The Independent - March 06, 2025

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March 06, 2025

Trump raises pressure with end to intelligence sharing

US president delivers further blow to Ukraine’s defences

4 mins

‘Special relationship’ shaky, warns Churchill’s grandson

Winston Churchill’s grandson has accused Donald Trump’s team of despising Europe after a furious row which saw vicepresident JD Vance criticised for disrespecting Britain’s war dead.

2 mins

Almost half of Britons want Trump state visit cancelled

Poll shows anger at US president over stance on Ukraine

2 mins

US tariffs will push down growth’ in blow to Reeves

Donald Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on US imports will shrink the British economy, Rachel Reeves has been warned by Britain’s top economists.

3 mins

‘Austerity chancellor’ plans to cut billions from welfare

Rachel Reeves is planning billions of pounds of cuts to benefits and other public spending ahead of this month’s spring statement, it has emerged.

4 mins

Rishi reflects on his biggest mistakes in Downing Street

Rishi Sunak has spoken for the first time about his relatively brief and challenging time as prime minister, his record on migration, and his pledge to stop the boats”.

2 mins

Justice secretary opposes two-tier’ sentencing plans

The justice secretary is calling for new guidance for judges to consider a defendant’s ethnicity when deciding whether to send them to prison to be reversed over concerns of two-tier sentencing”.

2 mins

Rapist may have attacked scores of women, say police

A serial sex predator is suspected of raping more than 60 women while studying in London, as the Met Police launch an urgent appeal for victim-survivors.

4 mins

Man wins 700,000 battle over mother’s deathbed will

An electrician has won a 700,000 will fight after a video emerged of his younger sister holding and propelling” their dying mother’s hand as she signed over her fortune on her deathbed.

5 mins

More women doctors than men in Britain for first time

For the first time ever there are more women doctors than men in the UK, new figures show.

2 mins

Council squeezes homeless family into a one-bed flat

A mother of two has been forced to sleep with her daughter in their living room for over a year after a London council put the homeless family in a one-bed flat. S

3 mins

Abattoir staff inflicted pain, fear and distress’ on sheep

Three workers sacked after secret cameras reveal horrors

4 mins

China ready for any type of war’ with US due to tariffs

Beijing warns Washington against using coercion and threats

2 mins

Trump warns Hamas to continue with peace deal

Donald Trump issued a stark warning that the US would help destroy Hamas if leaders of the militant group didn’t leave Gaza and release their remaining Israeli hostages.

2 mins

Residents brace for cyclone near east coast of Australia

Citizens are stacking sandbags to protect their properties ahead of a tropical cyclone forecast to become the first in 51 years to hit the Australian east coast near Brisbane, the nation’s thirdmost populous city.

2 mins

FEEDING THE BEAST

‘Stranger Things’ star Millie Bobby Brown has started a viral conversation on the way we talk about women online. But, asks Olivia Petter, has she accidentally helped build a culture in which people feel at liberty to rip into how women look?

5 mins

The White Lotus star biting back at Instagram face’

Aimee Lou Wood has instantly won viewers’ hearts with her happy-go-lucky charm. But it’s her refreshingly real face that makes the British actor a true role model, says Helen Coffey

5 mins

This is Marvel’s last chance to strike streaming gold

Blind superhero Matt Murdock is back in Daredevil: Born Again’. It follows a run of abject misfires for the sprawling franchise, says Louis Chilton but this could be different

4 mins

Royal Ballet breathes new life into Romeo and Juliet

Decades on, Kenneth MacMillan’s classic production still has the power to move audiences. Zoe Anderson swoons

2 mins

CARIBBEAN SEEN

Jamaica’s past and present are laid bare in Marlon James’s superb crime thriller Get Millie Black’, writes Phil Harrison

3 mins

Story of UK’s last executed woman will make you shiver

‘A Cruel Love’ explores Ruth Ellis’s case and inspires another superb performance by Toby Jones, writes Phil Harrison

3 mins

Slot’s tactical masterstroke decisive against better team

Écraser et attraper, as those at the Parc des Princes might say.

4 mins

Stalked Raducanu 'couldn’t see the ball through tears’

British ace opens up on ordeal at last month’s Dubai Open

2 mins

Meet the six rookies racing to the future on the F1 grid

Last year was all about the old guard. Now Kieran Jackson savours what’s in store from a young, quick new generation

4 mins

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