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How The Internet Ruined Ricky Gervais's Comedy
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
The Independent

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'
The Independent

'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'
The Independent

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
The Independent

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'
The Independent

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
The Independent

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
Badenoch attacks Starmer's 'student politics' on Trump
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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

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October 24, 2024
Trump Angry About Labour Party Election Interference
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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.

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October 23, 2024
Vaccine For Winter Vomiting Bug Set For Pioneering Trial
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Vaccine For Winter Vomiting Bug Set For Pioneering Trial

A vaccine to guard against the winter vomiting bug norovirus is set for a year-long groundbreaking NHS trial after early results showed it creates a strong immune response”.

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October 23, 2024
Starmer Faces 'King John' Jibe From Lady Chief Justice
The Independent

Starmer Faces 'King John' Jibe From Lady Chief Justice

Keir Starmer appeared to be likened to one of England’s most notorious monarchs today by the head of England’s judiciary.

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October 23, 2024
Putin Plays Host To 36 World Leaders At Brics Summit
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Putin Plays Host To 36 World Leaders At Brics Summit

Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and other global leaders have gathered in the Russian city of Kazan for the Brics summit of emerging economies, which the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying the Western liberal order.

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October 23, 2024
Faster-Growing Economy Is Fillip For Reeves's Budget
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Faster-Growing Economy Is Fillip For Reeves's Budget

The UK economy will grow faster than previously thought as lower inflation and borrowing costs lead to a boost in business activity, a filip for chancellor Rachel Reeves as she aims to fix the nation’s finances.

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October 23, 2024
Can The Chancellor Avoid A Budget Omnishambles?
The Independent

Can The Chancellor Avoid A Budget Omnishambles?

Some mixed news for Rachel Reeves with one week to go until her Budget... and, on balance, it’s encouraging.

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October 23, 2024
The simmer of love is the hottest thing about Rivals
The Independent

The simmer of love is the hottest thing about Rivals

Danny Dyer and Katherine Parkinson are the unexpected heart that makes Jilly Cooper’s new Disney+ adaptation more than just a shallow bonkfest

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October 23, 2024
WHERE EAGLE DARES
The Independent

WHERE EAGLE DARES

Don Henley bounced back from the messy breakup of his bestselling band to fashion a pop classic. Ed Power on the potent nostalgia of ‘The Boys of Summer’, as it turns 40

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October 23, 2024
How I was Coldplayed by a ticket scam on Facebook
The Independent

How I was Coldplayed by a ticket scam on Facebook

Someone on your social media has tickets to a gig but can’t make it any more – seems legit. Except, in Kate Solomon’s case it wasn’t, and revealed an insidious new frontier of fraud

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October 23, 2024
Hosts look to crack England and the pitch in Rawalpindi
The Independent

Hosts look to crack England and the pitch in Rawalpindi

England take on Pakistan in a decider third Test that begins at Rawalpindi this morning, but this time around the hosts think they have found the means to unravel Bazball: a spinning pitch.

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October 23, 2024
Fury has a problem - one bold move could save him
The Independent

Fury has a problem - one bold move could save him

Smart fighters win rematches, which could be a problem for Tyson Fury in late December when he fights Oleksandr Usyk again, following last May’s defeat in Riyadh.

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October 23, 2024