A white British national was arrested on Friday afternoon after the ex-Tory minister was found dead at her Devon home

Officers were called to Widdecombe's home shortly after midday on Thursday, where she was found dead

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One British man said he barely escaped the neighbourhood by using back roads to get out

Ann Widdecombe moved to Haytor Vale to get away from it all, setting herself up ‘for the rest of my days’. But as an outspoken celebrity politician, she was somewhat of an anomaly in village life, as Jacqui Merrington found out

Temperatures have already rocketed past 35C this week in UK’s longest heatwave since 1976

Everyone should be ‘mindful of their water use’ amid the heatwave, an Environment Agency chief has said

Mr Farage is facing scrutiny over a £5m gift from a crypto billionaire and a £1m donation from convicted fraudster George Cottrell’s mother

Should England winning the World Cup earn the country a bank holiday — or is it an unnecessary cost, as Kemi Badenoch suggests?

SNP say the policy is costing businesses in Scotland around £1,000 per employee

Rupert Edwards, 33, was jailed for raping a female police officer

Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, 45, was arrested in Kensington, Johannesburg

Adam Boulton has been urged to retract the ‘vile remarks’ that he made about the former Tory minister

Firefighters were called to a blaze near Stratford Station on Friday evening

Police are not treating the incident as terrorism, after the Reform spokesperson was reportedly found covered in blood with serious head injuries at her home

Ramzi Barkat, 54, tailed the lone woman out of St James’s Park in the early hours of September 7 2024, Southwark Crown Court heard

In the trailer Joe Marler and co-host Jake Bhardwaj chant ‘duke, duke, duke’ as Harry arrives on the show

As Count Binface prepares to take on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election, Independent readers share their verdict on the man behind the bin – and whether he could actually pull off an upseT

Count Binface has emerged as Nigel Farage’s main contender for Clacton MP ahead of the constituency’s controversial by-election

Anthony McGrath, 57, posted on X threatening to bomb Greater Manchester Police headquarters

A manhunt has been launched for a white male believed to be responsible, Devon and Cornwall Police said

Detectives plan to talk to Sky and Amanda Roberts about Guiffre’s claims of sexual assault by former prince

Ann Widdecombe defended Nigel Farage’s re-election bid in Clacton as “the right course to take” in her final TV interview just a day before her death at the age of 78.

With weight-loss pills now available in the UK, experts have warned the public on how to detect counterfeit versions of the drug

Watch live as police hold a press conference on Friday (10 July) after the death of former MP Ann Widdecombe .

Some 33 per cent of British adults would prefer Count Binface to win, while only 21 per cent back the Reform UK leader

While the trial was ongoing, Murad Merali had approached members of the actor’s family outside court

Andy Burnham's proposal to fix the UK's dire economic situation is to devolve and cosy up to Europe – but the solution may lie elsewhere, argues Helen MacNamara. Reported by Maja Anushka

The star, 28, denied assaulting the woman in his friend’s car in 2023

PM-in-waiting apologises for Labour’s response to violence in Gaza, saying they ‘didn’t get it right’

The pardon relieves some of the burden felt by Ruth Ellis’s family, writes Lizzie Seal

The Ministry of Justice has been urged to fix issues with the system ahead of a rise in demand in September as the early release plan comes in

Retired forklift driver Colin Timson, 74, died after falling ill while on holiday in the west African country

Some 73% of Britons think the Reform UK leader is sleazy, as police probe donations to the party made by the mother of convicted fraudster George Cottrell

Andy Burnham has promised “growth in every postcode”. It is a big, attractive political line – the sort of thing voters want to hear after years of feeling poorer, public services feeling stretched, and wages struggling to keep up with the cost...

Anthony Littler was ambushed and left for dead as he walked home down a narrow alleyway from East Finchley Tube station

The vocal Brexit campaigner also appeared on Strictly and Celebrity Big Brother

The siblings now face losing their childhood home over the dispute

Kemi Badenoch accuses Farage of ‘fake by-election’ as independent parties left to take the Reform leader on

The US-based forum is refusing to pay more than £520,000 in fines to Ofcom over alleged breaches of the Online Safety Act. Its argument? Simple – it isn’t the UK’s jurisdiction. Nicole Wootton-Cane takes a look at what action Ofcom could take,...

A previous inquest was told England’s 1966 World Cup winning team had now been ‘pretty much wiped out’ by neurodegenerative disease

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy hints PM-in-waiting could borrow billions for defence

The prayer was widely mocked online

The 1,000-year-old artwork was spirited across the Channel Tunnel in a police-guarded truck

A "violent abuser" from Rochester who locked his victim in a room and would only let her out after making her bark like a dog tried to escape justice by hiding in a fridge.

The area is popular with tourists, with the nearby beach regularly attracting thousands of people

The BBC radio show superfan recorded her lines in secret

As Nigel Farage accuses his opponents of ‘running away’ from an election, and the main parties say his attempt to distract from scrutiny of his finances has descended into farce, chief political commentator John Rentoul is here to answer your que...