THE INDEPENDENT

The chancellor’s address is set to come after weeks of expectation management and growing reports of planned tax rises as she scrambles to fill a black hole of up to £50bn in the public finances

Many households have struggled with the rising cost-of-living

It was not just takeaway meals that made the top 10 deliveries list

Traditionally, people sought to buy a property that they could live in for decades

Conservative peer Baroness Bertin warned that there has been a ‘total absence of government scrutiny’ of the pornography industry

Lord Mandelson was sacked as UK ambassador to the US due to his connection to the paedophile financier

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh says he is ‘broken’ and suffers constant flashbacks

Eleven people were injured during a mass attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday

Police are investigating whether man accused of horror attack on London-bound train was also behind stabbing of teenager in Peterborough and terrifying ordeal at a barber’s shop

Temperatures this week could reach highs of 17C

Donald Trump described the royal family scandal as ‘too bad’

Study sheds light on why dark chocolate works black magic on the mind

Exclusive: Almost 700 health workers and LGBT+ rights campaigners from 40 countries write to prime minister amid deep cuts to overseas aid

Soumaya Hamdi said that her husband Sami’s detention in ‘overcrowded’ conditions in the US set a ‘terrifying precedent’

Reform UK leader also predicted a general election within the next two years, as a consequence of Rachel Reeves’s ‘austerity Budget’

Penny Mordaunt speaks to The Independent about her new book – and her hopes of a return to Westminster

Ofsted is preparing to implement its new report card system next week

Nigel Farage has claimed that lower-paid workers are “better off” if they claim that they have anxiety.

Cancer-related chemicals have been detected in the untreated ‘raw water sources’ used by seven UK water firms

Belinda Zakrzewska, Flavia Cardoso and Maria-Carolina Zanette look at how the request for a vegan menu was not appreciated by the Amazonian chef tasked with making it

The charges arise out of a series of posts made in January and March last year on social media site X

The Conservative leader said keeping donors on side ‘actually took quite a lot of my time’

Barrel jellyfish have been on a significant rise with a 230 per cent increase in sightings compared to last year

Scunthorpe United’s Jonathan Gjoshe suffered non-life-threatening injuries following the attack and remains in hospital

Barry Relph claims he was protecting a multimillionaire couple’s tennis court from defecating birds

A 32-year-old man charged with 10 counts of attempted murder in connection with Cambridgeshire incident

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The girl passed away after she was transfered to a hospital in the UK for treatment. Two people have been arrested

Not all benefit claimants will be eligible for the one-off payment

The child was pronounced dead at the scene

The 19-year-old had been accused of smuggling marijuana and hashish in her hold luggage

The Office for Budget Responsibility is expected to downgrade the UK’s performance on productivity at the Budget

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The baby was pronounced dead at the scene and the dog was seized and removed from the property