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Special envoy promise set to help Britons held abroad

Six Britons held for years without a fair trial in countries with close trading links to the UK have fresh hopes of release as a cross-party group of MPs launches a pressure group to fight for their freedom, The Independent can reveal.

Four treated in hospital after school bus crashes

Four people are in hospital after a bus carrying 43 schoolchildren crashed in Northern Ireland yesterday.

Millions of train passengers face Christmas travel chaos

Millions of train passengers will face serious disruption on the UK’s main railway lines to and from London over the upcoming Christmas period, with warnings that they should start planning alternative routes now.

Recess is over - so what's in store as MPs head back?

Good news. The House of Commons is back in session, and the coming weeks will provide ample opportunities for your parliamentarians to opine, shine, and, of course, whine for personal and party advantage, as well as for the betterment of the British people.

Farage U-turns on claim he was blocked from surgeries

Nigel Farage has U-turned on his claim that he was told not to hold face-to-face meetings with voters as a result of security concerns in his Essex constituency.

Private schools and unions call for pause on VAT plan

An unlikely alliance of independent schools, trade unions and tax experts are heaping pressure on Rachel Reeves to delay a tax raid on private education.

The election guru who put Starmer in Downing Street

Morgan McSweeney is set to take over the role of Sue Gray

Starmer has 'completely lost grip', warn Labour grandees

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PM takes aim at 'malign' Iran - and vows never to stop selling arms to Israel

Sir Keir Starmer used the first anniversary of Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel to urge the international community to turn its focus on the “malign” regime in Iran.

Ten-man Forest earn draw in feisty battle at the Bridge

Chelsea’s winning run in the Premier League was brought to an end by 10-man Nottingham Forest who battled to a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge to maintain their own strong start to the season.

Brighton fight back to end Tottenham's winning run

Brighton scored three times in 18 second-half minutes to fight back from two goals down to stun Tottenham and claim a 3-2 win after an entertaining encounter at Amex Stadium.

United's vanilla display at Villa may yet save Ten Hag

Manchester United have rarely found relief in a five-game winless run but, for the second time in four days, there was some respite for the beleaguered Erik ten Hag.

One day in October that we have to keep remembering

Documentary maker Dan Reed's new film focuses on just one of the kibbutzim attacked on 7 October, as he explains to Guy Walters why the memory must never be allowed to fade

Wreck of 'ghost ship' found off the coast of California

The USS Stewart was deliberately sunk on 24 May 1946

'Impossible' for Beijing to rule Taiwan as motherland

As China seeks to 'reunite' the self-governing island with the mainland, Lai Ching-te insists his country is 'independent'

Heinz apologises as Black family advert sparks outrage

Heinz has issued an apology after it came under fire for an advertisement currently on display in Tube stations across London.

Landlord charges 'entitled' diners for wasting pub food

A pub landlord has warned customers he will charge them extra for large amounts of food they do not finish from his all-you-caneat roast dinner buffet.

Man endures cancer battle away from home as he waits for cladding work to begin

A homeowner who was evacuated from his flat a year ago due to dangerous cladding faces a battle with cancer from his temporary home as remediation work has not yet started.

'No one should live with threat of domestic abuse'

Dermot O'Leary backs Independent campaign for a refuge

Fuel payment cut sees these pensioners barely managing

Retired electrical design engineer Paul Taylor is not a big spender.

Who will go head-to-head for the Tory leadership?

With just days to go before the four candidates in the Conservative leadership race are whittled down to just two by MPs, it appears there is all to play for.

How PM's reshuffle deals a big blow to the Tory plotters

The plot by the right-wing press to destabilise the new government has been busted.

Gray quits as PM's chief of staff to avoid ‘distraction'

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to accept the resignation of his chief of staff Sue Gray in the latest attempt by the prime minister to regain control of the political agenda and end the chaos in his government.

Don't forget my daughter is still in Gaza 'hell' after year as a hostage, pleads mother

The mother of a 28-year-old British-Israeli woman being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for almost a year has urged the UK government to “fight for her release”.

Peace in the Middle East is possible... we must act now

Aziz Abu Sarah is Palestinian, Maoz Inon Israeli. Both have lost family members to the conflict in terrible cirumstances but here they join forces with a message of action and hope

'I don't have the words to express the pain we feel'

Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna recount the shocking stories of those who have lived, worked and died in the Gaza Strip

The Hamas attacks were fuelled by antisemitism

Shlomo Mansour turned 86 while being held captive, having been kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023.

Numbers show the scale of a deadly year in Middle East

As calls for a ceasefire in Gaza go unheeded, and the conflict spreads, figures highlight the toll war is taking in the region.

NFL faces compelling decision as London Games return with Jets vs Vikings

The London Games are back with perhaps the finest NFL quarterback of the last decade and the highest-paid wide receiver in the league set to feature.

Jota seals Liverpool win but talisman Alisson limps off

Alisson Becker remains the king of Selhurst Park, but if he and Virgil van Dijk showed what Liverpool’s title bid will be built on this season, a win at Crystal Palace was perhaps also another indication of why the Reds spent part of this summer looking at the future.