Police in Aberdeen have widened the search area for two sisters who disappeared four days ago in the city.
Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32, were last seen on CCTV on Market Street after leaving their home on Tuesday at around 2.12am.
The sisters – who are part of a set of triplets and originally from Hungary – crossed the Victoria Bridge to the Torry area and turned right on to a footpath next to the River Dee.
Image: Eliza and Henrietta Huszti were last seen on CCTV in Market Street. Pic: Police Scotland/PA
They headed in the direction of Aberdeen Boat Club but officers said there is no evidence to suggest the missing women left the immediate area.
Specialist search teams, police dogs and a marine unit have been trying to trace the pair.
Image: The sisters crossed Victoria Bridge before walking along a footpath next to the River Dee
Image: The pair were heading in the direction of Aberdeen Boat Club on the south side of the River Dee
Further searches are being carried out towards the Port of Aberdeen’s South Harbour and Duthie Park.
Police Scotland said it is liaising with authorities in Hungary to support the relatives of the two sisters.
Chief Inspector Darren Bruce said: “Eliza and Henrietta’s family are understandably extremely worried about them and we are working tirelessly to find them.
“We are seriously concerned about them and have significant resources dedicated to the inquiry.”
The sisters, from Aberdeen city centre, are described as slim with long brown hair.
Image: Henrietta Huszti. Pic: Police Scotland
Image: Eliza Huszti. Pic: Police Scotland
Officers have requested businesses in and around the South Esplanade and Menzies Road area to review their CCTV footage for the early morning of Tuesday 7 January.
Police added they are keen to hear from anyone with dashcam footage from that time.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have been seen hugging and speaking to residents affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles as blazes continue to sweep across the region.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited Pasadena on Friday, where they met with the city’s mayor Victor Gordo and emergency workers tackling the Eaton Fire.
The blaze has burned through almost 14,000 acres and killed six people. It has also damaged or destroyed 4,000 to 5,000 structures.
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Harry and Meghan comforted volunteers and handed out food to evacuees.
Footage showed the duchess, wearing a blue “LA” baseball cap, and the prince hugging and consoling people who had fled to the Pasadena Convention Center.
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They are also seen speaking to World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder chef Jose Andres.
WCK has pop-up locations around California, including at the Pasadena community centre, where the public and emergency crews can get free hot meals in the wake of the wildfires, its website says.
Meghan was also photographed speaking to Doug Goodwin, whose home was destroyed in the wildfires.
Image: Prince Harry and Meghan speak to Pasadena mayor Victor Gordo (R) in California. Pic: AP
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Mr Gordo told reporters: “This is their second visit today. We were here earlier today and they were serving food, anonymously. No one knew they were serving food, with masks on.
“They didn’t come out here for publicity. They came out here to work.
“Then we went to visit some of the families in the impacted area and view first-hand some of the impacted area.
“Then they wanted to go visit the first responders and personally thank them for their efforts to help our families and our neighbours.”
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The royals live in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, around 90 miles from Los Angeles.
They are understood to have donated supplies, including clothing and children’s items, to people affected by the disaster.
They released a statement on Thursday urging people to help those affected by the wildfires and to open their homes to those evacuated.
“If a friend, loved one, or pet has to evacuate and you are able to offer them a safe haven in your home, please do,” the couple wrote on their official website.
“Be sure to check in with any disabled or elderly neighbours to see if they need help evacuating.
“Some families and people have been left with nothing. Please consider donating clothing, children’s toys and other essentials. The American Red Cross is on the ground helping those in need.”
They are reported to have invited friends affected by the wildfires to stay with them.
The government contract for the controversial asylum barge in Dorset has ended.
The last asylum seekers are believed to have left Bibby Stockholm at the end of November after Labour said it would have cost more than £20m to run in 2025.
Its closure this month was expected, and on Friday the management firm and the Home Office confirmed to Sky News the contract had now expired.
It’s currently unclear when Bibby Stockholm will leave Portland and what it will be used for next.
The Conservative government started using the vessel in August 2023.
It said putting nearly 500 men on board while they waited for an asylum decision was cheaper than paying for hotel rooms.
However, it was controversial from the start and sparked legal challenges and protests.
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Days after the first group boarded there was an outbreak of Legionella bacteria in the water system and it had to be evacuated for two months.
In December 2023, an Albanian asylum seeker, Leonard Farruku, died on board.
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A Home Office spokesperson said the government was determined to reform the asylum system to make it operate “swiftly, firmly and fairly”.
“This includes our accommodation sites, as we continue to identify a range of options to reduce the use of hotels,” the new statement added.
“We are already closing some hotels and will continue to engage with local authorities and key stakeholders as part of this process.”
Making Britain better off will be “at the forefront of the chancellor’s mind” during her visit to China, the Treasury has said amid controversy over the trip.
Rachel Reeves flew out on Friday after ignoring calls from opposition parties to cancel the long-planned venture because of market turmoil at home.
The past week has seen a drop in the pound and an increase in government borrowing costs, which has fuelled speculation of more spending cuts or tax rises.
The Tories have accused the chancellor of having “fled to China” rather than explain how she will fix the UK’s flatlining economy, while the Liberal Democrats say she should stay in Britain and announce a “plan B” to address market volatility.
However, Ms Reeves has rejected calls to cancel the visit, writing in The Times on Friday night that choosing not to engage with China is “no choice at all”.
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The chancellor will be accompanied by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and other senior executives.
She will meet with her counterpart, Vice Premier He Lifeng, in Beijing on Saturday to discuss financial services, trade and investment.
She will also “raise difficult issues”, including Chinese firms supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and concerns over constraints on rights and freedoms in Hong Kong, the Treasury said.
But it did not mention whether Ms Reeves would raise the treatment of the Uyghur community, which DowningStreet said Foreign Secretary David Lammy would do during his visit last year.
Image: Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing. Pic: AP
On Friday, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy defended the trip, telling Sky News that the climbing cost of government borrowing was a “global trend” that had affected many countries, “most notably the United States”.
“We are still on track to be the fastest growing economy, according to the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] in Europe,” she told Anna Jones on Sky News Breakfast.
“China is the second-largest economy, and what China does has the biggest impact on people from Stockton to Sunderland, right across the UK, and it’s absolutely essential that we have a relationship with them.”
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However, former prime minister Boris Johnson said Ms Reeves had “been rumbled” and said she should “make her way to HR and collect her P45 – or stay in China”.
While in the country’s capital, Ms Reeves will also visit British bike brand Brompton’s flagship store, which relies heavily on exports to China, before heading to Shanghai for talks with representatives across British and Chinese businesses.
It is the first UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) since 2019, building on the Labour government’s plan for a “pragmatic” policy with the world’s second-largest economy.
Sir Keir Starmer was the first British prime minister to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping in six years at the G20 summit in Brazil last autumn.
Relations between the UK and China have become strained over the last decade as the Conservative government spoke out against human rights abuses and concerns grew over national security risks.
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Navigating this has proved tricky given China is the UK’s fourth largest single trading partner, with a trade relationship worth almost £113bn and exports to China supporting over 455,000 jobs in the UK in 2020, according to the government.
During the Tories’ 14 years in office, the approach varied dramatically from the “golden era” under David Cameron to hawkish aggression under Liz Truss, while Rishi Sunak vowed to be “robust” but resisted pressure from his own party to brand China a threat.
The Treasury said a stable relationship with China would support economic growth and that “making working people across Britain secure and better off is at the forefront of the chancellor’s mind”.
Ahead of her visit, Ms Reeves said: “By finding common ground on trade and investment, while being candid about our differences and upholding national security as the first duty of this government, we can build a long-term economic relationship with China that works in the national interest.”
A teenager on trial for murder told a fellow inmate he would “do it again” after being accused of killing girls, a court has heard.
Hassan Sentamu, 18, allegedly murdered 15-year-old Elianne Andam, who was fatally stabbed in the neck during a row over a teddy bear outside a shopping centre in south London in September 2023.
A month after Elianne’s knife death, Sentamu got into a row with a fellow inmate in youth custody, jurors were told.
When he was accused of killing girls, Sentamu responded by saying: “I’ll do it again. I’ll do it to your mum,” the Old Bailey heard.
Image: Elianne Andam. Pic: PA
Sentamu, who was 17 at the time of the attack outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon on 27 September 2023, has claimed his autism spectrum disorder caused him to lose control during the meeting to exchange belongings with his ex-girlfriend, who was Elianne’s friend.
The prosecution told the court on Friday that his case was built on “flimsy foundations”.
There was no evidence that autism caused Sentamu to lash out in “frenzied murderous violence”, prosecutor Alex Chalk KC said, but instead, he was annoyed over “an earlier incident of perceived disrespect”.
Mr Chalk said: “He was angry on 27 September, having brooded on the insult and he took the knife to the scene to reassert dominance.
“He exacted vengeance on a young girl clearly running away from him and posing no threat.”
Defence barrister Pavlos Panayi KC said there were “two sides of the coin” as he set out Sentamu’s case.
It was not disputed the killing was a “grotesque overreaction” to Sentamu being splashed with water during a meeting with Elianne and her friends the day before.
Mr Panayi suggested a “central issue” in the case was Sentamu’s autism history and symptoms.
Sentamu, who was studying sports science at Croydon College, has admitted manslaughter but denies Elianne’s murder and having a blade.
Police are searching for two men in connection with a missing seven-year-old boy and his mum, who have not been seen together since June.
The Metropolitan Police have released photos of the men as part of their investigation looking for Karima Mahmoud, 43, and Adam Glanville, seven.
The mother and son were last seen together on 3 June last year in Richmond, west London.
Police have said Ms Mahmoud is in breach of a family court order.
Adam has not been seen since June. However on 24 October, officers received a sighting of Ms Mahmoud in the area of Bedfont Road, Feltham.
Image: Karima Mahmoud, 43, and Adam Glanville, seven. Pic: PA/Metropolitan Police
The two men police are looking for were involved in an “altercation” with a man at the time the missing mother and son were last seen together.
Police have released photos of the men: one with dark hair and facial hair, wearing a grey T-shirt, and another with grey hair, thick-rimmed black glasses, a beard, and wearing a Run DMC T-shirt.
The photos were taken at the time of the altercation, police said.
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Detective Sergeant Mary Dawson, who is leading the investigation, said: “We need the public’s help to locate Karima and Adam.
“Karima is in breach of a family court order and police are trying to locate them both.
“I also want to identify and speak with the two men shown in the image released today.”
She added: “I do not believe they have caused any harm to Karima or Adam, but I believe they may have information as to their whereabouts.”
Temperatures in northern parts of the UK could fall as low as minus 20C on Friday night as wintry weather continues, the Met Office has said.
There are yellow warnings for ice on Friday morning covering the eastern coast of England and Scotland, the South West, Wales and Northern Ireland.
There is also a yellow warning for snow and ice for northern Scotland. All the warnings expire before midday.
In addition, freezing fog is predicted across central and southeast England, and in parts of Wales, which may be “quite stubborn to clear” on Friday morning, said Met Office meteorologist Liam Eslick.
“It’s going to be another cold couple of days,” he added, and all areas of the UK are likely to experience sub-zero temperatures.
Image: St Andrew’s church at Kiln Pit in Durham. Pic: PA
Friday night may bring the coldest temperatures of the current cold snap, with temperatures possibly plummeting as low as minus 15C or even minus 20C.
“That’s probably the lowest limits we’re expecting,” Mr Eslick said.
“We probably don’t really expect many places to get close to minus 20C, but we could see one or two places that could just touch that mark overnight Friday into Saturday.”
That is because of still conditions, high pressure, “not a lot of wind and clear skies”.
In addition, snow on the ground helps to create “sort of a perfect scenario to see those temperatures just plummet”, Mr Eslick added.
Saturday is also likely to be bitterly cold, while Sunday is forecast to be a little warmer.
On Monday, temperatures are expected to be more in line with the seasonal norm, at about seven or eight degrees Celcius.
Image: A woman feeds ducks in a frosty High Wycombe. Pic: PA
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The freezing conditions have led to travel disruption, with Manchester Airport closing both its runways on Thursday morning because of “significant levels of snow”. They were later reopened.
Transport for Wales closed some railway lines because of damage to tracks.
Hundreds of schools in Scotland and about 90 in Wales were shut on Thursday.
Meanwhile, staff and customers at a pub thought to be Britain’s highest were finally able to leave on Thursday after being snowed in.
The Tan Hill Inn in Richmond, North Yorkshire, is 1,732 feet (528m) above sea level.
Six staff and 23 visitors were stuck, the pub said on Facebook.
A Russian spy was living in a “typical seaside hotel” on the English coast crammed full of electronic surveillance equipment, a court has heard.
Orlin Roussev boasted to his controller that he was becoming like the James Bond character “Q” as he prepared his spying “toys” for kidnap and surveillance operations across Europe.
He is said to have taken instructions from a handler called Jan Marsalek, who is wanted in connection with a £1.6bn tech fraud linked to a company called Wirecard.
Roussev, 46, a Bulgarian national, has pleaded guilty to running a spy ring on behalf of the Russians, but three other members of the group deny the charges.
Image: Orlin Roussev pleaded guilty to running a spy ring on behalf of the Russians. Pic: Met Police
The Old Bailey was told a “vast” amount of technical equipment for “intrusive surveillance” was found at Roussev’s address in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, which he described in messages as his “Indiana Jones warehouse”.
The Haydee guest house on Prince’s Road had 33 rooms according to Dan Pawson-Pounds, prosecuting.
Inside three of them was a “significant amount of IT and surveillance equipment”. It was stacked up in two storage rooms and an office used by Roussev, the court was told.
The jury heard that Operation Skirp seized 3,540 exhibits from a number of addresses, including 1,650 digital exhibits, and was shown two “IMSI grabbers” – a black metal box capable of capturing mobile phone numbers from a nearby area.
Image: An IMSI grabber, which can capture mobile phone numbers from a nearby area. Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS
Both devices were described as “law enforcement grade” and could be used to intercept or disrupt targeted mobile phone communications and to identify an individual phone by their IMSI and IMEI numbers, in conjunction with a direction-finding unit.
The spies planned to use them outside a US military base in Stuttgart, Germany, to gather information from the phones of Ukrainian servicemen who were being trained to operate Patriot missile defence batteries, the prosecution said.
The information would have allowed them to track the servicemen back to Ukraine and identify where the missiles were fired from, but the plan was foiled when the men were arrested in February last year.
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Image: Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS
Gadgets with hidden cameras part of evidence
Other findings included pendant necklaces with hidden cameras, water bottles with mobile phone-linked video surveillance capability, a Pandora car key cloning device, and more traditional surveillance equipment such as night vision binoculars and mobile radios.
Image: Pic: Duncan Gardham/MPS
The spy ring’s members allegedly included Katrin Ivanova, 33, a lab assistant from Harrow, North London, Vanya Gaberova, 30, a beautician from Acton, West London, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, a painter and decorator from Enfield.
Roussev and Biser Dzhambazov – a 43-year-old man from London who is also an alleged member of the ring – have both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collect information useful to an enemy.
Gaberova, Ivanova, and Ivanchev all deny the charges and the trial continues. All five are Bulgarian nationals with “settled status” in the UK.
More equipment – including a black cap with a concealed camera and a one-litre plastic Coke bottle with waterproof camera behind the label – was found in the lounge at a North London flat shared by Ivanova and Dzhambazov, the trial has heard.
Everton have sacked their manager Sean Dyche “with immediate effect”.
In a statement, the Liverpool-based football club said under-18s head coach and former player Leighton Baines, and club captain Seamus Coleman, “will take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis”.
The pair will be in the dugout for the FA Cup match against League One side Peterborough on Thursday evening.
It comes just a day after West Ham sacked their head coach Julen Lopetegui and replaced him with former Brighton and Chelsea boss Graham Potter.
Image: Everton have won just one game in 11 and are one point above the relegation zone. Pic: Reuters
Everton sit 16th in the Premier League and are just one point above the relegation spaces.
The club did not register a shot on target during Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth and have just one win in 11 league games.
Assistants Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer have also left the club, which said the process to appoint a new manager “is under way”.
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Everton were bought by The Friedkin Group in December last year, after the US firm agreed a takeover deal with Farhad Moshiri’s Blue Heaven Holdings in September.
The group, owned by the American tycoon Dan Friedkin, is already a majority owner of the Italian club AS Roma.
Dyche is the sixth Premier League manager to be sacked this season: The first was Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag in October.
Leicester City then sacked Steve Cooper in November, before Wolves dismissed Gary O’Neil on 15 December.
Russell Martin was also let go by Southampton the same day.
It also comes after Luton Town parted ways with Rob Edwards, with the club sitting 20th in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League last season.
There are grooming gangs “in every single part of our country”, Jess Phillips has told Sky News.
The safeguarding minister told Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast she was issuing an “open invitation” to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to meet victims with her.
Ms Badenoch’s spokesperson said she has not met any grooming gang victims after she called for a new national inquiry on Wednesday.
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Ms Phillips said: “There are grooming gangs in every single part of our country.
“I can’t stress this enough. There is nowhere where there is not organised child sexual abuse in our country.
“I am absolutely furious. All I’m going to say is, I’m going to start ringing them when I have to go and sit in courtrooms with rape victims. I’m going to start to see if they want to come along.
“Kemi has an open invitation. Next time I go and pick up a grooming victim, or every Friday afternoon in my office, I allocate two hours for the girls I’ve supported over the years, because they need to be supported for years and years and years afterwards.”
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The issue of grooming gangs reared its head again after it emerged last week Ms Phillips had rejected calls from Oldham Council for a government inquiry into the scandal in the town. She said a local inquiry was more appropriate.
Elon Musk has used that to continually tweet about the scandal, attacking Ms Phillips and Sir Keir Starmer for their involvement – which they have hit back at.
There have been several inquiries into grooming gangs around the country, including a national inquiry that took seven years and was published in 2022.
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Sky News has reported on those inquiries over the years, and also investigated and written about many grooming cases over the past two decades.
Home editor Jason Farrell has spoken to dozens of victims over the years, with his investigations exposing child abuse in Telford.
Many of the victims over the past week have told him they are not certain a new inquiry would help as it would take too long.
