91 m. ago Highway Code rule tells drivers to check these five things this winter

Drivers are being urged to make some essential checks this winter

Transport

92 m. ago Motorcyclist jailed for injuring girl after driving at group filming TikTok

The 13-year-old victim suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident in a Southampton park.

Events

2 h. ago Bari Weiss goes full Elon Musk, demands CBS News staffers tell her ‘how you spend your working hours’

‘We’re all being DOGE’d,’ a CBS News journalist told The Independent. ‘And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.’

Economics

3 h. ago Willie Collum reveals Celtic penalty has seen SFA change VAR rules as Kilmarnock controversy audio emerges

Lewis Mayo was controversially penalised for handball in the final moments of the Rugby Park clash

Politics

4 h. ago Manchester terrorist was being investigated for TWO rapes on separate women when he carried out synagogue attack

Islamic State supporter Jihad Al-Shamie was known to have been on bail for raping a woman when he ploughed his car into Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester.

Events

4 h. ago Police make chilling discovery after abandoned little boy honks car horn for hours

Police officers responded to reports of a six-year-old boy abandoned in a truck, parked outside a house - where they made a chilling discovery.

Events

4 h. ago Unintended victim of poisoned drinks plot by evil GP tells how his hair began falling out after drinking deadly thallium

Project manager Torquil Gundlach, 51, was gifted a bottle of Smirnoff from his father-in-law Patrick O'Hara, with both men unaware it had been tampered with by family doctor Thomas Kwan.

Events

4 h. ago Patients ‘justified’ to feel government failed them, Freeman tells inquiry

Jeane Freeman also said that with hindsight she would not have allowed the flagship hospital in Glasgow to have opened.

Politics

4 h. ago John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedeliaMoody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82The moment everything changed for John Lodge and his bandmates in the Moody Blues came one night at the Fiesta club in Stockton. Lodge and Justin Hayward were new to the band, Lodge playing bass and Hayward guitar, who had been booked into a well-paid series of cabaret shows in northern England. The Moodies were playing a revue-style show, with bits of R&B punctuated by comedy numbers, dressed in blue suits. They’d had a big hit a couple of years earlier with Go Now, but by 1966 they looked and sounded passé.After the show, Hayward told me a few years ago, a man came to the dressing room to see the band. “Normally they would say something like, ‘Oh, you’re great.’ But he said, ‘I just thought I’d tell you, you’re the worst fucking band I’ve seen in my life. You’re rubbish. And somebody’s got to tell you.’” Hayward and sing...

Politics

5 h. ago Brandi Carlile: 'I always wanted Elton John to tell me I was good'

American superstar Brandi Carlile on growing up poor, working with her idols and why she swallowed her disdain for wellness to try a spot of self-reflection

Politics

5 h. ago Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

Esmeralda 7 would have been one of biggest solar power projects and produced enough energy to power 2m homesThe Trump administration has killed a massive proposed solar power project in Nevada that would have been one of the largest in the world, indicating that the White House plans to attack not only wind power but all renewable energy.On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) changed the status of the Esmeralda 7 project to say its environmental review has been “cancelled”, climate publication Heatmap first reported. The agency provided no explanation and did not respond to a request for comment. Continue reading...

Politics

6 h. ago Rasmus Hojlund revival reflects poorly on Manchester United as telling point made

Rasmus Hojlund continued his explosive start to the season with two goals for Denmark, suggesting Man Utd may have blundered by offloading the young striker too soon

Politics

6 h. ago Wrexham owner's wife speaks out on claim her husband dated Kim Kardashian

Kaitlin Olson, the wife of Wrexham co-owner Rob Mac, has revealed how her husband has been telling their children that he once dated Kim Kardashian - but it's not true

Politics

6 h. ago Shocking moment chimpanzee smokes a cigarette after tourists throw one into zoo enclosure

The footage was filmed at Lanzhou Wildlife Park in north-western China, and posted on social media where it quickly caused outrage among animal lovers.

Events

6 h. ago 'Sacrilegious' graffiti exhibition makes Canterbury cathedral 'look like an underground car park in Peckham' say appalled worshippers

The art installation at Canterbury Cathedral allows people to pose questions to God, and they are then plastered on pillars around the ancient building in Kent.

Politics

6 h. ago Hidden sign your cat is in pain and what their whiskers are really telling you

Cats are masters at hiding their pain, but there are a few tell-tale signs that your feline friend is in discomfort

Politics

7 h. ago 3 life changes that could get your PIP benefits stopped if you don’t tell DWP

People who don’t report these changes could risk being taken to court or having to pay penalties

Politics

7 h. ago South Lanarkshire Council breaks ground on 19 properties in Larkhall

More than half of the homes (11 in total) will take into account specific care need, with wheelchair accessibility, structural hoist capacity, space for carers and dedicated accessible parking spaces.

Politics

7 h. ago The 'psychics' exploiting Gus Lamont's disappearance: 'Mediums' take to social media claiming to use their 'gifts' to help search for missing four

August 'Gus' Lamont vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of the remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, nearly 200 miles north of Adelaide .

Events

8 h. ago Fire crews battle huge blaze near Scots caravan park through the night

Fire engines remain at the scene and are working to make the area safe.

Events