Former SNP chief executive pleaded guilty to buying thousands of pounds worth of personal items with party funds

The disgraced political figure spent more than £2,000 on designer salt and pepper shakers

Mackenzie Swift entered the River Don on Saturday evening

Mark Nowak is calling on the government to treat knife crime as a national emergency

Chilling footage shows Nowak lying on the floor as he is handcuffed by officers

London commuters may need to change their travel plans ahead of the action planned for Tuesday and Thursday

An estimated 4.2 million children will still be in poverty by 2029, official analyis shows

Sir Keir Starmer said ‘it is right’ that the police watchdog is investigating officers’ response to the stabbing.

At a community centre in south London, users tell Nicole Wootton-Cane how using food banks and tackling food waste at the same time has become ‘normal’

Drivers’ union Aslef has accepted the conditions set by TfL while the RMT still plans to walk out

Peter Mandelson’s damning opinion of No 10 revealed in messages, with the disgraced politician saying the PM ‘lacks verve’

Soaring demand coupled with lower donations is creating a ‘perfect storm’ for food banks, leading charity Felix said

A new survey has found that public confidence has plummeted in the value of a university education

Former PM David Cameron says he doesn’t believe Boris Johnson thought Britain would vote to Leave the EU in new BBC documentary on Brexit

Leading polling expert Sir John Curtice said Nigel Farage’s party was eating the Conservatives ‘for breakfast, lunch and dinner’

Khan is set to call for a ban on social media for under-16s during a speech on Tuesday

Lord Livermore said it was his ‘personal view’ that the UK would rejoin the bloc

Political editor David Maddox discusses being named in exchanges involving Peter Mandelson and how The Independent’s stories have embarrassed the government

New files related to Lord Mandelson’s appointment were released by the Government on Monday

French president says new tanker was intercepted by France with support of several partners

Michael Stewart and Anthony Stewart have been found guilty 42 years after Anthony Littler died as he walked home in East Finchley

A five-year-old boy was taken to Bristol Children’s Hospital

The court heard that Brown then ran after his neighbour with the weapon and chased him into a garden

Ministers were braced for embarrassing revelations ahead of the publication of the files on Monday afternoon

The average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts reached 159.7p last week

Defence secretary John Healey made an announcement in the House of Commons

The family of a 16-year-old girl who tragically died after getting into difficulty in a Warwickshire river during last week's heatwave has expressed gratitude to the local community for their overwhelming support.

Vickrum Digwa told his victim ‘I am a bad man’ moments before stabbing him

The record was influenced by the ‘exceptionally early’ heatwave last week

Green leader Zack Polanski has called the decision ‘really grim’

A total of 24 people were arrested after more than 500 officers were deployed across the event on Sunday

Court of Arbitration in the Hague rules against Rwanda’s claim it was owed money after Labour scrapped the scheme

Watch live as the government delivers a statement following the latest release of documents relating to the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador.

Our community debated whether AI-generated ‘nostalgia slop’ – sepia-toned, idealised clips of Britain circulating on social media – reflects real memories of the past, or a romanticised version of what life in the UK was actually like

In 2025 there were 544 Asian hornet sightings with 161 nests confirmed – more than double the number reported the previous year

Exclusive: Permits were also given for hunting trophies of critically endangered black rhinos and cheetahs, Africa's most endangered big cat

Chief secretary Darren Jones is the latest cabinet minister to attract leadership speculation

The delivery driver was caught on CCTV taking Ozempic out of different pigeon holes

Shanice Brookes, 30, was shot near the One Four One bar in Sheffield on bank holiday Monday

The Royal Life Saving Society urged people to ‘stop and think’ before entering water during the heatwave

Some passengers are taking airport drinking ‘too far’, leading to an uptick in incidents

The sale includes the car's original book pack and full MOT certificates

Labour’s support amongst union members has plummeted by 20 points since the general election

Political editor David Maddox looks at the likely impact of the release of the second tranche of Mandelson documents on Keir Starmer and Labour

Paul Gibson admitted he ‘lost his composure’ in response to the outburst from the dock

The teenager’s disappearance was reported at 6.30pm on Sunday at the River Wharfe, near Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales