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England to ban ‘cruel’ dog training device after 10-year campaign

https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/04/28/16/newFile.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Update November 2025: while the government announced in 2023 its intention to introduce a ban…

London station ‘like last train out of Saigon’ amid Easter travel disruption

https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/04/07/15/07153604-4ca893f2-960f-4339-b90a-4f7a8ae486eb.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Rail passengers travelling for the Easter weekend have said boarding a train in London was…

21 people convicted in West Midlands child sex abuse investigation

https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/04/05/16/e83638abf6f0dd9e44983b2d48de75ecY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjgwNzk0MTU5-2.21314914.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Update June 2025: Tracey and David Baker successfully appealed against their convictions and were acquitted…

Iran protesters told they are ‘bringing down the patriarchy’

https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/01/08/18/8309d3b33bdf10b4c5e7d99eff5dd110Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjczMjg2NzAz-2.70488913.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Comedian Omid Djalili told Iranian protesters that they are “bringing down the patriarchy” at a…

Former boxer champion Wadi Camacho ‘cut ex-girlfriend while grabbing iPhone’

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/08/30/13/2a84503be30ade7e636aa4ca5db804c7Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjYxOTQ2NTIz-2.40977705.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Update, October 7, 2025: Mr Camacho was cleared on all four counts by a jury…

Oligarch ‘had already sold mansions’ before hit by UK sanctions

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/03/22/15/SEI92569214.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 A Russian businessman sanctioned by the British government earlier this month has said he had…

UK-based Russian-Ukrainian couple reunited with family at visa centre in Poland

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/03/16/08/16075929-61702d53-53ff-49c2-8f71-0f895ac00e7b.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 A Russian-Ukrainian couple broke down in tears when they were reunited with their one-year-old son…

UK-based Russian-Ukrainian couple reunited with family at visa centre in Poland

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/03/16/08/16075929-61702d53-53ff-49c2-8f71-0f895ac00e7b.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 A Russian-Ukrainian couple broke down in tears when they were reunited with their one-year-old son…

From George to Breonna to Eric: What happens to police officers who kill Black people

https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/04/21/22/GettyImages-1216203917.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 George Floyd’s death at the hands of police offices in Minneapolis last year sparked nationwide…

Coronavirus diary: I didn’t think any of it applied to me – but suddenly it did

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/03/22/17/central-london-5.jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 I was woken by the silence. That is when I should have known the world…