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Farage settles with NatWest over account closure row
Nigel Farage has agreed to settle his debanking dispute with NatWest nearly two years after a row over the closure of his accounts, which culminated in the resignation of the lending giant's chief executive.
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March 27, 2025
The Independent
Child watched 'concerning' TikToks in lead-up to death
A 13-year-old girl posted on TikTok that she didn't think she would live beyond the age of 14 just months before she died, a coroner has heard.
2 min |
March 27, 2025
The Independent
Olympic champion testifies against manipulative’ father
Jakob Ingebrigtsen described living with \"no free will\" during a violent childhood as he testified against his father and former coach Gjert at a trial yesterday.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Baked beans and Elton John on stilts: Tommy’ at 50
Mark Beaumont delves into the behind-the-scenes drama that plagued the making of Ken Russell’s cult classic
8 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Align calendar for good of players, Tuchel urges Fifa
England manager criticises awkward’ June schedule
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
NO PANE, NO GAIN
Ralph Jones ventures into the strange and brilliant world of super-fast squeegee-ing at the Window Cleaning World Cup
5 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Stephen Fry chuffed to the heavens’ to get knighthood
Actor and broadcaster Sir Stephen Fry said he was chuffed” to receive his knighthood and joked that if it would help his charity work then they should make me a duke”.
3 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Blatter and Platini cleared of Mila corruption charges
Ex-Fifa president Sepp Blatter and former French footballer Michel Platini were cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court yesterday.
1 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
UK diversion airports must up their infrastructure game
‘Passengers don’t deserve to end up on random Atlantic islands, Simon Calder is told after Heathrow’s stressful week
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March 26, 2025
The Independent
First non-stop UK flights to Sydney to go via North Pole
When the first non-stop passenger flights between London and Sydney begin early in 2027, the aircraft could fly over the North Pole.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Putting the art in artifice
In Delusions of Grandeur’ Grayson Perry’s fictional heir to the Wallace Collection comes to claim her throne in a show that doesn’t pander to sophistication, writes Mark Hudson
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Brooks snatches last-gasp equaliser for lucky Wales
David Brooks salvaged Wales a precious 1-1 World Cup qualifying draw against North Macedonia with all but the last kick of the match in Skopje.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Depardieu admits grabbing woman but denies groping
French actor Gerard Depardieu has told a trial he admits grabbing a woman by her hips, but denies sexual assault.
1 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Black Sea ceasefire agreed after intense talks, US says
Deal is most significant step yet towards peace settlement
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Russia’s navy is cowering from a near-invisible enemy
Ukraine is cagey about the size of its navy.
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
‘Antithesis of everything Paddington stands for’:judge scolds statue vandals
The actions of two Royal Air Force engineers who tore a newly installed Paddington Bear statue in half before stealing it were “the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for”, a judge has said.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Barton handed suspended sentence after wife assault
Former footballer Joey Barton has been given a 12-week suspended prison sentence for assaulting his wife at their family home in London.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Should unemployed young people do national service?
Whether a man who’s never had to fight anything more lethal than a price war” with Lidl is adequately qualified to make such a suggestion is arguable.
3 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Not appropriate to take free gig tickets, says Labour MP
A minister has heaped more pressure on Rachel Reeves over her decision to accept free tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter perform at the O2, saying he does not personally think it’s appropriate”.
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Can tumbling Tesla shrug off Musk’s shocking antics?
It wasn’t so long ago that Telsa was cruising along the fast lane of the global freeway. More recently, though, it seems like its controversial CEO Elon Musk is intent on driving his company into a brick wall.
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Rogen is strangely relatable in new comedy The Studio
A star-studded cast and laugh-out-loud moments make for a treat in this self-aware Hollywood parody, says Nick Hilton
3 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Threat from teenage boys in sadistic’ web groups surges
The threat from teenage boys drawn into sadistic” online networks has surged with reports up sixfold in two years, the National Crime Agency has warned.
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Harry resigns as patron of African charity he founded
The Duke of Sussex has quit as patron of a charity in Africa he set up in honour of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, after a boardroom battle within the organisation.
3 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
HUNTED BY PUTIN
As the investigative journalist who exposed Russia’s dark secrets, Christo Grozev won international plaudits. Then the Kremlin came for him, explains James Jones, whose new documentary exposes the full horror of what that feels like
6 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Trump backs Waltz over Signal chat security breach
President Donald Trump last night said Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, has no need to apologise for the security breach in which the latter inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat about upcoming military action in Yemen.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Ministers approve building of UK’s largest road tunnel
The UK’s largest-ever road tunnel is set to be built after the government gave an 8.3bn plan the go-ahead.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
King postpones Vatican trip as Pope Francis recuperates
The King and Queen’s planned visit to the Vatican next month has been postponed due to medical advice issued to the Pope, Buckingham Palace said.
1 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Ex-Reform MP harassed’ two women, inquiry finds
An independent investigation has found credible evidence of unlawful harassment of two women” by MP Rupert Lowe and his team, Reform UK has said.
2 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
Reeves cautioned over cuts before investment strategy
Rachel Reeves is gearing up for a major fight with trade unions who warn they will not stand by and allow a second age of austerity in the UK.
4 min |
March 26, 2025
The Independent
The Patti Smith classic that merged punk and poetry
With Horses’ turning 50 this year, Fiona Sturges reflects on how Smith overcame the misogyny of the 1970s rock scene and pays tribute to a masterpiece that nearly didn’t get made
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