Scotland News Editor for Sky News, formerly ITV News. Londoner based in Scotland. Always curious, often lost. [email protected]
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined June 2011
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Fran Infante retweeted
The Supreme Court, the highest civil court in the country, has ruled that "woman" in UK law refers to biological sex.
Sky's @ConnorGillies explains ⬇️
Read more: trib.al/Ert2Fin
Fran Infante retweeted
🔺Sky News learns 10 senior officers remain on Operation Branchform, the SNP finance probe, with Crown Office prosecution costs sitting at £200k+ and police spending £2.1m.
🔎Sir John Curtice warns the 4 year long investigation threatens the SNP’s chances at 2026 election. 👇🏽
Police investigation 'could weaken SNP's election chances', top pollster warns
🔗Read more trib.al/krrtB0c
Fran Infante retweeted
🔎The town bracing for the UK’s biggest council tax rise.
🔺Falkirk hiking bills by 15.6%.
🏠@SkyNews goes door to door on Wilson Rd as folk feel they are paying more & getting less.
🚨 We meet the councillor calling police after beheading taunts.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/the-town-…
Fran Infante retweeted
🔺EXCL: Boss of Labour’s GB Energy admits to @SkyNews that a pledge of 1000 jobs for Aberdeen HQ could take 20 years.
📺In his first TV interview, Juergen Maier also repeatedly refuses to tell me when voters can expect £300 off their energy bills.
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Fran Infante retweeted
🔺Quandary for Starmer who will now decide whether to grant a licence to drill in UK's largest untapped oilfield.
🏴Scottish court rules previous permissions for Rosebank & Jackdaw were unlawful
❌PM is against new drilling but now has £bn oil giants breathing down his neck
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Fran Infante retweeted
Members of a paedophile gang that ran a "monstrous" child sex abuse ring in a Glasgow drugs den have each been sentenced to an order for lifelong restriction.
Sky's @connorgillies reports.
WARNING: This video contains graphic content and describes child abuse
Fran Infante retweeted
"It feels like lockdown of 2020"
Sky's @ConnorGillies has the latest from Glasgow where Storm Eowyn has left shops closed and the roads littered with debris
Live updates ➡️ trib.al/19bMNyT
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Fran Infante retweeted
NEW: Police reveal they had previous “contact” with dad and 6 year old daughter before they were found dead in West Lothian house.
Senior officer says that is now being “reviewed”.
Sky News understands they are 36 year old Mark Gordon and 6 year old Hope Gordon.
Fran Infante retweeted
BREAK: 6 year old girl and 36-year-old man found dead in house in West Calder. Major police probe underway. @SkyNews
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🔺EXCL: Family of Nairn doorstep murder victim Alastair Wilson demand Chief Constable resigns for failing to “get a grasp” on 20 yr probe.
🗣️Son reveals ‘biggest struggle’ was people falsely accusing his mum of murder
⤵️First broadcast interview since police spat began @SkyNews
Fran Infante retweeted
🔺The story of how a list of grudges triggered a murderous shooting & stabbing rampage on the Isle of Skye.
🔘10 kids left without their dads after violence at the hands of an “evil” man who bought a new gun weeks before.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/amp/finla…
⤵️@SkyNews report.
Fran Infante retweeted
🔺NEW: Murder detective rejects claims Police Scotland Chief Constable is “callous” in her treatment of the family of banker Alastair Wilson who was shot dead on his doorstep 20 years ago today.
🔗news.sky.com/story/alistair-…
🗣️Det Ch Supt Suzanne Chow @SkyNews interview… ⤵️
Fran Infante retweeted
🔺The Highland murder dressed up as suicide.
🔘Michael Joyce guilty of battering his lodger Michael White to death.
🔘The victim’s remains were surrounded by pictures of his dead wife in a bid to make it look like suicide.
⤵️White’s son Joshua tells @SkyNews he has nightmares.
Michael Joyce, 33, has been found guilty of the murder of Michael White in Kyle of Lochalsh.
Mr White, 61, was found dead within a property at Plock Road in the village on Sunday, 23 April, 2023.
Read more: orlo.uk/S5i76
ALT Custody photo of Michael Joyce
Fran Infante retweeted
Sky News witnesses fireworks being lobbed at riot police in Gilmerton, Edinburgh this evening as Bonfire Night tensions rise. @SkyNews
Fran Infante retweeted
Nicola Sturgeon, a serving politician, pockets £25,000 plus £2803 hotel room for her election night appearance on ITV.
SNP previously denied hypocrisy after it criticised Ruth Davidson for similar job years ago.
Fran Infante retweeted
🔎Eyewitness: “Dying is easier than this life”.
📍Inside the war on drugs in Glasgow as a ‘safer’ consumption room prepares to open.
▶️The brutal life on the streets for society’s most vulnerable people.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/life-insi…
⚠️Warning: images of drug taking.
@SkyNews
Fran Infante retweeted
💥EXCLUSIVE: Police Scotland considered recording notorious double rapist Isla Bryson as a female on the sex offenders register, according to leaked document obtained by @SkyNews.
✍️ Full story… news.sky.com/story/police-sc…
Fran Infante retweeted
BREAKING: Dozens of criminals who were freed early from Scottish prisons under an emergency release system have reoffended and been returned to jail, it has emerged.
news.sky.com/story/dozens-of…
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Scottish prosecutors have received a fresh report from police probing the SNP’s funding and finances.
Operation Branchform officers asked Crown Office for “advice & guidance” in August which is around the time the Chief Constable told @SkyNews Nicola Sturgeon remains a suspect.