26 m. ago 'Disabled' man caught smuggling cocaine into UK hidden inside electric wheelchair

Casimiro De Lemos Francisco posed as disabled in the drug smuggling plot

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31 m. ago Horror moment neighbour throws boiling water over gran and young boy during school run

Sickening footage shows the moment Susan Varley, 68, was walking her four-year-old grandson to school when her next door neighbour, Ina Priestly, 56, approached her and poured steaming hot water over her face.

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31 m. ago Climate 100: Join us to celebrate the world’s leading environmentalists

The Independent will host the return of its Climate 100 event in New York later this month with a keynote speech from Greg Jackson, the founder of the UK’s biggest energy provider

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65 m. ago New guidance for managers on rape could ‘create real change’ for women workers

Managers are being told they have a "key role" to play in helping those who are victims of rape, with a new guide being published to help them recognise signs someone has been sexually assaulted.

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86 m. ago Labour ‘unprepared’ for the ‘state’ of its inheritance, new Commons Leader says

Conservative shadow Commons leader Jesse Norman described Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership as being like an ‘unending episode of The Office’.

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87 m. ago Nepal protesters propose former chief justice for interim leader as death toll rises

Violent protests leave at least 31 people dead

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1 hour ago John Swinney accused of 'effectively legalising' shoplifting in Scotland

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the SNP’s record was ‘criminal’

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1 hour ago NHS urges UK households to avoid common habit 57% of people do at night

It might not seem like a major issue, but it can lead to health problems that might be tough to fix

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1 hour ago Hot Chip: 'They said we were a weird boy band version of the Spice Girls'

Hot Chip have a greatest hits album out which is a perfect time to talk to frontman Alexis Taylor about their unassuming rise to being national treasures

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2 h. ago Caroline Hirons launches innovative product that makes your skincare more effective

Skin Rocks, the beauty brand created by leading 'skinfluencer' Caroline Hirons, has just dropped a clever new product that amplifies the effects of all your other serums and creams

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2 h. ago Mounjaro 'golden dose' could be 'dangerous' and lead to overdose, pharmacist warns

Pharmaceutical companies are warning against tampering with pens and experts have outlined the major risks.

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2 h. ago Beachgoers form human chain to save boy from being swept out to sea

The boy had been swimming at a beach in Spain when he was swept away by the current

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2 h. ago Man 'raped seven young boys at gunpoint' outside school gates after pupil 'drugged them'

Seven young boys, aged between 10 and 13, have allegedly been raped at gunpoint after being 'drugged' by a 16-year-old boy in an 'unspeakable' attack in South Africa

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2 h. ago Eleanor Donaldson to undergo further medical tests ahead of trial, court told

Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife deny historical sex offences.

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3 h. ago Trouble in paradise: How Barcelona’s crisis left women’s team short of players

La Liga’s salary limit applies to the whole club and with six players leaving this summer, is the club’s golden era over?How times have changed. For the past few years Barcelona have been the team everyone wanted to join: five consecutive Champions League finals, stylish football, leaders in women’s football, a stunning city and Ballon d’Or winners for teammates. However, 10 years after becoming professional, the three-time European champions are a club in trouble.Restricted by La Liga’s financial fair play rules, the women’s team have had a calamitous summer transfer window. There have been six departures – all to the Women’s Super League – while the midfielder Alba Caño is leaving for the NWSL in January. They made only one signing, Laia Aleixandri on a free transfer from Manchester City. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Over 50,000 sign call demanding Nigel Farage releases tax returns after refusal

A petition calling for Nigel Farage to release his tax returns has been signed by more than 50,000 voters after the Reform leader branded the move 'an intrusion too far'

Economics

3 h. ago Suspect named after woman allegedly raped by man in Stockport park with imitation firearm

He is due to appear in court

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3 h. ago Stephen Colbert breaks protocol to open show with urgent address about Charlie Kirk shooting

‘Political violence only leads to more political violence,’ Colbert warned ahead of his regular opening monologue

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3 h. ago Big pharma will stop investing in UK, warns eminent scientist Sir John Bell

Warning follows news of US drugmaker Merck’s decision to scrap planned £1bn London research centreSir John Bell, a prominent scientist who brought business and government together during the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, has warned that other big pharmaceutical companies will stop investing in the UK, after Merck’s decision to scrap its planned £1bn London research centre.Bell, a former regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, told the BBC’s Today programme that he had spoken to several chief executives of large companies in the past six months “and they’re all in the same space, and that is, they’re not going to do any more investing in the UK”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean Gabin as a charismatic Parisian criminal hiding out in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers; he is protected there by the dense polyglot population of Indigenous locals that the French colonial authorities consider it imprudent to provoke. He is effectively given sanctuary, but also imprisoned in the unpoliceable, unknowable quarter that, like Polanski’s Chinatown, is a place that baffles and thwarts the imperial powers-that-be.It was a film remade by Hollywood in 1938 as Algiers, which was the debut of Hedy Lamarr and made a huge star of its French lead Charles Boyer, who is much sleeker and more conventionally photogenic than Gabin (but forever stuck with the misquoted line: “Come with me to the Casbah !” always being purred by nightcl...

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