The Independent - December 22, 2024

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December 22, 2024

Pensioners face delays for vital winter fuel payments

Pensioners are facing waits of more than 100 days to secure their winter fuel payment as Labour reforms put a major strain on the Department for Work and Pensions.

4 mins

Royals 'front and centre' in PM's plan to charm Trump

The King and the Prince of Wales are to be \"front and centre\" of a charm offensive on Donald Trump as Sir Keir Starmer attempts to bypass Nigel Farage and repair the damaged relationship with the president-elect and his team.

4 mins

Trump 'gave permission' for absolute moron' comment

Donald Trump \"gave permission\" to his former campaign coordinator to publicly insult Sir Keir Starmer's choice for the UK's new ambassador to the US, according to sources close to the president-elect.

3 mins

Families launch legal action over school fees VAT raid

Six families have launched a legal challenge against the government's plan to impose VAT on private schools, claiming it is discriminatory against certain pupils.

2 mins

Aung San Suu Kyi's son in plea for her prison release

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old's health in the country's \"terrible\" prisons.

2 mins

Streeting urged to review sale of abortion pills by post

The health secretary has been warned that a recent conviction over the use of abortion pills to poison a woman \"could be the tip of the iceberg\" unless safeguards are brought into place.

2 mins

Flights and ferries cancelled during Christmas getaway

Flights and ferries were cancelled yesterday because of bad weather, disrupting the Chirstmas travel plans of thousands of people.

3 mins

‘My face was still bruised when they laid me off’

Women whose careers were destroyed by domestic abuse even after escaping partners say employers must do more

4 mins

Lockerbie silence 36 years on is labelled 'pretty fishy'

The father of a Lockerbie bombing victim has urged Sir Keir Starmer to publish everything the UK knows about the tragedy.

2 mins

Children born thanks to IVF pioneer find biological father is scientist at his lab

Questions have been raised about one of the UK's most wellknown fertility doctors after two people whose parents attended his clinic reportedly made the shock discovery that their biological father is a lab scientist who worked in the same hospital as the physician.

2 mins

'Good vibes': winter solstice is celebrated at Stonehenge.

Thousands gathered at Stonehenge yesterday as they greeted the sun with cheers and applause to mark the winter solstice.

1 min

Germany mourns as death toll from market attack rises

Saudi doctor held after car ploughs into crowd at Christmas event, leaving five people dead and dezens more sala

2 mins

Christmas market atrocity will further divide the West

Does terrorism work? It depends what the aim of the perpetrator is and in the case of Friday night's Magdeburg Christmas market attack it's not as clear cut as it may have seemed in the immediate aftermath.

3 mins

'I feared I'd end up in the trench like the other bodies'

Reporting from the site of a mass grave around 25 miles from the Syrian capital, Bel Trew speaks to a man who dug out the trenches before realising the horror of what was happening

6 mins

Pope warns Vatican staff on gossiping and backstabbing

Pope Francis used his annual Christmas greetings to tell Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another, warning that gossip is an \"evil\".

1 min

How the malicious Grinch bots’ are stealing Christmas

When my brother-in-law tried to buy a Barbie gymnast as a Christmas present for my daughter last week, the doll kept disappearing from every online store he visited.

2 mins

Resigned Guardiola signals City's complete breakdown

An obsessive Spanish manager had taken his adopted club to rare heights.

4 mins

Jesus punishes Palace to reignite Arsenal title fight

Gabriel Jesus’s first-half brace fired Arsenal to an emphatic 5-1 win against Crystal Palace to take them within three points of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League.

3 mins

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