Letby plans to launch fresh appeal with new legal team

Child serial killer Lucy Letby is planning to launch a third appeal with a new legal team, her barrister has revealed.

Kyle denies humiliating TV guest who died days later

Unaired clip shows host telling Steve Dymond, grow a pair’

Co-leader of Greens denies wind farm pylons hypocrisy

The co-leader of the Green Party has defended himself after the Labour government tried to portray him as a hypocrite on clean energy infrastructure.

Can Greens mature while staying true to their roots?

With four MPs and 7 per cent of the vote, the Green Party scored a record performance in July’s general election – and as the party begins its England and Wales conference in Manchester, there is much for it to look forward to.

Prisoners could serve their sentences in Estonian jails

Prisoners in the UK could serve their sentences in Estonia as the Labour government explores ways to offset chronic overcrowding.

Labour scraps plan to hold asylum seekers on RAF site

Labour has scrapped plans to house asylum seekers at RAF Scampton, weeks after it dumped the Conservative government’s Rwanda deportation scheme.

Grenfell families tell Met to bring charges without delay

Survivors fear they won’t live to see justice being served

Team GB's 'kings of clay' reach doubles final in Paris

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid can empathise with that quote available in every tacky souvenir shop here - that Paris is always a good idea.

How Sancho wound up as United's fifth-choice winger

There was something sadly fitting about the way it ended.

Dynamite Draper reaches first grand slam semi-final

Jack Draper further announced himself as the new star of British tennis by reaching the US Open semi-finals.

SETTLING SCORES

Revival of Stoppard's 1982 play 'The Real Thing' finds the writer at his brilliant but infuriating best, says Alice Saville

Just as bleak and formally daring as its predecessor

The hugely anticipated 'Joker: Folie à Deux' rejects comic book conventions and stars a stirring Joaquin Phoenix and a cruel and highly feline Lady Gaga, says Geoffrey Macnab

DAFT AND DERIVATIVE

Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber lead an unhappy family in Nantucket-set 'The Perfect Couple'. What may been biting satire is paint-by-numbers Netflix pulp, writes Nick Hilton

A painstaking study that's both gripping and moving

Featuring revealing interviews with Ukraine's president and his wife Olena, 'The Zelensky Story' is a sensitive look at the leader's rise and his tireless optimism, writes Sean O'Grady

'The press infantilised me like I was this innocent girl'

With her album up for a Mercury Prize, Corinne Bailey Rae tells Annabel Nugent about the influence behind it, shaking off her easy listening era and remembering Amy Winehouse

When did Nicole Kidman become the sad wife of TV?

In recent years, the award-winning actor has forged a new career playing wealthy women who are weighed down by cashmere scarves and troubled pasts, says Katie Rosseinsky

Should we book our flights now or heed agents' advice?

Q My family and I are looking to go to the US in July 2026. We want to fly to New York City for three nights, then spend 10 nights in Orlando and three nights on the Florida coast in Clearwater before flying home.

EGO OVERLOAD

Elon Musk says 'aneuro-typical' people should be in charge of the world, but Eleanor Mills argues in an age of soft power and empathy, high-status males are the least capable leaders

Pope kicks off Indonesia visit in ordinary family car

Pope Francis began his extensive 12-day tour of four Asian countries on a humble note by opting to use a family car and ditching a luxury hotel stay as he arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia for the first leg.

Indian villages terrorised by pack of man-eating wolves

At least 10 children have been killed in attacks since March

Netanyahu offering 'forever war', opposition party warns

Benjamin Netanyahu's government is offering Israel a war \"with no end date\" as long as it is in power, the country's opposition leader has warned.

Zelensky's reshuffle aims to project strength ahead of a tough winter for Ukraine

Dmytro Kuleba is one of Ukraine's most recognisable faces to Western officials, seemingly never afraid to speak his mind.

Russian strike on Lviv kills mother and three daughters

Zelensky carries out biggest government shake-up since the start of the war as Moscow's deadly aerial assault continues

Water bosses face prison.over UK sewage dumping

Water bosses are to be told today that new laws will mean they face prison if they continue to pump filth into Britain’s lakes and rivers.

Kyle guest called show '40 or 50 times' to appear on it

A man believed to have killed himself after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show called the programme “40 or 50 times” in a desperate attempt to go on, the inquest into his death has heard.

Labour to spend £15m on small boat deportation deals

The Home Office is spending £15m on returns partnerships with 11 countries to boost the number of deportations of small boat migrants, The Independent can reveal.

Patel is out - what's next in the Tory leadership contest?

With the lowest number of votes from fellow MPs – 14 out of 121 – Priti Patel has automatically dropped out of the running to be Tory leader.

As a Grenfell campaigner, this report has me seething

After more than seven years campaigning for Grenfell victims and survivors, my former Kensington constituents, and the countless others who are still living in unsafe homes up and down the country, I did not think it was possible to feel more anger than I already did.

Justice for Grenfell: the fight is only just beginning

Seven years after the fire which resulted in the avoidable deaths of 72 residents, Zoë Beaty speaks to the grieving relatives who feel their voices are still not being heard

'We must acknowledge part we played in tragedy' - May

Baroness Theresa May, who was prime minister at the time of the Grenfell Tower fire, has warned that all those in authority must accept their responsibility for the tragedy.