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Labour must rethink tax to stop billionaires fleeing UK
A few years ago, we had a celebratory family lunch for A-level results. We splashed out and went to Nobu in London’s Park Lane.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Hundreds feared dead and dozens missing as massive earthquake fh hits eee
More than 140 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar with the tremors powerful enough to collapse buildings hundreds of miles away in Bangkok.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Weetabix wins over the US
A huge surge in sales is reported after a basketball team credits their victory to breakfasting on the wheaty biscuits
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Whitehall’s spending wars will see winners and losers
The protected’ departments of health and defence will get a larger share, writes Andrew Grice, while others will struggle
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
FA Cup presents a historic opportunity for seven clubs
Weekend’s quarter-finals are a once-in-a-generation event
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
WH Smith off high street as all shops sold j in 76m deal
WH Smith will disappear from the high street after a deal to sell its business to investment firm Modella Capital, owner of the arts and crafts retailer Hobbycraft, for 76m.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Prevent boss quits after Southport killer failures
The head of the government’s counterterror programme Prevent has reportedly stepped down after it was revealed that the Southport killer’s case was closed before the attack.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Declassified documents claim CIA used psychics to find Ark of the Covenant
Declassified CIA documents claim that the mystical Ark of the Covenant was located by a psychic decades ago in the Middle East as part of one of the intelligence agency’s experimental, secret projects in the 1980s.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
WINGS OF DESIRE i i--s
An enraptured Sean O’Grady takes a spin in the rarefied air of Bentley Bespoke and finds very little to complain about
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
What’s the story behind the row about sentencing?
The justice secretary and lord chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, has failed in her attempt to persuade the independent Sentencing Council to review its latest sentencing guidelines.
2 min |
March 29, 2025
The Independent
Afghan woman and trans friend arrested by Taliban
Concerns are growing for Maryam Ravish and Maeve Alcina Pieescu, who were detained before a flight to Iran last week
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Farewell WH Smith, dowdy remnant of high streets past
WH Smith has a new owner the high street part, that is anda new name. The dowdy and unloved chain, derided on X for its grotty stores and unlovely mix of product, has been snapped up by Hobbycraft’s owner Modella for 76m in cash.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
How the dream job’ turned into a good enough’ career
Five years on from the pandemic, our attitudes toward work have shifted and people are less keen to be defined by what they do. Katie Rosseinsky looks at shifting views on ambition
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Ukraine’s choice? Become a US colony or a Russian one
Latest Trump offer to trade Ukraine’s minerals for back pay is a mafia shakedown, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
PM’s communications chief quits after just nine months
Sir Keir Starmer’s communications chief has stepped down from his role after a turbulent nine months in Downing Street and repeated complaints about the party’s media strategy.
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
‘We can do big, big things’
Centre-half Jan Paul van Hecke tells Miguel Delaney about Brighton’s FA Cup ambitions and taking revenge on Forest
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Vance castigates Denmark during Greenland stopover
The US vice-president JD Vance yesterday told American service members that the Danish government has not adequately protected Greenland and insisted the US must do more” to counter what he claimed was Russian and Chinese encroachment” on the strategically important Arctic island, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex.
2 min |
March 29, 2025
The Independent
Bournemouth beach killer jailed for 39 years minimum
Branded an extremely dangerous’ social misfit, Nasen Saadi murdered Amie Gray and seriously wounded Leanne Miles
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March 29, 2025
The Independent
Reeves mulls fresh tax raid on savers to balance books
Rachel Reeves is looking at imposing a fresh tax raid on savers by giving HMRC new powers to dock workers’ pay and acquire data about customers from banks.
3 min |
March 29, 2025
The Independent
The chancellor’s approval ratings plunge, poll shows
Rachel Reeves’s spring statement is almost as unpopular as the disastrous mini-Budget that collapsed Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, a new poll suggests.
3 min |
March 29, 2025
The Independent
"This is the elite of the elite, I can't wait to get stuck in'
Lions recognition as a player escaped Richard Wigglesworth, which is why being part of the coaching team in Australia this summer will be extra special, he tells Harry Latham-Coyle
4 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
Albanese calls Australia general election for May
Australians will go to the polls in May for general elections with high costs of living and a shortage of housing likely weighing against the government as prime minister Anthony Albanese s centre-left Labour Party seeks a second three-year term.
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March 28, 2025
The Independent
Tsunoda lands dream seat the sport's poisoned chalice
When Yuki Tsunoda was asked at the last race in China whether he would be comfortable stepping up to Red Bull in front of his adoring Japanese fans next week as outlandish a proposition it seemed at the time he did not flinch.
4 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
Thousands of jobs at risk if British Steel furnaces close
Chinese parent company rejects government green subsidy
4 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
Chelsea dismantle City to secure semi-final place
Can we play you every week? At the culmination of four meetings in 12 days between Chelsea and Manchester City, perhaps even the answer from Sonia Bompastor’s side is a “no”.
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March 28, 2025
The Independent
British and French military chiefs to visit Kyiv, says PM
Britain and France are preparing to send a joint military delegation to Ukraine in an effort to determine how any future ceasefire deal can be supported on the ground, Sir Keir Starmer said after a summit in Paris yesterday.
3 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
Retaliating to Trump's tariff would lead us up a dead end
The government has only a few days to help prevent some serious damage to the British car industry. They will be well aware that the UK exports some 6bn worth of vehicles to the US, and the trade is vulnerable to the 25 per cent tariffs planned and indeed publicly signed into force – by Donald Trump, due to come into effect on 2 April.
3 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
How is Reeves really going to balance Labour's books?
One promise that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has kept is that there would be no tax changes in her spring statement, with all the action centred on those cuts in public services.
4 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
Five injured in knife attack in Amsterdam's city centre
An Amsterdam shop worker has described seeing people injured on the ground in the terrifying moments after a stabbing spree in the heart of the city’s tourist district.
3 min |
March 28, 2025
The Independent
Just Stop Oil to cease direct action after changes in law
Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil announced it will cease disruptive action, following a final protest in Parliament Square on 26 April.
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