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Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:57:49 GMT
February 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions amid DWP changes
All the essential cost of living information you need

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:56:00 GMT
Man charged with murder of his one-month-old son
Tony Bartlett will stand accused of murdering newborn Atticus in 2022

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:53:47 GMT
UK politics live: Minister hits back at Trump plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza as Starmer to face PMQs
Environment Secretary Steve Reed re-stated the importance of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine following Trump’s plans to “take over” Gaza as the prime minister prepares for PMQs

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:35:44 GMT
UK shoots down Trump’s plan to take control of Gaza and backs return of Palestinians
In a rebuke to the US president, a member of Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet backed a two-state solution to the conflict and said Israel should exist alongside ‘a free and viable Palestinian state’

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:22:25 GMT
Exasperated Swinney forced to deny he plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland
Independent report says domestic cats kill 27 million birds in the UK each year

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:15:49 GMT
Starmer’s Chagos deal ‘a betrayal of the British people’, Priti Patel warns
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is a “betrayal of the British people”, Priti Patel has claimed.

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:46:57 GMT
Boy, 15, charged with Sheffield school murder of teenager Harvey Willgoose
Harvey Willgoose’s family said they were “utterly heartbroken” after the loss of their “beautiful boy”

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:46:17 GMT
Nottingham knife killer not forced to take long-lasting antipsychotics due to fear of needles, damning report reveals
Shocking report finds another patient being treated by the same trust was arrested for stabbing five people in one weekend just months before Calocane’s attacks

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:09:10 GMT
Triple killer Valdo Calocane may have been spared prison due to incomplete evidence, families say
Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order after killing Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:05:00 GMT
Domestic abuser caught after police dog chase through woodland river
Police bodycam has captured the moment a violent domestic abuser was caught following a foot pursuit by officers and a police dog through woodland and rivers near Tunbridge Wells.

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:09:59 GMT
Trump still considering Chagos Islands veto as Starmer tries to close deal
With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The Independent the US president has not given it his blessing

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:20:13 GMT
Kate Middleton appears on a children's school trip to National Portrait Gallery
The Princess of Wales launched the Bobeam Tree Trail at the National Portrait Gallery

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:39:02 GMT
Starmer wants ‘ambitious’ Brexit reset deal to be agreed in three months
European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds announced the timetable ahead of negotiations opening today

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:32:42 GMT
Lucy Letby’s lawyers urge review of case after medical experts claim babies were not murdered
A panel of neonatal experts has claimed the infants died of natural causes and poor medical care as killer nurse applies to overturn her 2023 conviction

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:19:25 GMT
Heartbroken family of boy, 15, killed in school stabbing say 'life is never going to be the same’
Harvey Willgoose’s sister urged: ‘Hug your loved ones a little tighter tonight because I wish I could’

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:49:44 GMT
What is the 'new medical evidence' against Lucy Letby's conviction - and can she re-appeal?
An expert panel claims it has found 'no murders' in Lucy Letby case

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:19:40 GMT
UK weather: Cold snap threatens snow and ice as temperatures plunge to -2C
The Met Office predicts temperatures will descend into the minuses thanks to a cold easterly wind from Scandinavia

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:17:55 GMT
Top Labour backer turns on party over Reeves’ ‘crippling’ Budget
Labour donor Sacha Lord has threatened to quit the party over the chancellor’s tax-hiking autumn statement unless there are urgent changes

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:55:15 GMT
Starmer backs Denmark against Donald Trump's ‘dangerous’ bid to take control of Greenland
Labour prime minister warned failing to stand up to Trump would ‘embolden the likes of Vladimir Putin who want to see the West divided’

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:31:04 GMT
Trump tariff row sees Brits demand closer ties with EU, new poll reveals
As the UK opens up its Brexit reset talks with the EU, a major new poll shows a growing appetite to have much closer ties with Europe in preference to the US

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:26:59 GMT
Experts say 'new medical evidence' will give Lucy Letby victims' families 'comfort‘
A panel of experts who claim they have “new medical evidence” in the cases of convicted child killer Lucy Letby say that their work is not meant to “cause more distress” to the families of her victims.

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:29:46 GMT
Two Britons win National Lottery Set for Life prize - but are yet to claim jackpot
The prize entitles the winner to £10,000 a month for 30 years

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:44:12 GMT
Thomas Kingston's parent break down in tears as they speak for first time since he took his own life
Thomas Kingston had been prescribed SSRIs by the Royal Mews Surgery, a practice at Buckingham Palace used by royal household staff.

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:32:50 GMT
British teenager killed by Russian drone ‘minutes into first mission’ in Ukraine
James Wilton, aged 18, was cremated in Ukraine after his death last July

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:20:00 GMT
Ex-Tory MP joins Ukraine’s foreign legion to aid fight against Putin
Exclusive: Former deputy chair of the Conservative Party Jack Lopresti has given his first interview to The Independent after volunteering to serve in the Ukrainian military

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:54:39 GMT
Hardest Geezer announces brutal new challenge after running the length of Africa
Russ Cook expects the 300,000ft elevation – the equivalent of 10 Mount Everests – to be the most challenging part of his journey

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