The Independent - November 02, 2024

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November 02, 2024

'Everyone in town knows someone who has died'

Residents in flood-stricken Paiporta just outside Valencia fear the death toll will excede 400 as the clean-up gets underway

3 mins

Reeves hit by backlash from health and care sectors over national insurance increase

Rachel Reeves is facing a growing backlash over her national insurance hike as GPs, care homes, dentists and hospices have called for an exemption from the charge.

4 mins

Is the reaction to national insurance hikes justified?

It should probably come as no surprise that what the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, once described as “a tax on jobs” has turned out to be... a tax on jobs.

3 mins

Farmers say they have been lied to over new 'tractor tax'

Environment secretary Steve Reed has hit back following a storm of criticism over the government's plans to extend inheritance tax to family farms, claiming the \"vast majority of farmers will not be affected at all\".

3 mins

Badenoch has a fatal flaw...

If she becomes Tory leader, she'll be well advised to abandon her unwinnable war with the media, says Andrew Grice

3 mins

BBC accused of pro-Israel bias by 100 of its own staff

More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to \"recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality\" over its reporting on Gaza.

4 mins

Hammer-wielding public schoolboy named by judge

A public schoolboy handed a life sentence for attacking two sleeping students and a teacher with claw hammers, while they slept at a Devon boarding school, has been named.

2 mins

Teenager jailed for life for murdering ex-girlfriend, 15

An obsessed ex-boyfriend who stabbed a 15-year-old girl 36 times in an alleyway after school has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years in prison.

3 mins

Not to be, that is the answer

Study explains why, contrary to popular opinion, monkeys will never be able to type the complete works of Shakespeare

2 mins

'I've never felt so concerned about the state of the world'

Security experts warn Rhian Lubin of a 'new world disorder' if Donald Trump re-enters the White House one that may threaten crucial Western alliances like Five Eyes and Aukus

9 mins

'Ultimate swing county' in dire need of vote counters

Almost 1 million mail-in ballots received in historic surge

2 mins

Teenager being shot in head sparks mass brawl in France

A 15-year-old boy has been left in critical condition after being shot in the head during a drive-by attack allegedly linked to drug trafficking in western France, local officials and media have reported, with hundreds of people caught in a subsequent latenight brawl.

2 mins

Relax, chancellor... lettuce is definitely off the menu

Borrowing rates have risen in the aftermath of Rachel Reeves's Budget, hitting a one-year high in the bond market and prompting strained comparisons with the mini-Budget in September two years ago which ended former prime minister Liz Truss's political career.

3 mins

Reeves hasn't supplied the material to build up Britain

Potholes and schools have their place, says Chris Blackhurst. But where were the big ideas to shake off our national gloom?

4 mins

Amorim enters the theatre of dangerous assumptions

In February, newly furnished with a 27.7 per cent stake in Manchester United but some £1.3bn poorer, Sir Jim Ratcliffe outlined the ethos that he hoped would end 11 years of “complete misery” and take his club to back “where it should be”.

4 mins

Van Nistelrooy keen to give new man a welcoming gift

There is no doubting when Ruud Van Nistelrooy accepted the offer to become one of Erik ten Hag's assistants at Manchester United, he had his eyes on the big job.

3 mins

Back to Blacks: game's top brand in search of its sheen

For New Zealand, these have been weeks of a sort of national nirvana.

5 mins

'ITV's last Tour will be a moment of great sadness'

Four decades of free-to-air Tour de France coverage in the UK coming to an end was a shocker, Ned Boulting, the voice of ITV's long-running broadcasts, tells Lawrence Ostlere

4 mins

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