Category: UK
Starmer’s shambles in No 10 risks handing power to Farage, Alastair Campbell warns
Intervention by Tony Blair’s former director of communications comes as the PM is under pressure to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
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Sir David Beckham backs The Independent’s SafeCall campaign to help missing children
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
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Storm Claudia map: Met Office issues amber weather warnings with dozens of flood alerts in place
More than 50 flood warnings and alerts can were issued on Wednesday as the UK braces for more heavy rain
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Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother ‘should never have been trusted’ with her care, review finds
Urfan Sharif’s history of domestic abuse was ‘overlooked and underestimated’ by all professionals who came into contact with the family
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Labour leadership latest: Starmer must find and ‘get rid’ of aide behind Streeting coup briefings, Miliband warns
Concern around the Labour leadership has deepened ahead of Rachel Reeves’s Budget on 26 November
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‘Fever pitch’ screaming and father’s history of violence: The red flags before Sara Sharif’s tragic death
Neighbours and Sara’s teachers had raised concerns, while social services were aware of Urfan Sharif’s alleged history of domestic violence
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Sara Sharif: How one trial laid bare the brutally short life of a 10-year-old schoolgirl
From one abusive household, to foster care to the home where she would die – the 10-year-old never stood a chance against her controlling and tyrannical father
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Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
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‘I lived in a toxic household – I went missing 27 times in a month and was barely eating’
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
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BBC-Trump crisis live: Broadcaster ‘set to apologise’ to president as $1bn legal threat deadline looms
US president Donald Trump has given BBC until Friday to respond to his lawsuit threat
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