The Independent - May 18, 2023
The Independent - May 18, 2023
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May 18, 2023
Harry And Meghan In 'Near Catastrophic Two-Hour Car Chase' Involving Paparazzi
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex say they were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” in New York involving “highly aggressive” paparazzi that lasted over two hours.
3 mins
Sunak Seeks Delay To Brexit Rules To Bolster Car Industry
Rishi Sunak’s government is understood to be lobbying the EU to delay a change in manufacturing rules in the Brexit trade deal after Vauxhall’s parent company warned it could shut its UK factories.
4 mins
PM ducks Tory manifesto pledge to slash migration
Rishi Sunak has declined to recommit to a Tory manifesto pledge to bring down legal immigration levels. The prime minister said he does want to see figures fall but would not reaffirm the pledge the Conservatives ran on when Boris Johnson led them to a large majority.
2 mins
Johnson Has Set Sunak A Triple By-Election Trap
Rishi Sunak faces three by-elections if MPs nominated for peerages by Boris Johnson leave the House of Commons.
3 mins
World 'Likely' To Breach 1.5C Climate Limit By 2028
Global temperatures are likely to surpass the key limit of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, scientists have warned.
3 mins
'I don't need Hollywood'
The actor Johnny Depp dismisses the boycott by Tinseltown as he makes a comeback in Cannes with 'Jeanne du Barry'
2 mins
Depp's Defiant Comeback
A star turn as Louis XV in 'Jeanne du Barry' marks the actor's first lead role since his acrimonious divorce from Amber Heard, finds an impressed Geoffrey Macnab at Cannes
3 mins
Water firms pledge £10bn to reduce sewage overflows
The biggest modernisation of sewers since the Victorian era” is planned by the water industry. Water UK said plans for the largest ever investment in sewage networks will cut overflows by up to 140,000 each year by 2030, compared to the level in 2020.
2 mins
Number Of Children Vaping Rises 50 Per Cent In A Year
The number of children trying vaping has risen by 50 per cent, according to a new study. Data shows an increase in experimental vaping among 11 to 17-year-olds, from 7.7 per cent last year to 11.6 per cent this year.
4 mins
White House has final say on delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, says UK
Any shipments of the desirable aircraft will need US approval
4 mins
The US is being timid by not giving Ukraine F-16s
The announcement that Britain and the Netherlands are forming an international coalition” to get Ukraine F-16 fighter jets is a significant step in the prolonged quest by Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to acquire the aircraft.
2 mins
China Calls Truss's Taiwan Visit 'A Dangerous Stunt'
Britain’s former prime minister Liz Truss has been criticised by Beijing as she used a speech in Taiwan yesterday to warn of the threat China poses to both the island and to the West.
2 mins
Obama goes back to work
The former US president set out to explore what working’ really looks like, as the resulting documentary’s director tells Clémence Michallon what went on behind the scenes
5 mins
Johnson's Brexit disaster has broken up the car industry
\"Let's just be clear. We are about to witness, in the coming few months and years, the slow death of the British volume car industry. Another victim of Brexit, the malign gift from Boris Johnson to the British people that just keeps on giving. Another British industrial success story sacrificed on the altar of that elusive god, \"Sovereignty\".
4 mins
FAST AND FURIOUS
‘Fast X’ and its film franchise treat cars with lusty reverence but our climate is in crisis: Hollywood must stop glorifying this foremost method of pollution, insists Louis Chilton
3 mins
Hunt: Working From Home Leads To A Loss Of Creativity
Working from the office should be the default” for employees, chancellor Jeremy Hunt told business leaders yesterday as he claimed that logging on from home could stifle creativity. He told the British Chambers of Commerce conference he believes the shift to homeworking during the Covid-19 pandemic is being reversed by firms.
2 mins
City brush aside existing champions on way to final
City beat Madrid 5-1 on aggregate
4 mins
Flooding forces F1 to cancel Imola Grand Prix in Italy
The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix this weekend has been cancelled due to adverse weather in Italy, Formula One confirmed yesterday.
3 mins
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