32 m. ago Half of parents wouldn't encourage their child to be a builder

The lack of new construction recruits casts doubt on whether Labour's 1.5million homes target can be met.

Society

32 m. ago Zelenskyy says he wants to see an agreement on security guarantees before meeting Vladimir Putin – Ukraine war live

Amid US offering minimal security a group of allies led by Britain and France are putting together a military coalitionWe have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.The commission’s press release says the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports, including strategic sectors such as cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber.” Continue reading...

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34 m. ago Britain's top 16 pubs are revealed: Experts reveal the bars everyone should visit

Winning pubs in each region have been revealed by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), and are shortlisted for the national title of Pub of the Year, which will be announced in January.

Politics

35 m. ago Joss Stone reveals she's forgiven the stalkers who plotted her murder as she prepares to return to Britain from US with her husband and four kids

Joss Stone has revealed she has forgiven the men who plotted to kidnap and murder her - as she prepares to move back to Britain with her young family after years living in the US.

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57 m. ago Labour Party membership falls by almost 200,000 in five years

Figures published on Thursday showed the party’s membership was 333,235 at the end of last year – well down on its 532,046 members at the end of

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57 m. ago ‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth crisis in Ukraine

Women have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since the invasion, leading to the world’s lowest birth rate and the highest mortality rateIt was one of the most horrifying targets of Russia’s war on Ukraine so far. Reports showed a pregnant woman on a stretcher, her face ashen with shock, legs smeared with blood and a hand holding her bump. Behind her, the bombed-out ruins of Mariupol’s maternity hospital. More than a dozen people, including women in labour, were injured in the attack in March 2022. The woman photographed, Iryna Kalinina, later died along with her unborn baby.In the three years since then, maternity care in Ukraine has remained under constant attack, with more than 2,000 strikes on medical facilities, including 81 affecting maternal care and delivery rooms. Just last month, Diana Koshyk, seven months pregnant, was killed when a missile struck a maternity hospital in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region. Continue reading...

Events

57 m. ago Abby Dow exclusive: World Cup final pain has only made England's redemption bid stronger

A heartbreaking defeat three years ago will spur the team on, says the Red Roses wing

Politics

75 m. ago When girls married aged 12 and became the property of their husbands: Rare book lays out the 'rights' of women in 17th century Britain

The landmark legal tomb, titled The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights, gives an extraordinary insight into the laws that shaped women's lives in 17th century Britain.

Culture

87 m. ago Labour hits out at Israel's settlement plan to 'divide a Palestinian state in two'

The Foreign Secretary criticised the approval of the E1 project as he warned it would 'critically undermine' hopes of a two-state solution to the Middle East crisis.

Politics

89 m. ago Britain's top 16 pubs are revealed: Experts reveal the bars everyone should visit 

Winning pubs in each region have been revealed by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), and are shortlisted for the national title of Pub of the Year, which will be announced in January.

Politics

89 m. ago Which tax rises could fill the £50bn black hole in Britain’s balance sheet?

The Independent looks at Rachel Reeves’ options as she looks to fill the gaping hole in Britain’s public finances this autumn

Economics

91 m. ago When girls were married off aged 12 and men could hit their wives: Rare book lays out the 'rights' of women in 17th century Britain

The landmark legal tomb, titled The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights, gives an extraordinary insight into the laws that shaped women's lives in 17th century Britain.

Events

92 m. ago Britain's 'worst landlord' offers to sell woodland to council for a £4million 15

Fergus Wilson, 76, once Britain's biggest buy-to-let landlord with nearly 1,000 properties across Kent, is set to give up his chestnut coppice in Boughton Monchelsea for the proposed camp.

Economics

93 m. ago Which EVs have been discounted by the Government? Every model that qualifies for the Electric Car Grant

As new eligible models are being announced on a weekly basis, we've compiled all the info you need to know into one guide.

Politics

95 m. ago Furious Good Morning Britain fans hit out as Labour segment branded a 'farce'

ITV Good Morning Britain came under fire from viewers following its discussion on the ongoing migrant crisis with a Labour minister.

Events

1 hour ago Linda Calvey reveals heartbreaking comment from kids after first arrest

Britain's most infamous female gangster, Linda Calvey, known as The Black Widow, has revealed what her children said to her when they first visited her in prison

Events

1 hour ago Fiat reckons it’s found the formula for the perfect road trip playlist

Celebrating 70 years of the Fiat 600, the science-backed setlist includes hits by ABBA, Dua Lipa and more

Politics

1 hour ago Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about | Kenneth Roth

It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracyIt may be difficult for a real-estate mogul like Donald Trump to recognize, but Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not about slices of war-torn land in eastern Ukraine. It is about Ukraine’s democracy. Putin fears that the Russian people will see that democracy as an enticing alternative to his stultifying autocratic rule. Trump is unlikely to secure a peace deal unless he acts on that reality and changes the cost-benefit analysis behind Putin’s continuing war.Much of the public analysis of the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin, and the Washington collection of European leaders protecting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from the temperamental Trump, has been replete with red-herring issues. For example, Putin did not invade Ukraine because of feared Nato expansion. The unanimous consent of all Nato members required to admit Ukraine is nowhere on the horizon, especially since article 5 of the Nato tre...

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1 hour ago My husband is a lamp guy. But I will defend the Big Light for ever | Coco Khan

Let me be the lone voice of reason: I do not want to turn on five lamps to achieve the amount of light the Big Light deliversIf there is one thing I have learned from a life lived on the internet, it is that being sent into a spiral of existential dread can come from the unlikeliest of places. And what could be more unlikely than wondering about the dire prospects of humankind through the prism of the Big Light? That’s right, the lightbulb in the middle of the ceiling, the main light, the one operated from the wall switch that you instinctively feel around for when you enter a room. If TikTok is to be believed, people around the world are saying “Down with the Big Light”, with videos that urge viewers never to use it and claim turning it on is a dating red flag garnering millions of views – all of which has left me wondering: truly, is nothing sacred?I confess that defending the Big Light has long been a personal mission. My husband is a lamp guy. He values “mood”, whereas if I am u...

Politics

1 hour ago 'Stacey Dooley filmed TV show at my home but neighbours caused a scene'

Carla Bellucci, who was dubbed 'Britain's most hated woman' after admitting she faked depression to get a free nose job on the NHS, has taken aim at her 'nosey' neighbours

Culture