A has been charged with raping two 14-year-old girls in a flat in Bolton.

British officials said they were hopeful a deal would be agreed to unlock the value of immobilised Russian sovereign assets in the coming days

HMRC suggest 3.3 million people will be impacted by the salary sacrifice changes

Prime minister has insisted Labour will not break its election pledge not to rejoin the customs union

The train design will gradually be rolled out across a number of publicly owned train operators

Santander and Nationwide have both dropped rates again in a bid to spark up property moves

Lee Gibson placed at least 20,000 individual bets in six years, which is more than five per day

Children affected by serious violence were even more likely to seek help online

Alexander Loxton suffered a career-wrecking ankle ligament injury during a stop-and-search

Homes and businesses likely to be flooded and roads cut off by high waters in parts of UK, Met Office says

British consumers have been left concerned by uncertainty around the Budget, high inflation and the cost of living

Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay are being sued over claims they profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the United States in 2021 and 2023

Announcement that Girlguiding will only allow those recorded female at birth to join could see mass departures

Metropolitan Police Commissioner said rules around e-bikes are clear and ‘pretty tough’

Players helped make the plan to launch SafeCall possible – The Independent’s campaign with charity Missing People to set up a lifeline specifically for young people in crisis

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

The tennis coach said PE should be as much as a priority as numeracy and literacy

Christmas lights are often powered by lithium-ion batteries which, when placed in everyday rubbish bins, can get crushed in bin lorries or at waste sites, sparking dangerous fires

Platforms including Debenhams and eBay were found to be selling products with up to six times the legal limit of these harmful chemicals

Lord Dannatt will be barred from the Lords for four months while Lord Evans of Watford will be suspended for five months

Foreign secretary issues stark warning over Russian president ‘flooding’ Europe with cyber attacks and urges the UK and EU to band together – as Starmer holds crisis talks with EU leaders over Ukraine’s future

The scheme is designed to help disabled benefit claimants get cars through the welfare system

Labour peer Lord West of Spithead said the silent service was in its worst condition across his 60 years of military service

Leading charities including Mind and Samaritans say they are ‘deeply concerned’ by proposed guidance

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp says the British public expects immigration laws to be properly enforced

Rewilding plan will make Dagenham the UK’s second stork reintroduction site

Man to be quizzed on suspicion of robbery and assault, and woman on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery, after 21 people hurt at Heathrow airport

Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both aged 17, face possible deportation and were ordered to register as sex offenders

Joshua Michals, from Chicago in the US, and Chinese national Zhe Wang had an on-and-off relationship in London that ended in murder, a trial heard

The celebrity baker and his wife acquired the Ashford farmhouse for £810,000 in 2019

A prisoner was discovered hiding in a loft after escaping with a hoax bail letter.

Jesus Lato Garzon was described as a ‘much-loved son, family member and friend’

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The award-winning grime artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, failed to stop after his BMW hit Yubin Tamang in north-east London

Benjamin Guilfoyle was employed at The Loyne Specialist School in Lancaster when the incident took place

Both Labour and the Conservatives said Nigel Farage had questions to answer over the allegations, with the Reform leader being urged to ‘come clean’

The former Premier League footballer was convicted in November

Downing Street said ‘security mitigations’ were in place to operate the account

Shipping containers full of bananas and other fruit washed up on a UK beach after falling overboard from a cargo ship.

The incident, which unfolded opposite the check-in area for Terminal 3, is believed to have been triggered by an argument between people who knew each other

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Volodymyr Zelensky to Downing Street as European leaders meet in London for crunch Ukraine talks.

Santander UK says £49,846.32 was reported as being stolen by beauty scammers

The 68-year-old has been accused of committing offences against seven women as young as 17 years old

It comes amid growing concern about the direction of the government and devastating approval ratings less than two years after Labour’s historic landslide election victory

Amanda Redman has backed The Independent’s SafeCall campaign, which aims to raise £165,000 to support the 70,000 children who go missing every year in the UK.

Tributes poured in for the ‘Charlton legend’ and 35-year season ticket holder

Passengers faced severe disruption at the major transport hub

One retired NHS worker said he felt ‘stuck in limbo’ to see a specialist for his back and hip pains