Kayla Smith, 18, and Archie Rycroft, 19, have been remanded in custody to appear before Leeds Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, alongside a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Chloe died in hospital after being found unconscious with stab wounds in Leeds at 5.55am on Saturday.

Another 18-year-old man from the city has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.

An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy who were arrested on suspicion of murder have been released on bail pending further enquiries.

Police were called to an address in Kennerleigh Avenue, in the Austhorpe area, east of Leeds city centre, on Saturday morning following reports that a young woman had been found unconscious.

Flowers have been left at the scene for the teenager.

Chloe's family said in a statement following her death: "My beautiful princess Chloe. I cannot put into words how I feel that you are not here with me.

"You are my life, my world, my best friend and I know that I am yours. I cannot live without you - I need you.

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"You are stunning, confident, loyal, honest and my family-oriented princess.

"When you walk into any room, it lights up with your bubbly personality. There is so much I could say. There's a big hole in my heart that can never be filled."

They added: "Your two sisters and big brother will always love and miss you to infinity. You will always and forever be in our hearts. Love Mum, Connor, Courtney and Cienna."

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Baroness Anne Longfield, the former children's commissioner, made the promise in her first statement since being appointed to run the statutory independent inquiry last December.

In it, she makes clear the inquiry will focus on sexual exploitation by grooming gangs, not other forms of sexual abuse such as individual, familial or institutional.

The inquiry will examine institutions such as police forces and local authorities that failed to protect children and whether "the ethnicity, culture, or religion of either perpetrators or victims influenced patterns of offending, and whether these factors shaped the institutional response".

In what seems like a criticism of previous investigations, the inquiry team said: "These are questions that previous reviews chose not to address. This inquiry will not avoid them."

Baroness Longfield added: "Children across England and Wales were - and still are - sexually abused and exploited by grooming gangs. Raped. Trafficked. Threatened into silence.

"That is not disputed. What has been disputed, what has been minimised, explained away, or buried for far too long, is why the institutions that exist to protect them so often chose not to act."

The inquiry, which is expected to have offices in London, Leeds and Wales, will finish its work by March 2028 with a budget of £65m.

There are several headwinds the inquiry team is trying to face down: the fact the chair is not a judge; the previous squeamishness of others about ethnicity; and an overriding sense from survivors, who've already been badly failed by the state, that this will be another whitewash.

Over the last three months, the team has been meeting dozens of victims and survivors experiencing this scepticism and questions about whether it will make a difference.

This, they said, has helped determine the terms of reference, and the team has offered reassurance and promised to publish as they go so that institutions under investigation will have the evidence exposed when found. There is also a pledge to look back over 30 years - beginning in 1996.

It has promised to investigate how grooming gangs operated and were able to do so for so long, what police forces, social services, local authorities and schools knew, and what they did or didn't do.

While Baroness Longfield is not a judge, she will use some of her budget to employ legal assistance, and the Inquiry will have statutory powers which can force reluctant witnesses to give evidence.

There is an emphasis on the experience of the Baroness and her two panel members: Zoë Billingham, who has spent much of her career inspecting public services and Eleanor Kelly, the former Southwark chief executive who oversaw the response to the Grenfell disaster.

Baroness Longfield said: "Together, we bring decades of experience in protecting and promoting the interests of children, holding police forces and institutions to account, safeguarding vulnerable women and girls from violence and abuse, and providing strong local leadership in times of crisis."

Alongside the national inquiry, there will be an unspecified number of local inquiries, each with a £5m budget. One will be in Oldham, and there has been local pressure for one in Bradford.

It was January last year when the government came under political pressure for this inquiry after a series of tweets by Elon Musk about grooming gangs in the UK. The prime minister ordered a rapid national audit but initially resisted a full national Inquiry.

Then, in June, Louise Casey's audit found "ignorance, prejudice, and defensiveness contributed to a collective failure to protect children" and that data collection on ethnicity was flawed.

At this point, the government promised a full national statutory inquiry.

It took until October for two candidates for chair to be mooted, but both withdrew after a poor reaction from survivors, many of whom wanted a judge to lead it. Then, in December, Baroness Longfield was appointed.

In recent days, Conservative MP Robbie Moore has expressed concern that evidence may have been destroyed because of the length of time it took for the government to instruct institutions to preserve records.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "Since Baroness Casey's National Audit, we have worked across government to ensure records relevant to the draft Terms of Reference are appropriately retained by public sector organisations."

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: "The grooming gangs scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country's history, where the most vulnerable people were abused and exploited at the hands of evil child rapists.

"The chair and I have agreed that the Inquiry will be laser-focused on grooming gangs and will explicitly examine the role of ethnicity, religion and culture of the offenders and in the response of institutions.

"There will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes."

The inquiry is due to begin its investigation on 13 April.

The UK, Germany, France and Italy said the move was "de facto discriminatory" and "Israel risks undermining its commitments to democratic principles".

A joint statement called the death penalty "an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterrent effect".

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper posted the statement on X, adding: "The death penalty is wrong and we oppose it around the world."

Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who wore noose-shaped lapel pins in the run-up to the vote, has campaigned for tougher punishments for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offences against Israelis.

"We have made history," Mr Ben-Gvir said, in a post on X. "Any terrorist who goes out to kill should know - he will be sent to the gallows".

He was also scathing about criticism from the European Union, adding: "We are not afraid, we do not yield".

Law allows 'extrajudicial killings'

The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs said the law "constitutes a decision to carry out institutionalised extrajudicial killings according to racist standards".

"The ministry affirms that Israel has no sovereignty over Palestinian land and that Israeli laws do not apply to the Palestinian people," it added.

Opponents of the bill, under which executions should be carried out within 90 days of sentencing, said it was racist, draconian and unlikely to deter attacks by Palestinian militants.

Critics include Israelis and Palestinians, international rights groups and the UN, some of whom fear the death penalty could be applied solely to Palestinians convicted of murdering Jewish citizens of Israel.

The sentence will be applied by a military court to anyone convicted of murdering an Israeli "as an act of terror".

Such courts try only West Bank Palestinians, who are not Israeli citizens. The bill says military courts can change the penalty to life imprisonment in "special circumstances".

Israel's courts, which try Israeli citizens, including Palestinian citizens of Israel, can choose between life imprisonment or the death penalty in cases of murder aiming to harm Israeli citizens and residents or "with the intent of rejecting the existence of the state of Israel".

'Discriminatory by design'

Amichai Cohen, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute's Centre for Democratic Values and Institutions, said the distinction is discriminatory as it means, in effect, Jews "will not be indicted under this law".

In addition, the West Bank is not sovereign Israeli territory, so under international law, Israel's parliament should not be legislating over it, Mr Cohen said.

The Association of Civil Rights in Israel said it had petitioned the country's highest court to challenge the law, calling it "discriminatory by design" and "enacted without legal authority" over West Bank Palestinians.

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Israel has the death penalty on its books, but the country hasn't put anyone to death since Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962.

The bill will not apply retroactively to any of the militants Israel currently holds who attacked the country on 7 October 2023.

Molly, not her real name, has chosen to speak publicly after the attack in 2022 by a man who was wrongly given access to her Berkshire hotel room.

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Attacker Kyran Smith, who had falsely claimed to be her partner, was jailed in February for seven and a half years.

The hotel was forced to apologise for initially offering the victim £30 as compensation, though it has since acknowledged the response was "inappropriate".

Since the conviction, Molly has met with the hotel CEO, Jo Boydell, and a number of Labour MPs who are leading a campaign for tightened security across the sector.

But she has told Sky News she is "frustrated" by Ms Boydell's handling of the issue, citing "very slow progress" and a lack of accountability.

"It has changed my opinion on staying in hotels on my own," she added.

"It doesn't matter what personal details anyone has about anyone; that's still not an OK thing to do. Even if it was my husband or partner, did that give them consent just from showing a picture of me?"

Travelodge boss 'desperately sorry'

Travelodge's Ms Boydell said the incident had left her "absolutely horrified".

Responding to the victim's criticism of how it had been handled, the chief executive said she was "desperately sorry for what happened to the survivor and really sorry for the way that it took us so long to actually escalate that and handle that properly in the way that we are now".

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In response to the public outcry, Travelodge said it has made immediate changes to its security policy, and no extra room keys will be permitted without the explicit consent of the guest on the booking.

Ms Boydell has also met with MPs, including representatives of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, to discuss what went wrong and how hotels can be safer places for women.

But since then, the boss has refused to engage with a larger group of MPs, which has drawn criticism from the prime minister himself, who urged Ms Boydell to "seriously" consider the invitation for wider engagement.

"It has taken me aback," Molly said of Sir Keir's intervention.

"I'm genuinely very happy that they're taking it seriously. My frustration is purely with the hotel, how they've dealt with everything."

'Apologies only go so far'

MPs have expressed similar frustrations. Labour MP and ex-police officer Matt Bishop is one of two MPs looking at how security in hotels can be more consistent going forward.

"This case should have been a moment for leadership and accountability – but instead, it risks reinforcing the very concerns that have been raised from the outset," he told Sky News.

"I am also quite shocked that the survivor has had to wait for three and a half years, a criminal court case, a media headline-breaking story and a letter from parliamentarians for this to happen. It is not good enough to just say that you were not aware – what has changed to ensure this never happens again?"

Fellow MP and campaigner Jen Craft said: "It is a step forward to see the CEO finally beginning to face up to these serious issues publicly, but this has taken far too long – and only after the victim has told her story so bravely.

"Apologies only go so far, and it's clear there is still a long way to go for Travelodge to reassure guests about safety in their hotels.

"The CEO must explain how this catastrophic failure in safeguarding was not escalated at the time and meaningfully engage with a wider group of MPs about new measures to tackle violence against women and girls in their hotels."

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Travelodge maintains it is taking the situation with the "utmost seriousness" and has commissioned an independent review into what happened.

A spokesperson added: "We have offered that all MPs interested in this important issue can feed into the independent review in writing so their contributions can be fully taken into account.

"Our immediate priority is to progress this important work at pace, progressing our independent review and further strengthening our processes."

Sky News understands the chain also wants to work with MPs about any legislative change, which is currently being explored.

After the Easter break, a cross-party group of ministers plans on meeting with hotel bosses to discuss options, with victims' minister Alex Davies-Jones saying "nothing is off the table".

The 32-storey Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Wednesday, sending four astronauts on a 10-day flight ending with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

At a briefing by NASA on Monday, Emily Nelson, chief flight director, said teams in mission control and crew members are "ready to go".

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The Artemis I mission didn't have any astronauts on board but was successfully sent into orbit around the moon in November 2022.

Artemis II takes it a step further with a crew on board, but it won't be until Artemis III that astronauts will actually land on the moon.

The US space agency hopes to use Artemis to build a base camp on the surface and potentially use it to get a human to Mars.

After a liquid hydrogen leak during a practice launch in February, NASA was forced to delay the operation until Wednesday.

At 98m tall, the SLS rocket is roughly the height of Parliament's Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben. Not since Apollo 17 in 1972 have humans touched down on ​the moon's surface.

The astronauts on board are NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency.

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British astronaut Major Tim Peake has said Europe, including the UK, is heavily involved in the Artemis programme.

"We were there on Artemis I... we built the European service module which powers the Orion spacecraft that provides all the electrical power, the life support systems, the propellant," he said.

NASA has the first six days of April to launch Artemis II before standing down until the end of the month.