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What does the Autumn Budget mean for my money and the Tory...
The Independent’s associate editor Sean O’Grady is on hand to explain how planned...
Conmen using increasingly sophisticated AI to scam people...
Two victims of web deception told the Home Affairs Committee that social media companies...
Ballet teacher accused of abusing pupils seemed like Prince...
Jonathan Barton, 41, denies all charges against him at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.
Key measures included in Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement...
Chancellor reveals 2% national insurance cut, as he claims Tory economic plan is...
Everything we know about North Wales crash that killed...
Four teenage boys aged between 16 to 18 were killed in the tragic crash
Sending prisoners abroad to cost at least £200m and won’t...
Justice secretary Alex Chalk plans to send prisoners to jails abroad to ease overcrowding...
Ashley Dale’s father talks of ‘history repeating itself’...
A statement from Steve Dunne was read at Liverpool Crown Court as four men were...
Chancellor criticised for ‘tinkering at the edges’ of net...
Improving grid access was welcomed but support for homes to enhance energy efficiency...
Sunak welcomes South Korean leader to No 10 to sign diplomatic...
The Prime Minister and his wife greeted Yoon Suk Yeol on the steps outside No 10...
Power lines cash a half-baked attempt to buy people off,...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said those living beside new powerlines could get up...
Mother of one of four boys killed in Snowdonia says ‘nightmare...
Tributes pour in after bodies of four teenagers pulled from overturned car found...
Tears, candles and prayers as town mourns four teenagers...
Shrewsbury is gripped by grief following the death of Wilf Fitchett, Jevon Hirst,...
Boy with severe asthma died after multiple medical failings,...
A 10-day inquest in Chelmsford identified a string of failings in William Gray’s...
Mother of boy killed in North Wales shares grief as investigation...
Mother says ‘nightmare will never end’ as boys pulled from wreck of overturned car...
Van-Tam tells inquiry his family was threatened with having...
England’s former deputy chief medical officer said he became seriously concerned...
O’Neill says she believes powersharing could be restored...
The Sinn Fein Stormont leader was in Stormont for a meeting with Scottish First...
Jack urges Scottish Government to use cash ‘wisely’ and...
But Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the autumn statement had not provided...
McDonald’s branch bans teenagers from coming into restaurant...
McDonald’s staff face verbal abuse in Fort William branch
Welfare reforms are a cynical attack on disability benefits,...
The Chancellor said many unemployed people ‘can and want to work’ but the ‘system...
Hunt claims UK has ‘turned a corner’ as he slashes national...
With an eye on next year’s election, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt began easing the tax...
Taoiseach hopes that Emily Hand will be among first hostages...
The Department of Foreign Affairs said there has been no official confirmation whether...
Laurence Fox is ‘intelligent racist’, High Court libel...
The actor-turned-politician is being sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake...
Single mother says Hunt’s welfare reforms ‘won’t really...
Universal Credit and other benefits will increase by 6.7% next year in line with...
Chancellor pledges up to £7m to tackle antisemitism in...
A headteachers’ union has called for a broader society-wide effort to tackle all...
UK tax burden remains set for post-war record high, despite...
Nearly four million additional workers are likely to be brought into the tax system...
Review into Northern Ireland flooding needed to learn lessons,...
Several towns in Northern Ireland were badly impacted by flooding as a result of...
UK zoo celebrates birth of critically endangered eastern...
Zookeepers captured the birth on camera.
Sunak ‘opening the door’ to May election with tax giveaway,...
Government hoping voters ‘feel effects’ of January’s national insurance cut by spring,...
Whitty never told about Eat Out to Help Out but ‘should...
England’s chief medical officer is giving evidence to the public inquiry into the...
Autumn statement – latest: Jeremy Hunt cuts national insurance...
Chancellor reveals benefits and national insurance changes as Office for Budget...
Watch live: South Korean president Yoon attends London...
Watch live as South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol attends a banquet at the Guildhall...
Barely a mention of education in autumn statement, say...
Warning of cuts to education provision because schools were not able to cope with...
James Cleverly denies claims he called Stockton North a...
Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham demanded apology in the Commons from home secretary...
Covid inquiry: Jonathan Van-Tam says family was threatened...
Sir Jonathan recalls police involvement after ‘extremely hateful messages’ as he...
UK-EU divergence putting some farming sectors in NI at...
A representative from the UFU called on the UK Government to deliver a mechanism...
Senior Tories call for faster movement on low tax economy...
Dr Liam Fox and Dame Priti Patel were among those urging Government to go further...
Living standards, tax levels and other historical benchmarks
Disposable income is likely to be 3.5% lower in 2024/25 than before the Covid-19...
Watchdog lowers forecast for sales of electric cars
The Office for Budget Responsibility has reduced its forecast for electric vehicles’...
Hunt’s tax cuts based on ‘implausible’ public spending...
Economists said the Chancellor’s tax reductions will not prevent this from being...
Man charged with murder of 27-year-old partner
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 27-year-old woman in West...
Jeremy Hunt admits it will 'take time' to bring taxes down
Jeremy Hunt has acknowledged it will "take time" to bring taxes down, but he had...
King hands honorary MBEs to K-popstars
The King presented K-pop band Blackpink with honorary MBEs a day after hailing them...
Hospitals quizzed on CCTV in neonatal units by Letby inquiry
Every hospital with a neonatal unit in England has been asked whether it has considered...
Temperatures to plummet as Arctic blast to strike UK
The first taste of winter is on its way with the UK set to see wintry showers -...
Scotland's only oil refinery could cease operations - with...
Scotland's only oil refinery could cease operations in 2025 - with hundreds of jobs...
Pensions, taxes, wages and alcohol duty: The top announcements
Here are the main announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement to...
Four men who murdered council worker Ashley Dale in her...
Four men have been handed life sentences for murdering council worker Ashley Dale...
Mother of one of four teens found dead on camping trip...
The mother of one of the four teenagers found dead after a car crash in North Wales...
National insurance to be cut from 12% to 10% - but tax...
National insurance is to be cut by two percentage points, the chancellor has announced.
Foster carer jailed for murdering young girl she was trying...
Katie Tidmarsh was convicted at Leicester Crown Court of killing one-year-old Ruby...
Harry, Elton John and Doreen Lawrence ‘delighted’ after...
Seven people, including the Duke of Sussex, have been given the green light to continue...
Who are the seven people suing the Daily Mail’s publisher?
A High Court judge has ruled that legal action brought by the group, including the...
What are the latest developments in the Duke of Sussex’s...
Harry has been involved in six legal challenges in recent months.
Voices: Should Suella Braverman resign over pro-Palestine...
The Home secretary has been accused of ‘stirring hatred and division’ ahead of a...
Mail publisher fails to deliver ‘knockout blow’ to Harry...
Associated Newspapers Limited has denied allegations of involvement in unlawful...
British Muslims ‘feel betrayed’ as Sunak and Starmer both...
Muslim communities in the UK have shared their concerns as Labour MP quits front...
Courts failing to follow ‘basic legal steps’ when jailing...
Thousands may have been jailed without proper legal justification, ‘deeply concerning’...
Doubt cast over hearing of Raymond McCord Jr inquest
Belfast Coroner’s Court heard it is unlikely the inquest will be able to finish...
Gunman who killed Ashley Dale ‘lying to get co-defendants...
The environmental health worker was shot in her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in...
Two charged after Rochdale cenotaph daubed with ‘Free Palestine’...
The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who also designed the cenotaph on...
Owner of inflatable beach trampoline that exploded and...
Ava-May Littleboy was thrown into the air at the ‘height of a house’ when the equipment...
UK faces Ferrero Rocher shortage over Christmas
‘The spectre of Christmas without this beloved yuletide treat would be devastating,’...
Family ‘broken’ after couple died from carbon monoxide...
John and Susan Cooper were poisoned as they slept after the room next to them was...
Supermarket chain axes almost all self-service tills after...
Booths said they would remove the machines following customer feedback
Church attendance figures rise but still below pre-pandemic...
Average weekly attendance was 654,000 people last year,
In Pictures: Past sacrifices remembered at anniversary...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak viewed Remembrance Crosses outside Westminster Abbey...
Man who murdered his mother in frenzied attack jailed for...
Lewis Bush inflicted multiple injuries on Kelly Pitt at her home in Newport, south...
Cenotaph: What is the history and significance of the Whitehall...
War memorial honouring Britain’s fallen soldiers designed by Sir Edward Lutyens...
Proposed changes to surrogacy law ‘will not be taken forward...
The Government had commissioned a review amid rising demand in an area where the...
‘Did you forget your resignation letter?’: Suella Braverman...
Suella Braverman was confronted by a shout of “Did you forget your resignation letter?”...
Terror police probe fake video of Sadiq Khan spread online...
The video of the London Mayor comes amid an extraordinary row over a major pro-Palestine...
Ill baby’s parents say ‘right’ to end treatment at home...
Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth are appealing after a High Court judge said medics...
Gracie Spinks ‘anxious and scared’ by ‘creepy’ colleague’s...
A complaint the 23-year-old had made to their workplace was read out on Friday at...
Owner of inflatable that exploded and killed girl, 3, is...
Ava-May Littleboy was thrown into the air when the equipment failed on Gorleston...
Boy, 14, accused of murdering Alfie Lewis makes first appearance...
Alfie, 15, was attacked in the Horsforth area of Leeds on Tuesday afternoon as children...
Acts of Remembrance take place across Northern Ireland
Chief Constable Jon Boutcher laid a wreath at the Police Service and RUC GC Memorial...
Outcry as video shows homeless people’s tents being destroyed...
Videos circulating on social media show tents and belongings being destroyed by...
Police find second body during murder investigation of...
A17-year-old boy was arrested as part of the initial murder investigation earlier...
‘The act of remembering has got lost’: Veterans on if protests...
‘It’s our one day of the year and it is time to get behind us. We all feel a bit...
Army truck rampage driver jailed for wrecking police cars
Geoffrey Marshall used a US Army truck to wreck police cars and other vehicles following...
Boy guilty of murdering teenager who was in relationship...
Ipswich Crown Court was told that the motive for the stabbing ‘stemmed from the...
Prince Harry wins right to continue legal fight against...
Sir Elton John, Sadie Frost and Baroness Doreen Lawrence can also continue their...
Six jailed over £1.5bn plot to smuggle cocaine into UK...
The gang’s plot saw 15 tonnes of the Class A drug hidden in pallets of frozen chicken...
British hostage crisis experts in Israel to help efforts...
Highly experienced operatives are part of efforts to free the more than 200 people...
Braverman grows more isolated over claim of police bias...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt distanced himself from her words and Downing Street declined...
Cat-kicker caught after video footage went viral admits...
Terry Bree was sentenced to a 12-month community order and ordered to pay £200 in...
Teenager found guilty of plotting mosque terror attack...
Joe Metcalfe has been jailed for 10 years with an additional licence period of six...
Murder inquiry police find body of second teenager and...
The body of a boy believed to be 17 was found on Friday, five days after a 16-year-old...
Almost 2,000 Met officers to be on duty in central London...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of London for...
Museum closed temporarily during pro-Palestinian protest
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow was targeted by the Art Workers for...
Braverman ‘fanning flames of hate’ towards Muslims over...
It comes as Islamophobic incidents up by 600 per cent in UK since Hamas’ attack...
Man who shook partner’s toddler to death guilty of murder
Maya Chappell’s mother has been convicted of child cruelty and allowing her death...
Irish government urged to refer Israel-Hamas conflict to...
Opposition TDs want Ireland to make a referral to the International Criminal Court...
Three women deny paraglider images indicating Hamas support...
Heba Alhayek, Pauline Ankunda and Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo appeared at Westminster...
Councils call for 20% uplift for Healthy Start to meet...
The scheme, which helps pregnant women or families with children under the age of...
Veteran, 98, pays tribute to fallen soldiers who died during...
Albert Lamond fought in the Royal Navy during the war, and says the shocking memories...
‘Disappointing’ more not done to understand inequality...
A report also warned of ‘unprecedented pressures on the prison estate’ which it...
Sunak issues plea for ‘unity’ amid tensions over Gaza march...
The Prime Minister said those taking part in a planned pro-Palestinian march should...
Duke of Kent steps down as president of Commonwealth War...
The Duke of Kent held the position of president for more than 50 years.
Mother found dead by children with single stab injury in...
Perseverance Ncube, 35, was found by her two young children with a single stab injury...