The former England captain lends his support to The Independent’s SafeCall appeal with the charity Missing People, launched to raise £165,000 for a new lifeline for the 70,000 children reported missing each year

Concern around the Labour leadership has deepened ahead of Rachel Reeves’s Budget on 26 November

At 15, Chereece Bateson was missing almost every day while living in care. Now 24, she tells Tara Cobham why she’s helping to build a new service designed to stop other children from falling through the cracks

US president Donald Trump has given BBC until Friday to respond to his lawsuit threat

Aysel Gencay has lost a court battle over her mother’s will

Tony Blair’s former director of communications intervention comes as the PM comes under pressure to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

Ofcom fined Royal Mail £21m last month after millions of letters arrived late across the UK

The commentator was detained at a California airport on 26 October

From being greeted with a punch to having bones broken by the very people who were supposed to be keeping them safe, survivors have laid bare the reality of life inside Medomsley

Aurora borealis will be visible for the second night in a row, the Met Office has said

Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has attacked the BBC licence fee , arguing the mandatory payment "criminalises people who want to watch television."

A-list actors will give readings at the service

Fraudsters are using software to steal tens of thousands of pounds

The NSPCC described the figures, which show an almost doubling of such crimes over the past eight years, as "deeply alarming"

With Christmas just around the corner, here are the foods to be careful consuming alongside medication this festive season

A new study has warned that without intervention, ADHD education could cause many young people to wrongly diagnose themselves

Robert Edmiston said thoughts of moving were motivated by reasons including family and a warmer climate

The solar storm has already begun to impact the British Geological Survey’s satellites

Correspondence suggests former ambassador to Washington warned paedophile he should stay away from the then-Prince Andrew

A lorry driver's claim that a coughing fit caused him to drift onto the wrong side of the road and crash head-on into another HGV was exposed due to his dashcam audio.

PM declines to back his right hand man after ‘epic own goal’ over coup plot rumours

Convicted paedophile also claimed Buckingham Palace would ‘love it’ if Ms Giuffre was ‘proven to be a liar’

DiCaprio was pictured sitting near former US speaker Nancy Pelosi and founder of the World Central Kitchen charity, Jose Andres

A burglar was found hiding in a bin after he broke into an optician's in Nottingham on 5 November.

Katie Fox died from her injuries days after the attack

The Location, Location, Location presenter told a committee she believed the tax is ‘damaging’ housing stock

One board member, Sir Robbie Gibb, faced sharp criticism in the Commons on Wednesday

DWP urges pensioners to discard any scam messages asking them to apply for payments

Investigation finds ‘the silence of many’ allowed widespread physical and sexual abuse to continue at Medomsley Detention Centre for decades – as watchdog says victims deserve public apology

She earned herself a peerage for her campaigning in 2010

There are several ways that a sitting prime minister can be removed

Sir Keir Starmer has shut down Rupert Lowe’s recommendation that the death penalty be reintroduced for foreign criminals.

Goodall filmed an interview which she understood would be released after her death

A “Crypto queen” fraudster who masterminded a scam that led UK police to seize more than £5.5bn in Bitcoin was arrested in bed, police bodycam video shows.

Laura Anne Jones made an offensive remark about Chinese people in a WhatsApp group

Rein Lively was a member of the controversial QAnon movement which accused global elites of carrying out child sex crimes

New evidence has come to light, the work and pensions secretary says

As The Independent launches its campaign with Missing People, we hear from Tim Widden, a forensic artist who has spent the last 10 years making age progression images to help bring missing people home

Weather warnings have been issued across the UK as unsettled weather is expected to continue

Sir Keir Starmer urged the BBC to “get its house in order” following Donald Trump’s threat to sue the corporation for $1billion lawsuit.

Health secretary denied threatening to challenge embattled PM and denounced ‘Downing Street culture’

Secretly filmed video showed him walking ‘normally’ before the operation

Charity warns it is facing ‘unprecedented need’ for services amid rising pet ownership, as well as rising cost of living

Health bosses are warning this winter could see the ‘most severe flu outbreak in decades’

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (12 November).

They are charged with more than 40 offences against 11 teenage victims

The National Cyber Security Centre warned last month that Chinese and Russian hackers posed a ‘significant threat’ as serious online attacks reached a record high

Keir Starmer appears to be in so much trouble holding on as Labour leader and PM that Downing Street had to warn his potential successors. Political editor David Maddox looks at who could replace him

Income tax, pensions, the cash ISA and more could all be set for notable alterations

Alice Figueiredo’s mother has criticised staff for ‘indifference, ignorance, even at times cruelty’

Researchers from the University of Exeter have found that the tone of your voice may be enough to scare a seagull away

Britain's Health Secretary Wes Streeting has denied plotting to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer