Kay Burley

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Kay Burley |Rob Harris

Russ Cook, the "Hardest Geezer" who ran the length of Africa, is set to start a new long-distance running challenge. The fundraising runner, from Worthing, West Sussex, finished a 16,000km (9,941 miles) journey from the southernmost point of the continent - Cape Agulhas in South Africa - to Ras Angela, Tunisia in April last year.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Kay Burley

Millions of people face council tax hikes over normal thresholds after the government allowed six areas to boost rates above the usual 5%. More than two million people will be hit by increases of between 5 and 10%. Windsor and Maidenhead Council wanted to increase council tax by 25% but the plan was blocked - instead it will go up by 9%.

Dec 9, 2024 | news.sky.com | Kay Burley

Singer Noddy Holder says doctors are still "keeping a check on me" after being given months to live five years ago. The former Slade frontman, famous for the line "it's Christmas" in the band's 1973 festive hit Merry Xmas Everybody, told Sky News he had "lasted the course". In an interview with Kay Burley, the 78-year-old said: "I did have oesophageal cancer and that was five years ago and, at the moment, they're still keeping a check on me.

Dec 9, 2024 | news.sky.com | Kay Burley

The UK government could remove the group that led the Syrian rebellion from its list of banned terror organisations, a senior minister has told Sky News. Pat McFadden told Sky News' Breakfast with Kay Burley a decision would be made "quickly" about whether to take Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) off the proscribed terror list. Asked if the government planned to do so, Mr McFadden said ministers will "consider" it. "I think it will partly depend on what happens in terms of how that group behaves now.

Dec 2, 2024 | news.sky.com | Alix Culbertson |Kay Burley

Building owners could face prison if they have not removed unsafe cladding by 2029, according to a new government plan. A minister has warned landlords "we are after them" ahead of launching a remediation acceleration plan on Monday to speed up the removal of dangerous cladding. Seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire, where 72 people died, thousands of people are still living in buildings with unsafe cladding, and many cannot sell or remortgage their flats because of it.