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The Independent
Police staff vote to strike over home working rules
Civilian staff at the Metropolitan Police have voted for the first time to strike, after being told they may not work from home so often.
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December 12, 2024
The Independent
Courts reform expected as murder trial backlog soars
Ministers are poised to pave the way for major criminal justice reform after new figures seen by The Independent revealed the dire state of the courts system.
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December 12, 2024
The Independent
MPs rage at assisted dying bill committee 'stitch-up'
The committee that will scrutinise the assisted dying bill will have a majority of supportive MPs, including two government ministers, in a move that has been branded “a stitch-up” by campaigners.
4 min |
December 12, 2024
The Independent
Government could axe 10,000 civil service jobs
Ministers will not set an arbitrary cap on the number of civil servants amid reports more than 10,000 jobs could be lost as the result of a spending squeeze.
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December 12, 2024
The Independent
Rayner: Councils must yield green belt to build housing
Angela Rayner has announced that councils will be forced to surrender large parts of the green belt to achieve immediate new housing targets.
2 min |
December 12, 2024
The Independent
Tractor protest at Whitehall sees farmers rage at Starmer
Farmers remain in a deadlock with the government over tax after a day of protests in which hundreds of tractors were driven through Westminster.
4 min |
December 12, 2024
The Independent
Tortured and beaten for years before being killed
Horrifying abuse of Sara Sharif, 10, at hands of parents
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December 12, 2024
The Independent
Father and stepmother found guilty of murder after horrific abuse of schoolgirl
Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother were found guilty yesterday of her murder after inflicting a campaign of abuse that saw the schoolgirl being hooded, restrained and beaten during her short life.
5 min |
December 12, 2024
The Independent
Post Office and Fujitsu staff investigated for perjury and perverting course of justice
Detectives are investigating dozens of staff at Fujitsu and the Post Office for crimes including perjury and perverting the course of justice over the wrongful prosecutions of subpostmasters.
3 min |
December 12, 2024
The Independent
Relax Kemi, history's on your side in the battle with Farage
Conservative MPs are worried. They weren’t worried when Andrea Jenkyns, formerly one of their number, defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Unlike Starmer, Farage's charisma lights up the room
The extraordinary poll showing Reform UK has overtaken the Labour Party in popularity can be attributed to many factors.
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Okolie follows in footsteps of giants with weight switch
Lawrence Okolie is a big lad, and he has always been a big lad.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Year of living dangerously: our season awards for 2024
Kieran Jackson on best driver, biggest shock and much more
4 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Injury-plagued City cannot afford to slip up in Turin
Manchester City's manager had his head in his hands.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Liverpool's imperfect win maintains perfect campaign
The mathematics of a complicated competition may remain unclear but one element is apparent.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Thames Water's operation is simply not good enough
Deeply in debt and proposing huge price hikes, the troubled company is holding customers to ransom
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Murdoch loses court case in real-life 'Succession' battle
Rupert Murdoch's attempt to give his eldest son control of his family media empire has been blocked by a US court after a lengthy legal battle with three of his other children.
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Netanyahu takes witness stand in corruption trial
Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s first sitting prime minister to testify as a criminal defendant – having taken the witness stand in his lengthy corruption trial.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
US shooting suspect shouts as he's dragged into court
Mangione: 'It's an insult to the intelligence of Americans'
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct by staff
The couple who run the LGBT+ website PinkNews have been accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct by staff members.
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Dutiful Dylan biopic lacks the electricity of its subject
Timothée Chalamet tries his hardest in the competent but uninspired 'A Complete Unknown'
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Birmingham Council agrees huge historic equal pay deal
Council facing £760m bill reaches settlement with unions
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
The billionaire appointed as Reform UK's new treasurer
Property tycoon and celebrity husband Nick Candy says he'll raise record funds for the right-wing outfit
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Former Tory who organised Nazi stag do joins Reform
A former Tory MP who organised an infamous Nazi-themed stag party has joined Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Aidan Burley was sacked as a ministerial aide after the incident came to light.
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Does Reeves's war on waste signal a return to austerity?
As a sort of softening-up exercise in advance of next year's comprehensive, first principles \"zero-based\" spending review, the chancellor of the Exchequer is taking her self-styled iron fist to government waste.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Secret underground tunnels found under Assad mansion
Secret escape tunnels used by the Assad family have been discovered after their tyrannical regime was overthrown by Syrian rebel forces over the weekend.
2 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Assad's naval fleet smashed by barrage of Israeli missiles
Israel has carried out a wave of airstrikes across Syria, claiming to have destroyed the country’s naval fleet and deployed troops beyond a demilitarised buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
3 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
'We still don't know why my brother was sent to prison'
Bel Trew reports on the Syrian people's desperate search for family members disappeared under a despot's brutal regime
6 min |
December 11, 2024
The Independent
Tackling the darker side of England's finest moment
It should have been a night of celebration. As they gathered together at the Dorchester Hotel, Sir Clive Woodward's heroes of 2003 were meant to commemorate a World Cup triumph that still represents the acme of English men’s rugby. But, as Matt Dawson explains, there was a strange atmosphere in the room. As he caught up with his colleagues two decades on from reaching the mountaintop, what became clear was just how many were struggling on the other side.
5 min |
December 10, 2024
The Independent
New generation gather pace amid England inconsistency
Are England good? Consistently inconsistent across the whole of 2024, it is anyone's guess where England's true mean lies. But in a year where they have waved goodbye to Stuart Broad, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow and James Anderson, a new generation has officially emerged.
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