Andrew was arrested on Thursday by Thames Valley Police on ‌suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations he sent confidential government documents to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when he was a trade envoy.

As part of a separate inquiry, the Metropolitan Police has said it was identifying and ​contacting former and serving officers who may have worked closely with the former prince, asking them to "consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard" during their service could be relevant for their investigation.

"Wherever he [Andrew] went, he would have had a team of protection officers and they would have been with him normally 24 hours a day," Dai Davies, who was in charge of royal protection for the late Queen Elizabeth and the wider Royal Family, told Sky News.

He said even at night, protection officers would be with Andrew, "so that in the event of an incident, they could act in accordance with their training".

"Many of them had been with him for years, and they would have gone to all the five residences [of Jeffrey Epstein] that we've been talking about in the United States, Virgin Islands, New Mexico, and Florida," he said.

"So it's inconceivable to me, I'm sad to say, that nobody saw anything."

The Metropolitan Police previously said it was looking into whether Andrew's protection officers turned a "blind eye" to his visits to Epstein's island, Little St James.

Police are yet to identify whether there has been any wrongdoing by close protection officers.

'Big questions' for rest of staff - and palace

But the investigation should not just focus on royal protection officers, Mr Davies added.

"It should be about all the private secretaries, those who advise the late Queen [and] the King. There are so many people and those who have been named, they should be part now of an investigation," he said.

As for the palace's reaction to the latest revelations, which included stripping Andrew of his royal titles, Mr Davies believes "it's a little late now for people to be doing what they have".

He said: "There was no internal inquiry as far as I know. And if there was, where was it? Who did it? So there are big questions of the palace, unfortunately."

Meanwhile, former prime minister Gordon Brown is calling for investigations into whether Andrew used jets, funded by the taxpayer, and RAF bases during his time as trade envoy to meet up with the convicted sex offender, The Sunday Telegraph reports.

As part of its separate probe, the Metropolitan Police said it was assessing, with the help of US counterparts, whether London airports "may have been used to facilitate human trafficking and sexual exploitation".

The former prince has only been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

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Andrew has vigorously denied any wrongdoing over his links to convicted sex offender Epstein, but has not directly responded to the latest allegations.

King Charles said in a statement after his brother's arrest that "the law must take its course" and the police have "our full and wholehearted support and co-operation".

Thames Valley Police officers are expected to continue their search at Andrew's former home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor, Berkshire, over the coming days.

Call for 'treason' probe into Andrew's Epstein links

Conservative former security minister Tom Tugendhat is calling for a parliamentary investigation into Andrew and Peter Mandelson's links to Epstein, telling The Sun on Sunday: "This goes beyond what a court could reasonably consider. Parliament must consider what it means for the country.

"If the worst is proved, do we need to revisit treason laws written 700 years ago?"

It comes as an influential group of MPs is understood to be meeting to discuss whether to launch a parliamentary probe into the role of UK trade envoys.

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The inquiry would focus on potential issues within the wider system and lessons to be learned, without specific commentary on Andrew, who was in the role for 10 years, until there is no risk of prejudicing criminal proceedings.

Sky News understands that the government is also to consider introducing legislation to remove Andrew from the royal line of succession.

Any such move by the government would only happen once the ongoing police investigation into the former duke has concluded.

Andrew is still eighth in line to the throne, behind Prince William and his three children, and Prince Harry and his two children, despite having his royal titles removed by the King last year as part of the fallout from his association with Epstein.

Removing him from the line of succession would require the agreement of other countries which share the UK monarch, including Australia, Canada and Jamaica.

The president has announced a tariff of 15% globally.

Now you might be thinking "didn't he set it at 10% on Friday?" Yes he did. But now he's raised it to 15%.

The latest pronouncement came - on Truth Social, of course - just before lunchtime on Saturday.

Here's the full post and we've highlighted the key bits:

What does all this mean? It's a good question and one which governments globally are asking themselves, not for the first time.

The president is using a new statute - a new avenue effectively - to levy duties on foreign goods temporarily, because the old statute, which he'd been using since Liberation Day last April, was deemed illegal.

That happened on Friday when the Supreme Court (the highest court in the land) ruled by a majority of six to three that the president's methods to impose tariffs were unconstitutional.

Six of the justices ruled the tariffs exceed the powers given to the president by Congress under a 1977 law providing him the authority to regulate commerce during national emergencies created by foreign threats.

So the president and his team are looking for new ways - new statutes - to recoup some of his losses (should he have to repay the tariffs - the Supreme Court, unhelpfully, did not pass judgment on this) and to replace his tariff system.

Remember this vital point: so much of Trump's policies, his power, his ability to call the world to heel has been based on his ability to strike any country he wants with crippling tariffs.

So, his immediate response to the Supreme Court decision was to use a different mechanism - Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to be precise - to impose 10% global tariffs.

He had the option to impose 15%, not 10%, and on Saturday, just a day after setting it at 10, he raised it to 15.

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That can only last 150 days. That's why he says in his social media post that he will look for new ways of levying duties.

As ever with all this, nothing is clear-cut. There are exemptions, including on agricultural products, steel and cars, but there is confusion over this as governments seek clarity.

It's a whole world of mess and uncertainty, again, for the whole world.

A therapist asks seven-year-old Razan what she can see. She names objects as they appear in front of her: a train, toys, animals, the sea.

The prompts are gentle: reach for the cube, use the hand you can, tell me what you are feeling. It is therapy, but it looks like play.

Razan was injured last year when she went outside to get water for her family. A shell landed nearby, the shrapnel careering into her leg.

A series of surgeries followed, including one reconstruction attempt that failed. The injury is still impossible to miss - Razan's leg is misshapen where a chunk of her flesh and muscle has gone.

Doctors told the family there was little more they could do for her inside Gaza, where medical facilities have been so badly affected by two years of war.

Only by leaving the Strip and seeking treatment abroad was there hope of a proper recovery, they said. For a young child, the news felt like a second attack.

Her mother, Rana Abu Harbid, says the trauma was so severe that Razan stopped eating for days, surviving only on water before collapsing and being taken back to hospital. Nightmares still wake her.

Now, after months of support from this team, Razan's mental health is improving. But it is slow progress, with no guarantees.

"She slowly began to improve, and she started to forget, little by little," says Rana. "But the nightmares still come back, and she wakes terrified, shaking, feeling like the ground is moving."

During the sessions, a group of children sit in a circle and are given headsets to wear along with hand-operated controllers.

Virtual reality allows them to feel like they are entering new places, without moving out of the chair.

Suddenly, from Gaza's grey world of rubble, dust and destruction, a child can find themselves watching animals roam, fish swim, or cartoon characters cavort happily.

In the same office, two brothers, Ahmad and Amjad, 17 and 13, talk about what the VR sessions give them.

Ahmad says that when the pressure of the war closes in on him, the headset helps him feel able to breathe again. Amjad says it takes him from war and destruction into a world of nature.

Theirs, too, is a story of lives that were ripped apart in a moment when an Israeli airstrike hit their home. Ahmad says he was thrown into the air "like a piece of paper".

Shrapnel hit him, some going into his face. He's now blind in one of his eyes.

He says he thought he was going to die because his twin brother had been killed earlier that year, and death felt close.

Amjad's injuries were even more severe. He was taken straight into surgery.

Later, he was wrapped in a blanket and taken toward the hospital mortuary, assumed to be dead, until he was able to move his hand to show he was alive.

Their mother, Nissma, describes waking up to dust and rubble. The place where the boys had been sleeping was buried under stones.

She found Ahmad covered in blood and realised his eye was gone. She then went looking for Amjad, believing he was trapped beneath the debris.

Months later, both boys are still being treated. Shrapnel remains in their bodies.

Amjad says there is nothing more doctors in Gaza can do for some of his injuries and that he needs to travel outside the Strip for surgery.

For many families here, that possibility feels distant.

Only a very small number of people are allowed to leave Gaza to seek medical treatment each day, and thousands upon thousands want that opportunity.

The VR sessions are part of a project run by TechMed Gaza.

A staff member, Lama Abu Dalal, explains that the idea began after a child injured in the war showed severe psychological symptoms, refusing to eat or drink, avoiding people, crying constantly.

VR was tried as a way to reduce those symptoms, with positive results.

Since then, the project has worked with around 180 cases, using structured sessions inside the headset, breathing exercises, walking exercises, and natural environments.

Lama says they have seen children who could not walk because of fear take their first steps while wearing the headset, showing that the barrier was psychological, not physical.

The work is limited by what they have. There are only a few headsets. When one breaks, there are no replacement parts.

With crossings closed, no new equipment comes in. Fewer headsets means fewer children can be seen.

All of this is happening against a backdrop of ongoing instability. A ceasefire announced late last year is still officially in place, but it is fragile.

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Strikes have continued. People are still being killed. Life in the camps remains precarious.

In the office, Razan takes off the headset. The forest and the sea disappear. Outside, the camp is still there.

For a few minutes, the children here are somewhere else.

Then they step back into Gaza as it is.

The avalanche hit on Castle Peak, about 10 miles (16km) north of Lake Tahoe, on Tuesday, but the recovery of the victims' bodies took until Saturday as the search and rescue operation was hindered by intense snowfall.

Six of the victims were part of a close-knit group of friends who were experienced off-piste skiers, their families said in a statement, adding that they were carrying avalanche safety equipment.

The women in their 40s were named as Carrie Atkin, Danielle Keatley, Kate Morse, Kate Vitt and sisters Liz Clabaugh and Caroline Sekar.

"We are devastated beyond words. Our focus right now is supporting our children through this incredible tragedy and honouring the lives of these extraordinary women," the families said.

"They were all mothers, wives and friends, all of whom connected through the love of the outdoors."

'Best people I've ever known'

Tributes described the women as kind people and dedicated mothers.

Danielle Keatley, from the San Francisco city of Larkspur, "was warm, kind and exuded a special quality that drew people to her", Larkspur's mayor Stephanie Andre said.

Fellow Larkspur resident Rob Bramble added that she was "just a great mum".

Carrie Atkin, who lived in Lake Tahoe with her husband and two children, was a former corporate executive who had attended Harvard on a track and field scholarship.

"Everybody liked Carrie. She was a good person," her high school hurdling coach, Jerome Bearden, said after hearing about her death from a former student.

Sisters Liz Clabaugh and Caroline Sekar were "two of the best people I've ever known", their brother McAlister Clabaugh told the New York Times.

"They were incredible sisters, mothers, wives and friends. And the idea that they are both gone is, I don't even know how to put it into words," he said.

'Enormous tragedy'

The three other victims killed in the avalanche were guides Andrew Alissandratos, 34, Nicole Choo, 42, and Michael Henry, 30.

They worked for Blackbird Mountain Guides, whose founder, Zeb Blais, wrote in a statement on Wednesday: "This was an enormous tragedy, and the saddest event our team has ever experienced.

"We are doing what we can to support the families who lost so much, and the members of our team who lost treasured friends and colleagues."

Six people survived the avalanche, including two members of the friend group, three skiers and one guide.

They were rescued on Tuesday after calling for help around 11.30am, describing a terrifying avalanche the length of a football field that had struck the group of 15.

'Many unanswered questions'

The families of the six friends said they "have many unanswered questions".

It is not clear what triggered the avalanche, which is the deadliest in modern California history.

Officials said the group was on a "normally travelled route". Authorities are investigating whether "there were any factors that would be considered criminal negligence", according to Sky News' US partner network NBC.

"The information we have at this time is that this was the last day of their three-day tour, and they did decide to leave early to try to get off the mountain early" to avoid the impending snowstorm, according to Shannan Moon, the sheriff of Nevada County, California.

Eight of the skiers had been found dead by Thursday, with the last missing person discovered "relatively close" to the other victims on Saturday, Lieutenant Dennis Hack from the Nevada County sheriff's office said.

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He said it was impossible to see the final victim because there were white-out conditions when the others were located.

Five of the bodies were transported off the mountain on Friday, with the remaining four recovered on Saturday.

"While we wish we could have saved them all, we are grateful that we can bring them home," Ms Moon said.

The revelation comes in a Commons select committee report into the controversial decision to exclude Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from a Europa League match at Aston Villa in November that already forced out the chief constable, Craig Guildford.

Sky News previously found discrepancies in how the force represented evidence from Amsterdam police about unrest around a Maccabi match at Ajax in 2024.

Now, a Home Affairs Select Committee report says: "We have since seen confidential evidence which indicates that some of the key claims presented by West Midlands Police in relation to the Amsterdam disorder originated from a query to Microsoft Copilot AI.

"Senior officers later quoted this inaccurate information, including in meetings of the SAG [Safety Advisory Group] and in oral evidence to us, suggesting that proper due diligence was not applied."

WMP have been found to have overstated the threat posed by Maccabi fans - in part based on evidence about their conduct in Amsterdam - and understated the threat posed to them in Birmingham, with tensions inflamed by the Israel-Gaza war.

The force previously said AI was responsible for the fact its report referenced a match between the Israeli club and West Ham United that never happened.

Police twice insisted in committee hearings that Copilot was not responsible before admitting it was and apologising.

MPs say Mr Guildford was not informed of this before he gave evidence to the committee on 6 January, but say it was known within the force.

The committee report states: "It should not have taken two oral evidence sessions and a subsequent written correction to achieve candour and accuracy; this raises serious questions about the culture of transparency and commitment to accuracy in West Midlands Police."

The decision to ban Maccabi fans, ratified by Birmingham City Council's Safety Advisory Group (SAG), was condemned by Prime Minister Keir Starmer when it was announced in October.

But the report criticises the government's failure to prevent the ban, since the Home Office and Department for Culture, Media and Sport were informed a week before SAG's decision was made public.

The Israeli team's fans could still have been able to come "if the government had intervened privately", the committee concludes.

Relations with Jewish community were 'significantly damaged'

MPs say that Birmingham councillors had a "disproportionate opportunity to exert influence [....] on a deeply divisive political issue", undermining trust that decisions were based on evidence and safety.

While the MPs add that they received no evidence "to suggest that antisemitism was a motivating factor in the decision", they believe the failure to consult the Jewish community "significantly damaged relations with the Jewish community, and provided a basis for some to perceive the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans as antisemitic".

The force only admitted in September that it had intelligence suggesting locals in Birmingham apparently wanted to "arm" themselves against Maccabi fans. The Aston area has a large Muslim population and strong pro-Palestinian activism.

WMP only revealed their main reason for the ban in an exclusive Sky News interview in November last year, citing hooliganism and racist violence by Maccabi fans in 2024 when they played against Ajax in Amsterdam. Although it was locals who were convicted for attacking Maccabi supporters.

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Police force must 'repair the damage'

Its chair, Dame Karen Bradley, has called on WMP to "repair the damage" with Jewish communities.

She said: "They must also ensure that there is a cultural shift around decision making where assumptions are tested and evidence fully checked."

In a statement that does not mention the Jewish community, WMP today said they have since met "local representatives" to repair damage and "remain fully committed to learning from these events".

The force said it could not comment further as there are ongoing police watchdog investigations.

Mr Guildford retired early as chief constable last month after apologising for misleading the committee about the row, as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she had no confidence in him.

WMP said in a new statement: "We remain fully committed to learning from these events and have already made early efforts through a series of meetings with key local representatives to repair any damage caused by the loss of confidence that the public has in us.

"Following the release of the findings from the Home Affairs Committee investigation, West Midlands Police will work through the recommendations made and the Acting Chief Constable would welcome the opportunity to provide an update to the Committee in the future."