53 m. ago Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story review – this sordid series doesn’t even reveal the worst of it

The case of the serial killer couple is so harrowing that everyone involved is still haunted to this day. But is there really any point in making them recall these hideous crimes? And why have crucial details been omitted?Another day, another addition to the “point and gasp” school of true crime documentaries; one which adds nothing to our understanding of a terrible crime or of those who committed it, nothing to our safety as individuals or as a society, nothing except our appetite for voyeurism and the normalisation of it. Most true crime documentaries are in this school. Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story is no exception. Perhaps the sordid, exploitative aspects of the genre are felt more strongly here precisely because it is one of our own stories, and one many of us remember reading about in the papers and seeing on the news as the awful discoveries were made at the time. Usually we watch these films at one remove. We can at least feel we are learning about how terrib...

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4 h. ago DWP PIP assessment review update as Liz Kendall recognises 'anxiety'

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall says it is vital to make sure the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is there for people who need it in the future as some are worried for the future

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4 h. ago JAN MOIR: A tearful Kim Kardashian was dripping in more than £1m worth of diamonds as she came face to face with £7.5m 'Grandpa Robbers' in jewellery heist trial

With her hair pinned up and dressed in a black Balenciaga dress, plus plenty of plunge and cleavage up top - because why not?

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5 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson breaks silence on new Farm star as he confirms Kaleb's future

Clarkson's Farm returns for a new series on Prime Video later this month and Jeremy Clarkson has just addressed some speculation following the release of a trailer for it recently

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5 h. ago Will there be Andor season 3? Disney Plus show’s future explained

Andor’s second season will come to an end on Disney Plus this week 📺

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5 h. ago FCA unveils plans to remove ‘outdated or duplicated’ insurance rules

The regulator said it will reduce regulatory costs and increase the competitiveness of the UK insurance sector.

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6 h. ago Real Housewives star banned from restaurant after refusing to pay for meal she ‘assumed’ was comped

Chef Max Tucci shared a statement with The Independent about the incident

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7 h. ago Louisiana: controversial Denka plant suspends production after dire losses

Chemical plant linked to air pollution and cancer risks in majority-Black region ‘exploring all options for the future’A controversial chemical plant in the centre of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” region has indefinitely suspended all production following dire financial results, the facility’s operators announced on Tuesday.The Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St John Parish has long been associated with chronic air pollution issues and was the subject of a years-long Guardian reporting series examining the disproportionate cancer risk rates experienced by the majority-Black fence-line communities that surround the facility. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago St Mirren loan ace Zach Hemming insists Middlesbrough hold key to his future

The 25-year-old has been with the Buddies since January and is about to enter the final year of his contract on Teesside.

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7 h. ago Criminals will be freed after serving just one THIRD of their jail sentences under new plans set to be revealed

Labour's long-awaited sentencing review is expected to suggest the biggest-ever reductions in the time prisoners must serve, in exchange for good behaviour while they are behind bars.

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8 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson confirms Kaleb Cooper's future on Clarkson's Farm after he was 'replaced' with stunning new farmhand Harriet

Jeremy Clarkson has finally confirmed the future of Kaleb Cooper on his Prime Video series Clarkson's Farm after he was 'replaced' with a stunning new farmhand.

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8 h. ago Sombre Rangers Training Centre says it all as men at top table shrouded in uncertainty

Ferguson’s future in doubt - but he is not the only one

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9 h. ago Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey

Cannes film festival opening filmDreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked rootsThe opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed festival slot which few films need or want, and whose occupants so often turn out to be the squawking overfed turkeys of the big screen. Such a one, sadly, is this listless and supercilious musical – ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values – which flatlines like a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler the moment the female lead opens her mouth to sing one of the film’s many terrible songs.Cécile (played by French singer Juliette Armanet) is about to open a restaurant in the big city having recently won a top-rated TV cooking show, and she is dating her colleague Sofiane (Tewfik Jallab). But when she hears that her adorable, exasperating old dad Gérard (François Rollin) has had a heart attack, brought on by the strain of running the family’s truck-stop cafe out in the boondoc...

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10 h. ago Ruben Amorim Man United sack latest as 'decision made' and meeting scheduled

Latest Manchester United news with a round-up of the reports surrounding Ruben Amorim's future

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10 h. ago Foreo Peach 2 Pro Max review: The future of effortless hair removal

The beauty industry’s not-so best-kept secret is a transformative device for the novice at-home beautician

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11 h. ago Trump ends all U.S. sanctions on Syria to give ravaged country a 'chance at greatness'

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he would be removing all sanctions from Syria .

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11 h. ago Trump says he will remove all Syria sanctions and hails $142bn Saudi

US president says he will order cessation of sanctions to give Syria ‘chance at greatness’ and praises defense sales agreement in speech at US-Saudi investment summitTrump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Elon Musk were seen chatting briefly during the reception in Riyadh, Reuters reports.Footage shows Trump speaking with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the ceremonial blue room, where he is meeting and greeting officials. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago BBC presenter Gary Lineker faces sack calls after sharing pro

Gary Lineker is facing calls to be fired from his job as Match of the Day host after he shared a pro-Palestine video that featured a controversial cartoon rat emoji

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12 h. ago Trump 2.0 takes quid pro quo fears to new heights with $400m flying grift

Accepting a ‘gift’ of a luxury jet from Qatar is just the most eye-catching of the president’s ethically questionable actsUS politics live – latest updatesFox & Friends, the show beamed into millions of rightwing Americans’ homes every morning, is not generally considered to be the place where Donald Trump faces the tough questions. The “& Friends” in the show’s title gives that away.But on Monday morning, the show’s co-host Brian Kilmeade put the billion-dollar question to the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt. News had just broken that Trump had decided to accept a gift of a $400m luxury jumbo jet from the government of Qatar, a petro-state which the president once denounced as a “funder of terrorism”. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Trump’s border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan Piker | Owen Jones

The leftwing, pro-Palestine streamer’s interrogation by airport officials on his return to the US shows a chilling escalation of the war on free speechWhere are all the free speech warriors on the right now? Hasan Piker, a popular streamer with 4.5 million followers across YouTube and Twitch, who has been hailed by mainstream publications such as the New Yorker and New York Times as the left’s answer to the deluge of rightwing internet influencers, says he was detained and questioned for hours by border control agents as he re-entered the US (Piker is a US citizen). It is an instructive moment. Countries that behave like this towards political commentators and dissenting voices who are their own citizens are either nakedly authoritarian, or well on the way.Piker was reportedly interrogated at length not just about Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah, but his views on Donald Trump. The 33-year-old pundit – an unapologetic champion of the Palestinian cause – stuck to a message of opposin...

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