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'Devil, we've had enough'
The Independent

'Devil, we've had enough'

Why the anti-abortionists are a thorn in Trump’s campaign

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October 25, 2024
Child killer Letby loses bid to appeal latest conviction
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Child killer Letby loses bid to appeal latest conviction

Britain’s most prolific child killer Lucy Letby has lost a bid to appeal her latest conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl.

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October 25, 2024
Met to reopen probe into Wimbledon school crash
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Met to reopen probe into Wimbledon school crash

A mother says she is “living in hell” after her eight-year-old daughter was killed in the Wimbledon school crash – as police announced they are reopening the investigation into the tragedy.

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October 25, 2024
NHS trust to stand trial for manslaughter of woman, 22
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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.

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October 25, 2024
Industry anger prompts pub garden smoking ban rethink
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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.

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October 25, 2024
Slavery reparations debate sparks Labour Party storm
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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.

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October 25, 2024
What changes to workers' rights mean for the Budget
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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

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October 25, 2024
Reeves will borrow billions after big fiscal rules change
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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.

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October 25, 2024
British forces couldn't stop an invasion, admits Healey
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British forces couldn't stop an invasion, admits Healey

Defence secretary delivers damning verdict on military

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October 25, 2024
Stokes Hopes Joy Of Six Can Propel Side In Test Decider
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Stokes Hopes Joy Of Six Can Propel Side In Test Decider

Captain spreads good vibes’ ahead of Pakistan showdown

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October 24, 2024
Reeves 'Ponders Amazon Tax' To Save UK High Streets
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Commonwealth What's The Summit And Who Is Going?
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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.

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October 24, 2024
How The Internet Ruined Ricky Gervais's Comedy
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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

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October 24, 2024
Five Killed In Terror Attack On Turkish Defence Firm
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Critics Dismiss Trump And Musk's Row With Labour
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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

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October 24, 2024
Jose, United and the sliding doors season that never was
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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

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October 24, 2024
Nunez strike conclusive as Reds survive close contest
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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.

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October 24, 2024
City cruise on autopilot in an embarrassing mismatch
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Different class: the peculiar rise of M&S food shopping
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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

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October 24, 2024
I left the man I loved but could no longer live with
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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

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October 24, 2024
'This is not just my battle': Pelicot testifies in rape trial
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'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”.

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October 24, 2024
'I love my child but I'm raising my rapist's baby'
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'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

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October 24, 2024
Filming on the front line of America's 'war on women'
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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

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October 24, 2024
Manchester Arena survivors win harassment lawsuit
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Officers who fire fatal shots to be granted anonymity
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Officers who fire fatal shots to be granted anonymity

Plans unveiled after Kaba marksman forced into hiding

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October 24, 2024
Woman, 60, arrested after three deaths at care home
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Sales of Johnson's memoir slow despite '£2m advance'
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Cost of housing one asylum seeker for year jumps £24k
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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.

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October 24, 2024
Let workers strike for one year, government proposes
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Let workers strike for one year, government proposes

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

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October 24, 2024
Starmer shouldn't mind law chief dressing him down
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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.

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October 24, 2024