The schoolgirl was murdered by Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool in August 2023 after a brutal campaign of abuse - which a judge at the Old Bailey later described as "torture".

Her body was found in a bunk bed at the family home, after a crying Urfan Sharif dialled 999 from Pakistan, saying he had "killed" and "beaten" his daughter.

The 10-year-old was covered in fractures, bruises and burns.

It became clear that in the weeks before her death, Sara had been beaten at home with items such as a cricket bat and metal pole, and burnt with an iron. She had clearly also suffered a traumatic head injury.

She had been known to social services from birth, and was twice placed in foster care by the time she was three. Later in life, she would be moved between the custody of her father and mother - with both accusing the other of abuse.

In December 2024, a local Child Safeguarding Practice Review was instigated, and its independent report has now been published, concluding that "the system failed Sara" - from social services to the NHS and education.

"Sara's death was not caused by one specific malfunction within the safeguarding system," it said. "Numerous factors came together over many years, which cumulatively laid the foundations for the severe abuse she experienced."

The Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership said: "All agencies represented by the Partnership take the findings of this report extremely seriously and will work urgently together to agree a joint action plan that puts in place the local learnings from the review."

The report also contained 15 recommendations, which included calls on the Department for Education to close loopholes around at-risk children being withdrawn from school.

The report also demanded safeguarding teams be better trained in understanding the manipulative behaviours of domestic abusers.

It said agencies must ensure more robust, joined-up safeguarding processes when children are first referred to social care, and called for the impact of culture, race and language to be considered in safeguarding decisions.

Surrey County Council says it will be "working to implement all local recommendations relating to the organisation in full. Many of those are well under way or already complete, but practice is continuously reviewed and this report will help all partners improve further".

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In a statement, Terence Herbert, chief executive of Surrey County Council, said: "We are deeply sorry for the findings in the report related to us as a local authority. We have already taken robust action to address those relating to Surrey County Council, and that work will continue with every recommendation implemented in full."

Sharif and Batool were respectively sentenced to at least 40 and 33 years for the murder, while Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment after being found guilty of causing or allowing Sara's death.

Flooding is likely, with some areas facing up to 150mm (6in) of rain.

The warning is in place from noon until the end of the day, and covers parts of Wales, the Midlands, the South West, South East and East of England.

Check the weather forecast where you are

The storm, named by Spain's meteorological service, has also triggered weather warnings in Spain and Portugal, and is currently affecting the Canary Islands.

Claudia could result in travel disruptions, power cuts, and flooding, according to the Met Office.

Flooding in some areas could be severe, the Sky Weather team warned.

Southern Britain can expect 30mm (1.2in) to 50mm (2in) widely, with 80mm (3.1in) for parts of east Wales and central England, but the far south of England should escape the worst of it, according to the Sky Weather team.

The easterly flow means east-facing hills could see much more rain, potentially up to 150mm (6in) in southeast Wales.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Matthew Lehnert said: "Storm Claudia will bring very heavy rainfall to a large swathe of central and southern England and Wales on Friday into Saturday.

"This rain will become slow-moving, and some areas could see up to a month's worth of rain in 24 hours."

Ireland's meteorological service, Met Eireann, has also issued weather warnings for parts of Ireland, with significant rain likely in the south-east into the weekend.

The rain is the main hazard from Storm Claudia, but a strong easterly wind will develop, bringing gusts up to 70mph to parts of northwest Wales and north-west England, the Met Office said.

A colder weekend

By the weekend, the north of the UK will see a colder air mass, with overnight frosts, according to the Met Office.

Some showers will persist, but overall it will be a considerably drier and brighter period of weather in this area.

Further south, the weekend will start off largely cloudy and wet, and still mild in the far south. Gradually, the rain will ease and eventually clear to the south, with the drier, colder conditions further north spreading to all areas by the start of next week.

Early next week, temperatures will drop sharply across the country, particularly in the north and east, bringing the first snow of the season in some areas.

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Warnings in Spain and Portugal

An elderly couple in eastern Portugal died inside their flooded house on Thursday due to Storm Claudia, the Portuguese Authority of Civil Protection told Sky News.

The couple lived in Fernao Ferro, in the municipality of Seixal, around 26km (16 miles) south of the capital Lisbon.

Half of the country was under red and orange weather warnings on Thursday, with nearly 14,000 people left without electricity.

Parts of Spain have also been under orange and yellow weather warnings on Thursday due to Storm Claudia.

The hackers whose cyber attack took down production at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) a couple of months ago have single-handedly caused a fall in UK gross domestic product.

Were it not for the 28.6% collapse in car production we saw in September (save for the pandemic, the biggest monthly drop in car output in modern record), the UK economy would have grown by 0.1% that month. Instead, it fell by 0.1%.

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Now, there are many provisos. These monthly numbers are volatile at the best of times. And the JLR hack wasn't the only thing going on with vehicle production in September. It so happens some van plants were also down that month.

Even so, even if you conservatively assume that only about half of the drop in output was due to the hack (which is a massively conservative assumption), the fact remains: hackers have caused a fall in official GDP figures, published only a few weeks ahead of the budget.

It is very rare - unheard of nearly - for a single company to be able to impact overall GDP numbers.

That this episode has done precisely that says something - about the profundity of the problems the hack caused at JLR and its suppliers, about the concentration of Britain's car industry (there used to be plenty more producers) but also about the relatively precarious position of the wider economy right now. After all, the main reason this cyber attack was the difference between rising and falling GDP is that GDP was so close to zero even before taking this into account.

And that says something deeper about where Britain's economy is right now.

Even when you ignore JLR and its travails, economic output is essentially flatlining.

After a relatively strong start to the year, activity is depressed. And that has a bearing on all of our lives. For one thing, it means we are getting better off less quickly.

Second, it has consequences for the public finances. The less extra money is being generated across the country (which, ultimately, is what GDP is measuring), the less tax revenue comes into the Exchequer and the bigger the deficit the Treasury faces.

Part of the reason the chancellor is expected to raise taxes at the budget later this month is that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - which produces the official government forecasts - is expected to cut its estimate for underlying economic growth, which, all else equal, raises the scale of the deficit.

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These are far from the only issues facing the chancellor.

She has to reckon with an ever lengthening list of things to be tackled: she needs to pay for the U-turns already performed by this government on winter fuel and benefits reforms, to address long term worklessness, to try to protect the capital spending she committed to only last year, not to mention dealing with the consequences of a global trade war. I could go on, but you get the point.

Achieving any of that with an economy growing at what was previously considered the "trend" rate of about 2.5% would have been hard enough. Achieving it with economic growth on a knife-edge is an extraordinarily challenging task - for any chancellor.

An American pop culture institution, SNL launched the careers of stars including Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell - and now a "new generation" of British comedians is set to be cast in the first UK spin-off on Sky.

While the show's stars are yet to be revealed, details of the creative team behind it have now been announced.

Two-time Emmy winner James Longman will serve as lead producer, BAFTA winner and live broadcast specialist Liz Clare will direct the series, while writer, comedian and composer Daran Jonno Johnson takes on the role of head writer.

Longman's credits include The Late Late Show With James Corden, for which he produced famous sketches with stars and notable figures including Sir Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise and then president Joe Biden.

He also worked on the Friends reunion special in 2021 and hit UK shows such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, The F Word and The Friday Night Project.

Clare's directing credits include An Audience With Adele, The Brits and MTV awards ceremonies, Glastonbury, the BAFTAs and shows such as The Voice UK and Britain's Got Talent, while Johnson, who is part of the acclaimed sketch group SHEEPS, has written for shows including Wedding Season for Disney+, Siblings for the BBC and Rose d'Or winner Parlement for France.TV.

Saturday Night Live UK marks the first time the US producers have adapted the show, which celebrated 50 years on air earlier this year, for a British audience.

Channel 4 ran several series of a similar programme on Saturday and Friday nights in the 1980s, featuring comedians like Ben Elton and Harry Enfield, but it was domestically produced.

'A lot of big US comedy is stolen from the UK'

Comedian Pete Davidson, another SNL star, told Sky News he's excited about the UK version - and that it is about time the UK is able to take from US comedy, rather than the other way round.

Speaking in the summer during promotion for The Pickup, Davidson said: "I think it's a smart idea to have SNL over there because... not that it's a different brand of comedy, but it is a little bit.

"A lot of the biggest stuff that's in the States is stuff that we stole from you guys, like The Office or literally anything Ricky Gervais does... there's just tonnes of great comedy over there. Jimmy Carr is a great stand-up."

Also highlighting Jack Whitehall, he continued: "I think anything that's great over there, we just kind of steal... and it doesn't seem like the other way around. This is the first time I've ever heard anything American going to the UK, so I think it's great."

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Producers say the UK series will follow the same format as the original, featuring "a new generation of comedy players in the core cast, alongside guest hosts and musical performances".

The UK show will be overseen by US producer Lorne Michaels. Along with his production company Broadway Video, which has made The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and 30 Rock, the show will be led by UK production team Universal Television Alternative Studio.

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The loan schemes typically involved paying freelance employees in "loans", via a third party, that would not have to be paid back. Loans, unlike salaries, are not subject to income tax.

But controversial legislation was brought in by the Conservatives in 2019 to recover backdated income tax from contract and agency workers who were paid their salaries in loans.

It has outraged MPs across the political spectrum as it has been linked to 10 suicides and driven people to bankruptcy.

Sky News understands the former HMRC official leading the review into the loan charge has suggested a new settlement mechanism based on income and profession, where the least well off would be offered the most respite.

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Campaigners argue that the 50,0000 or so affected are victims of mis-selling, as the loan schemes were promoted as legitimate by professional accountants who made commission getting clients into these arrangements.

HMRC has been accused of failing to warn people off these schemes at the time, with the loan charge designed to let it go back 10 years and demand multiple years of unpaid tax in one go, resulting in huge bills.

The review, led by former HMRC inspector Ray McCann, focused on barriers to settling tax liabilities, with some 40,000 people yet to reach a resolution.

Greg Smith, the Conservative chair of the loan charge All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), told Sky News there needed to be a fair deal for all "and not just those Labour finds politically convenient".

How did the schemes work?

A large proportion of those affected by the loan schemes were working in IT, finance and other contract-based industries. However, umbrella companies supplying public sector agency workers used these schemes too - and it is this group who are expected to be offered the most help.

While no final decision has been made, campaigners point to a meeting in the spring with Mr McCann and the loan charge APPG, where he is said to have described a plan to recommend settlements based on categories.

The categories suggested included income type, different professions, and how and why people got into the schemes, according to a letter from the APPG to Mr McCann which recounts the meeting.

The letter says Mr McCann acknowledged his plan was "probably a wee bit unfair".

It adds: "You said that you believe that people on the lower end of the income scale are "less sophisticated" and less likely to have access to tax advice.

"Whilst the latter may be the case for many, the reality is that the mis-selling happened to people across the income scale."

One campaigner said the meeting points to a wider "subtle narrative about the deserving and undeserving" and they believe that politically, the government is gearing up "to let off nurses and social workers" while claiming the rest largely knew what they were doing.

Mr Smith said such a plan would be "morally reprehensible" if it went ahead.

He told Sky News: "There is significant talk of the government looking at only subsets of loan charge victims to offer respite too.

"Whilst potentially good for those set for reprieve, it would be morally reprehensible not to apply equity across all victims, recognising the huge impact this has had on so many lives and families.

"We need proper and fair settlement for all victims, not just those Labour see as politically convenient."

A government spokesperson said they would set out their position by the time of Rachel Reeves' budget later this month - when she is widely expected to raise income tax to repair a hole in the public finances.

Ministers have previously hinted at some sort of compromise, saying they want to help people who can't resolve their debts while "ensuring fairness for all taxpayers".

HMRC says the schemes, which they call disguised remuneration, allowed people to avoid paying £20k of income tax per year on average and that they were never allowed.

MPs and campaigners have previously branded the review a "sham", as it did not look into the principle of retrospective tax legislation, HMRC's conduct or the schemes' promoters - only ways to make people pay.

Steve Packham, a spokesman for the Loan Charge Action Group, said: "The concern is that the McCann Review will focus only on helping lower-income public sector workers, when this would be discriminatory and manifestly unfair.

"People in all sorts of roles and professions are clear victims of the same industrial mis-selling by chartered accountants, tax advisers, recruitment agencies and scheme promoters, all of whom made huge sums recommending these arrangements."

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