Sky News Anchor Suspended for Breaching Virus Restrictions

Kay Burley poses for photographers upon her arrival at the British Academy Television Nominees Party in London, on Apr. 22, 2015. Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

LONDON—British broadcaster Sky News has taken one of its leading news anchors off the air for six months after she threw a birthday party that violated coronavirus restrictions.

The channel said Thursday that Kay Burley had agreed to be off air for six months “as a result of an internal review.” Sky News said it “takes breaches like this very seriously indeed.”