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The Independent
Campaign to return bible to Salisbury receives £10k gift
A campaign to return a 13th-century copy of the Bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the culture secretary as an example of our country at its best” as it received a 10,000 donation.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
NHS pill to help thousands.avoid death from smoking
A daily pill designed to help people give up smoking will soon be rolled out on the NHS as experts hope it could prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths a year.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Hospital league tables to return in NHS reforms
Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, the health secretary will say today.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Gray rejects offer of envoy job in fresh blow to Starmer
Sue Gray has turned down Sir Keir Starmer's offer to become the prime minister's envoy for the nations and regions, No 10 said, in yet another blow to the prime minister as questions continue about his Downing Street operation.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Truss was bracing for 'Putin to launch nuclear weapons'
Vladimir Putin was so close to using nuclear weapons in October 2022 that Liz Truss spent the dying days of her premiership preparing for the potential fallout, an updated version of her biography has claimed.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Tories take narrow poll lead after Badenoch's first week
The Conservatives have taken a two-point poll lead over Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party in Kemi Badenoch's first week as leader.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Starmer pledges to slash carbon emissions by 81%
Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are on a collision course over the climate crisis after the prime minister yesterday positioned himself as the international leader spearheading efforts to achieve net zero.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Why has the Archbishop of Canterbury had to resign?
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned over allegations - some of which he has accepted - that he failed to act against a prolific and sadistic paedophile, John Smyth, who had been associated with the Church of England for decades. A number of Welby’s more senior colleagues have openly called for him to stand down, while others remained silent, and the general unease has become deafening.
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
Welby quits over 'failures' in Church abuse scandal
Archbishop submits to pressure from clergy and PM
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November 13, 2024
The Independent
It's the unmade Rocky film with a twist... roll up, folks
There is no hate, no love, the gloves are big and the rounds will be short when Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight on Friday night.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
While rivals hit the buffers, Liverpool deserve their lead
Alexis Mac Allister can have a footballing eloquence. His job involves reading the game.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
United's ship steadied, now Amorim hits deeper waters
It may be the way all Manchester United managers imagine their reign ending.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Supermarket shoppers will soon find ‘every little hurts'
Is chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to hike employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) about to hit us all – and right in the supermarket baskets?
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Barclays warns tax rise will hit workers' living standards
Business leaders accuse government of betraying the nation’
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
How Gary Barlow became accidental king of memes
The singer is currently enjoying a load of nice days out’ on his new travel show. It’s the latest step in his reinvention as an inadvertent icon of hun culture’, says Katie Rosseinsky
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Brothers grim: on the dark world of Nineties boybands
As anew documentary series reveals what it was really like to ride the pop train to stardom, Jessie Thompson remembers her own youthful obsession and looks behind the curtain
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Cast iron catnip for Gen Z's aspirations of adulthood
Police had to be called after hundreds of frenzied shoppers descended on a cookware sale this weekend. Helen Coffey dons oven gloves to tackle the LeCreuSlay phenomenon
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
'Some boys wet themselves, some wanted their mothers'
Reckless exposure to atomic weapons tests left young men and later, their children suffering from debilitating illness and disability. Zoé Beaty reports on the long fight for justice
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Why India's trainee doctors are hoping for more bodies
Logistical hurdles and cultural sensitivities are affecting the donation of cadavers, so medical students are forced to train on anatomical models or simulations, reports Namita Singh
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Alarm as Cop29 first day overshadowed by Trump
The United Nations’ Cop29 climate summit kickstarted yesterday amid stark warnings about the deteriorating state of the planet and an undercurrent of anxiety over Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Trump chooses China hawk as national security adviser
President-elect Donald Trump has asked Michael Waltz, a retired army national guard officer and war veteran, to be his national security adviser.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Ukraine forces face 50,000 troops in Russia's Kursk
Ukraine is battling 50,000 troops in Russia’s border Kursk region, according to the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, while also scrambling to reinforce two besieged fronts in the east and bracing to meet an infantry assault in the south.
3 min |
November 12, 2024
The Independent
Urbi et Orban: Pope could derail support for Ukraine
Francis shows backing for Hungary’s peace deal’ between Kyiv and Moscow, while Trump’s election puts US aid at risk
3 min |
November 12, 2024
The Independent
Black prisoner died alone following sickle cell crisis
The family of a Black sickle cell patient who died “naked and alone” in prison after a medical crisis have described their pain as an inquest found that neglect was a contributing factor.
3 min |
November 12, 2024
The Independent
Met officer who fatally shot Kaba is set to be promoted
The firearms officer who fatally shot Chris Kaba is set to be promoted after he was cleared of murder, according to reports.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Gladiator II thrills - even if Mescal is no Russell Crowe
Ridley Scott’s belated sequel has it all: sharks, monkeys, and the joy of Denzel Washington’s Shakespearean enunciation. At times, this movie is pure camp, writes Clarisse Loughrey
3 min |
November 12, 2024
The Independent
Campaign to raise £90k to return rare Bible launched
A rare 13th-century Bible could return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral, more than 700 years after it was written.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Man jailed for two years 'has spent half life in prison*
A prisoner has spent more than half of his life in jail for starting a fire in the attic of an empty building aged 17 under an abolished indefinite jail term.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Ex-soldier Khalife admits to Wandsworth prison escape
The former soldier Daniel Khalife yesterday pleaded guilty to escaping from prison.
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November 12, 2024
The Independent
Badenoch: Red tape delayed payment to subpostmasters
The government let bureaucracy get in the way of redress for wronged subpostmasters, Kemi Badenoch told the inquiry into the Post Office scandal yesterday.
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