The competitors landed at London's Gatwick Airport on Monday morning after securing a record-equalling tally of medals.

They were led out of arrivals to cheers from the waiting public by Matt Weston, the double gold medal-winning skeleton competitor.

Team GB's total haul of five medals was also achieved in 2014 and 2018, but their three golds in 2026 were more than at any other winter Games.

They took home two golds in the middle weekend of the Olympics: the first for Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale in the mixed team snowboarding, and the second for Matt Weston and Tabby Stoecker in the mixed team skeleton.

Weston won his second gold medal of the Games alongside Stoecker, after picking up his first in the men's singles skeleton on 13 February.

Stoecker said: "This welcome has been completely overwhelming. I don't think it's quite hit me yet how much the nation had got behind us. And that's just incredible, especially for our sport, which is quite niche, so we don't always get that much attention."

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Nightingale was wearing his gold medal as he walked into the arrivals hall.

He told Sky News: "It feels amazing around my neck. It's just a crazy thing to think that I'm a gold medallist now, it's been a long journey.

"Being there, you don't realise how big it's actually become in the UK."

"It's an amazing feeling to see how people are supporting us, it being a winter games just means even more for us, for all the support."

When asked how he was going to unwind, Grant Hardie, curling silver medallist, said: "You put so much into so many hours of training, and it's just going to be nice to have a complete switch off".

He added that he would "not think about curling for a few months at least, and [would] try to get on the golf course."

Halfpipe skiing bronze medallist, Zoe Atkin, described the experience as "surreal," saying her medal was "really heavy, but it feels really good".

Atkin, whose sister also won bronze in the 2018 Winter Olympics, joked that "when I get home, we're going to weigh them".

She said seeing her sister win in 2018 was a "huge inspiration" and "to be able to back her up eight years later with my own bronze is just so special".

The appeals were part of the so-called "Hong Kong 47" case, in which many leading pro-democracy activists and politicians were arrested in early 2021 and charged with conspiracy to commit subversion.

Hong Kong's government said the court's decision showed that anyone endangering national security would be punished in accordance with the law.

The case centred on an unofficial primary election organised by pro-democracy campaigners in mid-2020 to select the strongest candidates for a council election.

The prosecution alleged they were conspiring to win a majority in order to paralyse the government by blocking the city's annual budget, in a bid to force Hong Kong's leader to resign.

The mass prosecution of 47 activists crushed much of the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement, which saw massive anti-government protests in 2019.

Forty-five of the defendants were sentenced to between four and 10 years in 2024, drawing criticism from foreign governments and rights groups.

Eleven activists who appealed their convictions lost their bids.

They included former politicians Leung Kwok-hung, Lam Cheuk-ting, Raymond Chan and Helena Wong.

All appeals over their sentences, brought by 10 of them and another activist, were also dismissed by the Court of Appeal.

Lawrence Lau, a pro-democracy former district councillor, was one of two activists acquitted in the case.

Judges upheld his acquittal following an appeal from the prosecution.

After hearing the result, the defendants appeared calm and waved to their families and supporters.

Some people had waited outside since Saturday to secure a seat in the courtroom.

After the ruling, Chan Po-ying, the wife of activist Leung Kwok-hung, said: "What crimes have they committed?"

So far, 18 of the 45 convicted democrats have been released after serving their jail terms, including former district councillors Jimmy Sham and Lester Shum.

Officials in Hong Kong and Beijing insist that they received a fair trial, and say the national security law in 2020 helped restore order following the mass pro-democracy protests.

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But a spokesperson for Amnesty International Hong Kong Overseas said the court "missed a critical opportunity to correct this mass injustice", adding that "peaceful opposition to a government is not a crime".

The Australian government's foreign minister, Penny Wong, also expressed concern that its citizen, Gordon Ng, had lost the appeal over his conviction.

There's talk of an act of parliament to stop him ever becoming king, but it's not that simple.

King Charles is the monarch of the United Kingdom, but he's also the king of 14 other countries.

Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese has told Sir Keir Starmer that he would support any effort to remove Andrew from the line of succession.

So how does it work? Sky News took a look at what it would involve.

Why are there calls for Andrew to be removed from the line?

The arrest of the former prince on suspicion of misconduct in public office has reignited calls for him to be formally removed from the royal line of succession.

He was released from the Aylsham police station after 11 hours of questioning.

Andrew has always strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

The possibility of him becoming king is remote - he's currently eighth in line to the throne, behind Prince William and his three children, and Prince Harry and his two children.

But many are of the view that it's important to remove him all the same for symbolic reasons.

Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray told Sky News: "The government is considering any further steps that might be required, and we're not ruling anything out.

"But at this stage, it would be inappropriate for us to go any further because there is a live police investigation under way."

A YouGov poll showed that 82% of the British public would support removing him from the line of succession.

Can the UK remove him? Yes but...

An act of parliament - that's the one in Westminster - is required to alter the line of succession.

Sir Keir's government has said it will consider introducing such legislation once police finish their investigation.

But any changes to the line of succession would also require the agreement of other countries, which also maintain King Charles as head of state.

They are: Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

Barbados would have also been on this list but has been a republic since 2021.

8579 LLC, a pornography provider with a clutch of popular sites, was fined a record £1.35m for not having age checks in place, plus £50,000 for failing to respond to an information request.

Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator that issued the fines, said if the firm does not immediately implement highly effective age assurance, it will also face a daily penalty of £1,000.

It will also be fined £250 a day until it responds to the regulator's requests for information, including a full list of all of its sites. After 60 days, if it still has not responded, the fines will be capped.

From July, all pornography providers with UK audiences had to start properly checking the ages of their users.

A tick-box asking users if they were over 18 was no longer considered a proper age check, and major providers introduced technology to properly verify their users' ages.

Ofcom says it was tracking those that did not, and investigations were soon launched into some of the biggest non-compliant sites.

8579 LLC was one of the companies being investigated.

Up until at least 19 November 2025, 8579 LLC failed to implement highly effective age assurance on three of its major sites, according to the regulator, with one other site continuing to break age verification rules.

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George Lusty, director of enforcement at Ofcom, said: "We've been clear that adult sites must deploy robust age checks to protect children in the UK from seeing porn.

"Those that fail to do this - or ignore legally binding requests from us - should expect to face fines."

Ofcom's investigation into 8579 LLC initially included two more sites run by the company, but they were transferred to another business registered in the Seychelles before Ofcom could announce its preliminary findings.

Research by Sky News suggests that at least two more sites listed as part of Monday's investigation have also already been transferred to the other company.

Sky News has attempted to contact 8579 LLC for comment through its websites.

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