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NHS trust to stand trial for manslaughter of woman, 22

An NHS trust will become the first ever to be tried for the corporate manslaughter of a mental health patient after being charged over the death of a 22-year-old woman.

Industry anger prompts pub garden smoking ban rethink

Sir Keir Starmer is set to drop a proposed ban on smoking in pub and restaurant gardens, it’s been reported.

Slavery reparations debate sparks Labour Party storm

Sir Keir Starmer has sparked a row at the heart of the Labour Party after senior figures urged him to rethink his decision to rule out reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade.

What changes to workers' rights mean for the Budget

Talk of year-long strikes is overblown, says Sean O’Grady but proposals could still leave businesses with a 5bn bill

Reeves will borrow billions after big fiscal rules change

Rachel Reeves has announced a change to the fiscal rules ahead of next week’s budget, allowing her to borrow billions more each year.

British forces couldn't stop an invasion, admits Healey

Defence secretary delivers damning verdict on military

Stokes Hopes Joy Of Six Can Propel Side In Test Decider

Captain spreads good vibes’ ahead of Pakistan showdown

Reeves 'Ponders Amazon Tax' To Save UK High Streets

The chancellor is considering a tax hike for online retail giants like Amazon in an effort to level the playing field for high street competitors.

Commonwealth What's The Summit And Who Is Going?

Following their visit to Australia, the King and Queen are in Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) – the 27th such summit and the first regular meeting since the death of Elizabeth II.

How The Internet Ruined Ricky Gervais's Comedy

As the comic returns with his new stand-up tour Mortality, Louis Chilton says he needs a break from social media

Five Killed In Terror Attack On Turkish Defence Firm

Assailants have set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defence company Tusas, killing five people and wounding 22.

Critics Dismiss Trump And Musk's Row With Labour

Donald Trump’s campaign team files a complaint accusing Starmer’s party of making illegal donations to Democrats

Jose, United and the sliding doors season that never was

What if Jose Mourinho had succeeded Alex Ferguson in 2013? Miguel Delaney on Old Trafford’s alternate history Oat x

Nunez strike conclusive as Reds survive close contest

Darwin Nunez’s first-half goal was enough to earn Liverpool a 10 Champions League win at RB Leipzig as the outstanding start to Arne Slot’s reign continued in Germany.

City cruise on autopilot in an embarrassing mismatch

A Pep Guardiola side is often described as the best in Champions League history. Another has the statistical distinction as the hardest to beat.

Different class: the peculiar rise of M&S food shopping

Are we suddenly flush? Or is treating ourselves to top-tier groceries simply the only achievable’ luxury these days? Helen Coffey on how the store beat the cost of living crisis

I left the man I loved but could no longer live with

A year after novelist Jane Green and her husband decided to end their relationship, her friends think she’s had a happy divorce. Is such a thing ever really possible, she wonders

'This is not just my battle': Pelicot testifies in rape trial

Gisele Pelicot, the French grandmother who has been hailed as a hero for insisting the trial of her ex-husband and dozens of other men accused of raping her be held in public, has taken to the stand and described herself as a “woman who is totally destroyed” but that she has a “determination to change society”.

'I love my child but I'm raising my rapist's baby'

Kelly Rissman reports on a story that highlights the hurdles women can face in the reproductive care system in America

Filming on the front line of America's 'war on women'

‘The A-Word’, a new documentary film by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court upended access to abortion care

Manchester Arena survivors win harassment lawsuit

Two Manchester Arena bombing survivors have won their High Court harassment case against a former television producer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed the attack was staged.

Officers who fire fatal shots to be granted anonymity

Plans unveiled after Kaba marksman forced into hiding

Woman, 60, arrested after three deaths at care home

Detectives investigating the deaths of three people at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, have arrested a 60-year-old woman on suspicion of manslaughter. Seven people were taken to hospital after the alarm was raised early yesterday morning.

Sales of Johnson's memoir slow despite '£2m advance'

Sales of Boris Johnson’s political memoir are understood to have slumped well below expectations, with the much-advertised release now on track to be overtaken by a cookbook.

Cost of housing one asylum seeker for year jumps £24k

The average annual cost of housing and supporting an asylum seeker has risen by £24,000 per person in the past four years as the Home Office becomes increasingly reliant on more expensive hotel accommodation, according to a new report.

Systemic failure in mental health care, report reveals

Vulnerable mental health patients are being traumatised, sexually assaulted and physically harmed in UK hospitals – and have even managed to escape, the safety watchdog has warned in its first major national investigation.

Let workers strike for one year, government proposes

Workers would be given twice as long to strike under proposals being considered by the government.

Starmer shouldn't mind law chief dressing him down

The normalisation of women in senior positions in public life continues apace. Rachel Reeves, the first female chancellor, was sitting next to Angela Rayner as she stood in at Prime Minister’s Questions today, in the middle of a row of six women on the government front bench.

Badenoch attacks Starmer's 'student politics' on Trump

In the first part of an interview with The Independent, the would-be Conservative leader wades in on the UK-US row

Trump Angry About Labour Party Election Interference

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has filed a complaint against the Labour Party for what it claims is “interference” in the US election.