Outside, it’s the dark middle of winter. We are right in the middle of some of the best farmland in the country. But inside the cavernous warehouse we arrived at, you would have no idea of any of this: there is no daylight; it feels like it could be any time of day, any season … Read more
Several months before farmers hit the headlines, after protesting in Whitehall against the new government’s inheritance tax rules, we at Sky News embarked on a project. Most of our stories are relatively short stories, recorded and edited for the evening news. We capture snapshots of life in households, businesses and communities across the country. But … Read more
The mother of a young man crushed to death in a work accident said her son was “full of hopes and dreams” and her family had been “deprived” of sharing those with him. Laborer Liam MacDonald, 23, was using a hammer to shred dried concrete from a skip at the Shetland Islands wind farm site … Read more