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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:45:47 GMTTeenager charged with killing 86-year-old army veteran in Preston
Former Royal Engineer died in hospital on Saturday
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:44:47 GMTStonehenge to undergo first major repairs in 60 years to fill cracks and holes in monument
Weather has taken its toll on 4,500-year-old circle
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:43:11 GMTBoris Johnson news – live: UK threatens to suspend NI protocol in new Brexit row, as PM mourns mother’s death
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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:02:36 GMTWelfare and immigration policies driving racial disparity in housing, new study shows
Exclusive: Welfare and immigration policies are contributing to “sharply unequal access” to affordable housing among Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has highlighted.
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:57:44 GMTBrexit: UK government threatens to suspend Northern Ireland deal
EU ‘would be making a significant mistake’ to ignore our threats, Lord Frost says
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:53:44 GMTHome Office refuses to provide clarity on fate of thousands of Afghans waiting in UK asylum system
Minister Victoria Atkins says Afghan asylum seekers in Britain will ‘remain within system as usual’
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:43:32 GMTWhen is Boris Johnson giving his winter Covid update?
Prime minister said to be ‘dead set’ against further lockdowns but preparing for infections surge
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:38:22 GMTBoris Johnson’s mother Charlotte Johnson Wahl dies aged 79
The prime minister once described her as the ‘supreme authority’ in his family
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:26:22 GMTBritain can ‘live with the virus’, says Boris Johnson as Whitty warns of difficult winter
PM sets out plan for winter without lockdowns despite warnings of pressure on NHS
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:43:09 GMTPolice launch legal action against government amid row over pensions and pay freeze
Priti Patel to defend police pay freeze and crime policies in speech to conference on Tuesday
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:16:45 GMTPandemic police powers disproportionately threaten minority ethnic communities, says report
‘Policing too often threatens rather than protects public safety, particularly for people of colour’ says one of report authors
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:47:20 GMTRare 400-year-old coin could fetch £50,000 at auction
Rare and costly 60 shilling coin only minted by Charles I during Civil War exile in Oxford
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:33:09 GMTMost teachers in England do not know when the Holocaust began, study says
Researchers have warned that pupils could develop a ‘skewed’ impression of the period
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:17:00 GMTFoot fetish man avoids jail for 1,263 nuisance calls to NHS 111
Richard Cove pretended to be elderly woman on phone to indulge sexual obsession with feet
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:16:03 GMTTerry Lubbock: Father of man found dead in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool is ‘gravely ill’
Terry Lubbock says new inquest is his ‘dying wish’, after two-decade campaign for justice
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:05:02 GMT‘I have no rights in this country’: Rochdale groomer complains about treatment in UK at deportation tribunal
The tribunal is intended to determine whether the decision to deport two men convicted of grooming and trafficking young girls is lawful
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:55:23 GMTMinister tells MPs to stop raising cases of stranded Afghans
Desperate people should visit the government website, says resettlement minister in ‘disgraceful’ letter
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:40:12 GMTCovid vaccine plan for 12 to 15-year-olds to begin in schools in England
Children aged 12 and over will now be offered the vaccine
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:02:29 GMTBoris Johnson will show ‘absence of basic humanity’ if he cuts Universal Credit, Nicola Sturgeon says
Boris Johnson will display an “absence of basic humanity” if he allows the planned cut to Universal Credit to go ahead, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:00:46 GMTPrince Andrew should go to prison, says Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s father
Duke of York no longer living in world when ‘royals can just do whatever they want’
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:47:25 GMTTeenager arrested after army veteran dies in attack in Preston
Family pay tribute to 86-year-old victim whose ‘humour brought cheer to many’
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:11:35 GMTAndrew Neil resigns as chairman and lead presenter of GB News
The presenter confirmed the news in a tweet tonight
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:10:34 GMTGovernment says discrimination against black people and Travellers ‘objectively justified’ with new laws
Documents defend disproportionate impact of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:07:54 GMTBoris Johnson faces Tory discontent over tax-raising plan
Prime minister aims to force £12bn health and social care levy through Commons in single day
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:10:31 GMTBorder Force carries out ‘pushback drills’ using jet skis to divert dinghies in Channel, footage suggests
‘We saw the jet skis either side and at the rear of the boat and then collide with the vessel to actually spin it around. It looked dangerous,’ says director of Channel Rescue
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:22:30 GMTRevealed: Michael Gove’s sexist jibes, racist jokes and homophobic slurs
Exclusive: Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster made the comments in Cambridge Union debates in the late 1980s and early 1990s
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:59:11 GMTWork and pensions secretary Therese Coffey under fire for universal credit cut gaffe
Cabinet minister wrongly claims just two extra hours of work can recoup a £20-a-week loss – but refuses to admit mistake
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:41:17 GMTFootage shows lorry driver with a mobile phone to each ear on motorway
Driver spotted by police in unmarked HGV while ploughing along M4 at speed
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:50:33 GMTChildren forming ‘new generation of extremists’ in UK as terror threat shifts, Cressida Dick warns
Senior police officer warns that ‘young and vulnerable’ people being incited to commit attacks by terrorists
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:47:15 GMTPrince Andrew’s lawyers ‘will not attend pre-trial hearing into sex claims’
The Duke of York’s lawyers claim that legal papers delivered to his Windsor home were not properly served.
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:41:04 GMTBrixton shooting: Man killed and two women injured in south London
Detectives appeal for public’s help in gathering information on incident
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:40:32 GMTWiley: Rapper in court charged with assault and burglary on former kickboxer
The rapper Wiley has appeared in court accused of breaking into an east London flat and assaulting a former kickboxing world champion
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:30:00 GMTUK weather: The latest Met Office forecast
Watch the latest UK weather forecast from the Independent for today.
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:48:55 GMTUK ports caught in Brexit storm as border ‘impossible’ to construct in time
Exclusive: One port operator has had to demolish building work for new checks, while other crucial customs sites do not even have planning permission yet
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:37:30 GMTBooster Covid jabs for adults are ‘going ahead’, Boris Johnson announces
Leading scientists have criticised third doses as unnecessary for most people – arguing the UK should save lives in the developing world instead
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:29:30 GMTWork more hours, minister tells Universal Credit claimants facing £20-a-week cut
But Thérèse Coffey accused of getting her facts wrong – because people earning more lose a big chunk of the ‘tapered’ benefit
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:23:07 GMTInstitute to combat future pandemics launches in Liverpool
The Pandemic Institute launches on Monday
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:20:08 GMTVenues and businesses should still demand Covid passports if ‘necessary’, government minister says
‘It is sensible of organisations, employers to do the checks they think are necessary in order to protect public health’
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:10:32 GMTBrighton marathon organisers apologise to runners after making course ‘too long’
The event was 568m too long
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:09:29 GMTMan denies murder of Islington flower seller Tony Eastlake
James Peppiatt will remain in custody until the trial begins next July