Spotify suffering major outage

Spotify suffering major outage

Spotify down: Streaming app suffers major outage - as company confirms 'issues' | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News BreakingBreakingWednesday 16 April 2025 14:50, UK Why you can trust Sky NewsSpotify is suffering a widespread outage - with the popular music app failing to load for many users.On X, the streaming service confirmed the disruption, and said: "We're aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!"Downdetector has received thousands of reports about the outage - […]

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Ex-snooker champion in court accused of child sex abuse

Ex-snooker champion Graeme Dott in court accused of child sex abuse | UK News | Sky News The allegations span between 1993 to 1996 involving a girl, and 2006 to 2010 involving a boy, both in the Glasgow region.Wednesday 16 April 2025 15:01, UK Image: File pic: iStock Why you can trust Sky NewsFormer world snooker champion Graeme Dott has appeared in court and been released on bail over allegations of historical child sex abuse.Dott, 47, is accused of two […]

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Man who murdered his mum and siblings and planned school shooting to have sentence reviewed

The sentence of triple murderer Nicholas Prosper, who killed his family and was planning a school shooting in Luton, has been referred to the Court of Appeal.The referral has been made under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme, the Attorney General's Office said on Wednesday.Prosper, 19, pleaded guilty to the murders of his mother, Juliana Falcon, 48, and his siblings, Kyle Prosper, 16, and 13-year-old Giselle Prosper, at Luton Crown Court in February. Image: (L-R) Giselle Prosper, Juliana Falcon, and Kyle […]

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Gender ruling will have immediate real-world consequences

For years there has been a toxic, emotion-driven debate over gender and sex in this country. Today came clarity.This was the legal crescendo in a saga that has rolled through the courts for more than half a decade.It impacts half of the population in England, Scotland and Wales.Five judges at the highest civil court in the land were unanimous: the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.It essentially means holders of gender recognition certificates are not women […]

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Post Office auditor under investigation

Post Office auditor and big four accounting firm EY is being investigated by the industry's regulator.Accounting and audit watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), said the investigation related to EY's 2015 to 2018 audits of Post Office accounts and the faulty accounting software, Horizon IT.The regulator will be examining the role of EY in meeting the auditing standards, the FRC said.Money: Best mobile phone providers ranked The Horizon computer programme, made by Fujitsu, wrongly generated financial shortfalls. This led many […]

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Murder arrest after woman stabbed in flat

Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman stabbed in Liverpool flat | UK News | Sky News Police say they were called to the tower block in Huyton after a "domestic incident".Wednesday 16 April 2025 11:55, UK Why you can trust Sky NewsA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 30s was fatally stabbed inside a flat in Liverpool.Police said they were called to the scene in the Knowsley Heights tower block in […]

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Cyprus attorney general appeals after Israeli men cleared of gang raping British tourist

The attorney general of Cyprus attorney has appealed against the acquittal of five Israeli men accused of gang raping a British tourist on the island.The woman, then 20, said one of them forcibly took her to his hotel room before the others joined the attack during a pool party in the popular holiday resort of Ayia Napa on 3 September 2023.All five of the men, then aged 19 and 20, denied charges, including rape, sexual assault and abduction and have […]

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Tommy Robinson loses appeal against sentence

Tommy Robinson has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the length of his prison sentence for contempt of court.The far-right political activist, 42, was jailed for 18 months in October last year after admitting breaching a 2021 High Court order banning him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him for libel.Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was told his sentence would be shortened by four months if he "purged" the contempt by removing the […]

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Mixed Easter forecast for UK – as heavy rain possible

A wet Easter is in store for parts of the UK as a spell of unsettled weather moves across the UK, and heavy rain is possible in places.A yellow rain warning covering southwest England, Wales, and parts of the West Midlands and North West along the border, issued by the Met Office at noon on Tuesday, runs until noon on Wednesday.Up to 75mm (three inches) of rain is possible in the area covered by the warning, and more than 50mm […]

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