The Radio 2 star had his contract terminated at the weekend, with the corporation initially saying he was dismissed due to claims over his "personal conduct". On Tuesday, it emerged Mills was investigated over allegations of "serious sexual offences" against a boy who was aged under 16. The BBC has now issued a statement after the Telegraph reported the broadcaster knew of separate allegations against Mills almost a year ago but failed to investigate. According to the newspaper, a freelance journalist contacted the BBC in May 2025 to say she had received information about alleged "inappropriate communications" involving Mills and asked whether the broadcaster was "ever aware of or involved in any related matters". The BBC was also asked by the journalist whether it had ever received any "formal or informal complaints" about Mills "relating to safeguarding, inappropriate conduct or harassment" and whether it had ever conducted an internal investigation into him, The Telegraph said. It added that she did not receive a response. In a statement to Sky News, the BBC said: "We received a press query in 2025 which included limited information. This should have been followed up and we should have asked further questions. We apologise for this and will look into why this did not happen. "More broadly, we would always urge anyone who has concerns or information to raise it with us." The Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation in December 2016 "following a referral from another police force" relating to "allegations of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy". The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1997 and 2000. "As part of these inquiries, a man who was in his 40s at the time of the interview was questioned by police under caution in July 2018," the Met added. It said the Crown Prosecution Service ultimately decided "the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges" and the case was closed in May 2019. The charity Neuroblastoma UK said it had cut ties with Mills and that he was no longer a patron for the organisation. Mills, who has not yet commented on his sacking, was taken off air by the BBC last Tuesday. The 53-year-old signed off that show saying "back tomorrow" - but Gary Davies presented Wednesday's show. Mills took over from Zoe Ball on Radio 2's breakfast show in 2025 after a long career at the BBC and regional radio. He was paid between £355,000 and £359,999.

The Radio 2 star had his contract terminated at the weekend, with the corporation initially saying he was dismissed due to claims over his "personal conduct". On Tuesday, it emerged Mills was investigated over allegations of "serious sexual offences" against a boy who was aged under 16. The BBC has now issued a statement after the Telegraph reported the broadcaster knew of separate allegations against Mills almost a year ago but failed to investigate. According to the newspaper, a freelance journalist contacted the BBC in May 2025 to say she had received information about alleged "inappropriate communications" involving Mills and asked whether the broadcaster was "ever aware of or involved in any related matters". The BBC was also asked by the journalist whether it had ever received any "formal or informal complaints" about Mills "relating to safeguarding, inappropriate conduct or harassment" and whether it had ever conducted an internal investigation into him, The Telegraph said. It added that she did not receive a response. In a statement to Sky News, the BBC said: "We received a press query in 2025 which included limited information. This should have been followed up and we should have asked further questions. We apologise for this and will look into why this did not happen. "More broadly, we would always urge anyone who has concerns or information to raise it with us." The Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation in December 2016 "following a referral from another police force" relating to "allegations of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy". The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1997 and 2000. "As part of these inquiries, a man who was in his 40s at the time of the interview was questioned by police under caution in July 2018," the Met added. It said the Crown Prosecution Service ultimately decided "the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges" and the case was closed in May 2019. The charity Neuroblastoma UK said it had cut ties with Mills and that he was no longer a patron for the organisation. Mills, who has not yet commented on his sacking, was taken off air by the BBC last Tuesday. The 53-year-old signed off that show saying "back tomorrow" - but Gary Davies presented Wednesday's show. Mills took over from Zoe Ball on Radio 2's breakfast show in 2025 after a long career at the BBC and regional radio. He was paid between £355,000 and £359,999.

Resident doctors - formerly junior doctors - are now threatening to strike after Easter. Sky News looks back at when they have walked out before and why. Politics latest: Starmer issues ultimatum over doctors' strikes 2016: The first all-out doctors' strike since 1975 took place in January 2016 after then-Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt proposed a new contract for junior doctors - any doctor below consultant level - which would scrap standard overtime rates while increasing basic pay. There were further walkouts that year and a revised contract was eventually imposed, ending the dispute. 2023: All was relatively calm, in terms of strike action, for seven years until 2023, when doctors carried out strikes every month for five months from March under Rishi Sunak's government. They argued that their pay, in real terms, had fallen by 20-30% since 2008, with the BMA demanding "full pay restoration". 2024: January 2024 saw the longest strike in NHS history at the time - six days - over their pay erosion, and another in February. After Mr Sunak called the general election, the BMA announced another full six-day walkout by junior doctors in June and July 2024. After three months of talks, the BMA said Mr Sunak had "made no credible offer" to "restore pay lost over the last 15 years" and they were giving him a final chance to do so. Labour won the general election in July, and the new government offered a 22% pay rise over two years, which junior doctors accepted two months later, ending the strikes. Junior doctors were also renamed "resident doctors". Read more from Sky News:Millions of drivers owed compensationApril changes that will affect your money 2025: The strike respite was short-lived as tensions continued over pay restoration. Further issues included bottlenecks in speciality training posts and growing employment insecurity for early-career doctors, who said there are not enough jobs for them. This led to three new rounds of strikes in July, November and December 2025. 2026: Resident doctors are now threatening to strike for six days from 7 April, bringing the number of strikes since 2023 to 15. Sir Keir Starmer accused the BMA of rejecting a "historic deal" that would have delivered "another above-inflation pay rise this year" of 3.5% to bring their total pay rise since 2023 to 25.5%. The BMA said global events such as the Iran war, plus the rising cost of living, mean doctors are facing further pay erosion, causing them to leave the UK to work elsewhere.

De Zerbi has agreed terms over a five-year contract with Spurs, currently one point above the Premier League's bottom three, which does not include a relegation release clause. Spurs are fighting to avoid a first top-flight relegation since 1977 in the final seven games of the season. De Zerbi's appointment "raises serious and far-reaching concerns", says the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust, because of his backing of Mason Greenwood when he was Marseille head coach. Sky Sports News understands the Spurs board carefully considered and discussed the sentiments around De Zerbi's association with Greenwood during the hiring process and their new head coach is expected to address the issue. Is De Zerbi the right coach at the wrong time for Spurs?Merson: De Zerbi best money Spurs will ever spend if they stay upSpurs news & transfers⚪ | Spurs fixtures & scoresGot Sky? Watch Tottenham games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺 De Zerbi has more than a week to prepare for his first game, a trip to Sunderland on April 12, live on Sky Sports, and says climbing the table is Spurs' "short-term priority". The pressure is on to get this appointment right after Igor Tudor's disastrous 44-day spell in which he failed to win a Premier League game. Spurs have moved on three head coaches in the past year. De Zerbi, who was previously reluctant to take a job before the summer after leaving Marseille, says he was convinced to join Spurs on a "long-term contract" after discussions with the club's leadership. "Their ambition for the future has been clear - to build a team capable of reaching great achievements, and to do that playing a style of football that excites and inspires our supporters," De Zerbi told the Spurs website. "I am here because I believe in that ambition and have signed a long-term contract to give everything to deliver it." Sporting director Johan Lange said Spurs are pleased De Zerbi, their first choice to take over in the summer, has agreed to take on the mantle of keeping them in the Premier League. "He is one of the most creative and forward-thinking coaches in world football, and brings with him a wealth of experience at the highest level, including in the Premier League," Lange added. How De Zerbi plans to keep Spurs up Sky Sports News chief correspondent Kaveh Solhekol: Roberto De Zerbi is up for the challenge. Spurs have seven games to avoid their first relegation since 1977, and he feels it is a massive responsibility to ensure their ever-present Premier League status is preserved. Sitting just a point above the drop zone, everybody at Tottenham recognises the perilous position they are in. De Zerbi has made it clear that the sole goal right now is to channel resources into making sure the club stays up. Everything else - building for the long term and restoring Tottenham to the top end of the Premier League - will come later. The Italian is not buying into the talk that a rebuild and wholesale changes are needed. He is well aware of the strengths of the current squad and believes it needs consistency, a firm goal and a clear path to get out of danger. Much has been made of De Zerbi's expansive approach, which his former Brighton captain Lewis Dunk said "baffled" the players when he arrived at the club in September 2022. But it is understood that with Spurs' current predicament, he will not overcomplicate it for the players, instead simplifying the game and tactics in order to maximise returns in the short term. The 46-year-old believes so many changes before him at Spurs have affected the players, and now it is about fighting for a common cause. There have also been question marks over his combustibility, considering his exits at Brighton and Marseille after he fell out with the hierarchies. For De Zerbi, it is a sign of his passion for the job - he makes huge demands of himself, his players, sporting directors and senior executives. He believes challenging each other is the best way to improve and to get the best from everyone. De Zerbi's appointment has faced concerns from several Spurs fan groups after he backed Mason Greenwood when he was Marseille boss. It is understood that he expects questions about this when he is presented to the media for the first time. But ultimately, De Zerbi wants a strong relationship with fans, as he has done at all previous clubs, to help prevent Spurs from dropping into the Championship. 'De Zerbi will be best money Spurs spend if he keeps them up' Sky Sports' Paul Merson: I was quite bullish about Tottenham staying up and then after the Nottingham Forest game [Spurs losing 3-0 at home], you're like, 'Wow. They're in real trouble'. It just shows you what a big club Tottenham is. I know they're struggling at the moment, but to get someone like De Zerbi, who's a top, top manager. To get him to come to the club just tells you everything about how big Tottenham is. So they've got a chance now. I don't care how much money he gets. Whatever he gets, if he keeps them up, it's the best money they've ever, ever, ever spent. He wanted to come in at the start of next season, he's going to come in now. So they have to throw the kitchen sink at him. They have to. They can't afford to go down. Can De Zerbi deliver required instant results? Tottenham, who currently sit one point above the relegation zone, are in need of a head coach who can deliver instant results with just seven games left to secure their survival. De Zerbi has established himself as a coach who instils a possession-based philosophy, creating teams that are praised for their attractive style of football. However, the Italian's start at Brighton when he took over mid-season in 2022 following Graham Potter's departure would suggest he might struggle to have the required impact. De Zerbi failed to win any of his first five Premier League games in charge of Brighton, drawing twice and losing three games, albeit facing a tough schedule. When taking over at Serie A newcomers Benevento mid-season in 2017, De Zerbi's side were praised for the football they played, but were relegated from Italy's top flight. De Zerbi failed to win any of his first nine games in charge of Benevento. The Italian also struggled when taking over Palermo mid-season in 2016, winning just one of his 13 games before being sacked less than three months into the job.

US District Judge Richard Leon granted a preservationist group's request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts the construction project on the site where the East Wing of the White House was demolished. The legal action was brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to obtain an order to pause construction until the plan has undergone independent reviews and obtained congressional approval. The judge wrote: "I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have. "The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!" The judge suspended enforcement of his order for 14 days, acknowledging that the case "raises novel and weighty issues, that halting an ongoing construction project "may raise logistical issues". In response, Mr Trump branded the National Trust for Historic Preservation "a radical left group of lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005". He added that the group "sues me for a ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the taxpayer, and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world". The major construction project has been funded by private donors, including Mr Trump himself. The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will be able to hold 999 people, Mr Trump has said. The US president proceeded with the project before seeking input from federal review panels, the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts. He has stacked both commissions with allies. Mr Trump has championed the ballroom as a defining addition to the White House, and part of his presidential legacy. He has declared it will be the "finest" ballroom in the country. The National Trust first sued Trump and several federal agencies in December after the administration demolished the East Wing, which was originally constructed in 1902 and expanded four decades later under Franklin Roosevelt. The group has argued that the president and the National Park Service doesn't have the authority to tear down the historic structure or build another without the approval of congress. The group launched another legal bid on 26 February, that Justice Leon rejected the challenge as a "ragtag group" of legal theories, adding the group should amend the lawsuit. The Trump administration has said the ballroom will modernise infrastructure, improve security and ease strain on theExecutive Mansion, which often relies on temporary outdoor structures to host large events. Construction had been due to start in April. Mr Trump has embarked on a push to revamp Washington's monuments, including plans for a 76m (250ft) arch and major renovations on the Kennedy Centre.

The French-Canadian singer revealed she had the rare and incurable disease in 2022 and was forced to cancel a world tour. She made an emotional comeback at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in 2024. The upcoming concert series will also take place in the French capital and will be her first in almost six years. In a post on Instagram on her 58th birthday, she described the plans for 10 gigs as the "best gift of my life". "I have to tell you something very important," she said in a video message. "Over these last few years, every day that's gone by, I felt your prayers and support, your kindness and love; even in my most difficult times, you were there for me. "You've helped me in ways that I can't even describe, and I'm truly so fortunate to have your support. I've missed you so much. And that brings me back to my birthday, actually. So this year, I'm getting the best gift of my life. "I'm getting the chance to see you, to perform for you once again in Paris, beginning in September this year." Dion, who is best known for hits including My Heart Will Go On, Think Twice and It's All Coming Back To Me Now, said she was "feeling good" and "excited" about the shows – and "a little nervous" too. She revealed she had been "singing again, even doing a little bit of dancing". "I love it so much," she added. Read more from Sky News:PM gives deadline to doctorsCountdown begins to moon mission Her Instagram post coincided with a series of videos displayed under the lights of the Eiffel Tower on Monday night promoting her announcement. A screen projected onto the tower said: "Paris, I'm ready. Celine Dion." The five-time Grammy winner will perform at the city's La Defense Arena between 12 September and 14 October. Tickets go on sale next week.

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De Zerbi's arrival on a five-year contract "raises serious and far-reaching concerns", the group's strongly worded statement says, adding Spurs were directly warned about the "strength of feeling" among fans. The Trust acknowledges the "immediate priority" is avoiding relegation with Spurs currently one point above the drop zone with seven games to go but says De Zerbi's hiring has the potential to divide the fanbase. Greenwood joined Marseille from Manchester United in 2024 after charges against him, which included attempted rape and assault, were dropped. Last November, De Zerbi described him as a "good guy" who paid a "heavy price". He added at the time: "It saddens me what happened in his life because I know a totally different person than the one who was described." Greenwood was charged in October 2022 with one count of attempted rape, one of controlling and coercive behaviour and another of assault occasioning actual bodily harm over allegations relating to a woman after images and videos were posted online, although the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the charges in February 2023. The charges against former Manchester United forward Greenwood were dropped because of "a combination of the withdrawal of key witnesses and new material that came to light", which meant there was "no realistic prospect of conviction". Sky Sports News understands the Spurs board carefully considered and discussed the sentiments around De Zerbi's association with Greenwood during the hiring process and their new head coach is expected to address the issue. The Trust says De Zerbi's comments about Greenwood "were unnecessary, ill-judged, and deeply offensive to a significant number of supporters". "We believe these statements, left unchecked, will create a divide among supporters at a time when we all need to be pulling together to back the team," the statement read. "It is concerning that the club would put us in this position right when the team needs fans the most. "Fans are rallying behind the 'All Together, Always' initiative, and this appointment places heavy strain on that unity. If those remarks reflect his genuine views, they cast a troubling shadow over the values of the club we love." The Trust, which advocated a short-term appointment until the end of the season before recruiting a permanent replacement for Igor Tudor during the summer, accused the club of risking eroding confidence in its integrity and ethical standards. The statement continued: "We fully understand that the immediate priority is to avoid relegation. However, this situation is the result of prolonged strategic failings. "THST have warned for years that the club was heading in this direction, and the lack of timely, sound decision-making has now left options severely compromised. "It will take significant effort for many fans to restore their faith in the club's leadership. That process must begin with transparency, accountability and a renewed commitment to the principles that define Tottenham Hotspur." 'Spurs spoke to De Zerbi about fan concerns' Sky Sports News' chief correspondent Kaveh Solhekol: "The Tottenham board were aware of the strength of feeling with regards to his appointment and knew some fans would be unhappy about it. They have spoken to Roberto De Zerbi about it. "It has been addressed behind closed doors and it will be addressed in public as well. "When De Zerbi has his first press conference, he will address the media's questions and the concerns of the reporters."