THE INDEPENDENT

Another child is fighting for their life in hospital

Disposable vapes will be banned from the shelves of all shops from Sunday in a bid to cut their use among young people

Police say cause of deaths on 21 and 26 May still being investigated

Maytrix Group Limited, owned by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin, is in increasing debt

A boy was pulled alive from the river but police and coastguard officers have suspended the search for a missing girl

Paul Doyle set to attend plea hearing in August and given provisional trial date in November

Georgian police have detained a second top opposition leader within days, as protests continue in the South Caucasus country against the ruling Georgian Dream party

The government confirmed a £10.5bn loss to taxpayers since the bank was rescued

Officials say Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire, and Cumbria and Lancashire are in drought status

More than 800 reports of physical incidents were made by TfL staff over the past year

The mother of a jailed British-Egyptian activist has been hospitalised after resuming a hunger strike to campaign for his release.

Frustration and sympathy collide as readers debate potential NHS strikes, with one noting that ‘a good carpenter can out earn most doctors’

The US state department says court orders against anti-abortion activists in the UK, who were punished for protesting outside clinics, represent a ‘suppression of religious freedoms ‘

Kyle Enos bought DNP – a poisonous industrial chemical – from the dark web

The latest Electoral Calculus forecast shows Nigel Farage would have a 74-seat majority if an election were held tomorrow

Exclusive: Calculations for The Independent reveal the richest tenth of the population would gain almost four times as much as the poorest 10 per cent from Reform’s tax plans

Following one of the darkest days in Liverpool’s recent history, Alex Ross speaks to one of the first emergency workers to get to the scene of the crash in Water Street

Eric Jordan says the experience has ruined his home and left him unable to ‘trust anyone’

About 300 pesticides are used in cotton production globally and roughly a third of these are toxic

The 21-year-old is raising money for the Ben Raemers foundation, a mental health charity which was set up in memory of the professional skateboarder

Malcolm Weale, 53, says he knew the ring was ‘very special’ and ‘did a bit of a dance’ when he discovered it

Nearly 30,000 people were killed or severely injured from January to December 2024 in Britain, DfT estimates show

The paramedic also kissed the student on her cheek during the incident

Comedian and actor set to stand trial next year

Researchers say study of insects in Sussex first to find plastics ‘consistently turning up across an entire community of land invertebrates’

Previous pranks have seen a welcome sign for Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire relocated more than 60 miles away

Tests are currently being carried out to determine if environmental factors played a part in the two deaths

Two inmates convicted after killing 31-year-old Mahir Abdulrahman at new Serco prison in Leicestershire

Party chairman Zia Yusuf suggested the cut could generate up to £1 billion for the Treasury over a decade.

Assisted by a Russian interpreter, Motin confirmed his identity

Dog has been captured and is being held by the police

The ring was commissioned to commemorate George IV’s sister and dates back to the 19th century

Robert Jenrick has released a video of himself confronting alleged fare dodgers on the London Underground, as he claimed lawbreakers are “chipping away at society”.

This is the moment a thief used wheelie bins to steal £3,000 worth of Footlocker items after breaking into a store in Nottingham in the early hours of 13 May.

The 53-year-old appeared in court for the first time to face charges on Friday