoon seeking to buy Royal Mail’s parent firm do not go far enough, according to the union leader representing its 112,000 UK frontline workers. Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward made his remarks following talks with representatives of Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group. International Distribution Services (IDS)…

[ad_1] A disabled young mother fears that she is stuck in emergency housing months after she hoped to have been moved on to a more suitable longer-term property. Zoe McBride, 28, who suffers from chronic back problems and has a 10-month-old baby, said that families had come and gone from the emergency housing where she…

[ad_1] At least 18 people have been killed and hundreds are injured after powerful storms left a trail of destruction as they swept across parts of the central United States. The storms, which began on Saturday evening local time and continued into Sunday, inflicted their worst damage in a region spanning from north of Dallas…

[ad_1] If the Conservatives win the general election, teenagers will be expected to take part in national service when they turn 18.  Exactly how the scheme would work has not yet been hammered out. The Tories have said they would set up a royal commission – a type of public inquiry – to come up…