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Harriet Agerholm

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Harriet Agerholm is a news reporter and also The Independent's Grenfell Correspondent

Crime

Man denies ripping off woman's hijab on tube platform

Culture

Wildlife photo of the year 'of a stuffed anteater'

Related video: Ivanka Trump 'greeted with half empty-room' while giving Tokyo speech on women's empowerment
Americas

Indian diplomat likens Ivanka Trump to 'half-wit Saudi prince'

Theresa May during a visit to the Jaguar Land Rover factory. Leaked recordings revealed the Prime Minister warned companies would leave the UK if the country voted for Brexit
UK Politics

Leaked recordings reveal Theresa May’s pro-EU stance ahead of Brexit

The McCann's were among four victims of press intrusion who brought a judicial review against the government’s move
Home News

Leveson 2 inquiry will not go ahead after victims lose legal battle

A video shows a 15-year-old boy being grabbed by the neck and thrown to the floor, at a school in Huddersfield last month
Home News

‘Toxic environment‘ fuelling rise in attacks on refugees in UK

Home News

High Court to rule on whether Leveson 2 should go ahead

Signs for Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei are displayed in a store selling mobile phones in Beijing on August 3, 2015
Tech

New Zealand blocks Chinese firm Huawei over national security fears

Svein Ledvigsen, a former fisheries minister, was charged with taking advantage of his position as a regional governor
Europe

Former Norwegian minister charged with sexually abusing asylum seekers

Firefighters refill their water from a tanker in Deepwater National Park on Wednesday
Australasia

Thousands of Australians told to flee 'catastrophic' fires

Geoffrey Hutton denied murdering the 49-year-old
Crime

Debt collector stabbed to death by man after calling at home

Watchdog investigates how police forces record crimes
Crime

Police warn of dangerous cocaine batch after man dies at party

Samuel Thomas was killed when Islam accelerated and he fell into the path of the vehicle
Australasia

Uber driver responsible for British man killed by bus in Australia

Australasia

Uber driver responsible for British man killed by bus in Australia

Samuel Thomas was killed when Islam accelerated and he fell into the path of the vehicle
Police warned the public not to approach Wayne Jones
Crime

Rapist arrested after escape from open prison in Lincolnshire

Asia

Turkish military helicopter crashes in residential area of Istanbul

Firemen on a balcony outside one of the burned out flats at Lakanal House in London, following a fire that killed six people on 4 July 2009
Home News

No sprinklers in 96% of council high-rises in London, research finds

Dominic Loyen (centre, in blue) seconds before his fatal jump
Europe

Celebrated base jumper dies after parachute fails to open

Dominic Loyen (centre, in blue) seconds before his fatal jump
Europe

Celebrated base jumper dies after parachute fails to open

Matthew Hedges with his wife Daniela Tejada
Middle East

UAE considering clemency for UK man jailed for life on spying charge

Matthew Hedges with his wife Daniela Tejada
Middle East

Jailed British academic in UAE having panic attacks

Man pulls teenager into a dark blue van parked in Elgar Way, police say
Crime

Milton Keynes schoolgirl kidnapped by man in van

People who travel on two wheels are 63 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured (KSI) than car drivers, according to new research from road safety charity Brake
Home News

Government orders crackdown on dangerous drivers

Traffic drives through rain and spray on the M5 motorway on near Weston-Super-Mare, England
Home News

Temperatures to rise before torrential downpours soak Britain

The court heard Sharife Elouahabi made fraudulent claims for around £103,000 of financial assistance and accommodation between June 23 last year and June 25 this year
Crime

Man who claimed £100,000 meant for Grenfell survivors jailed

Cecylia Roszak died on Friday in the Dominican convent in the city of Krakow, Poland
Europe

Polish nun who helped hide Jewish children from Nazis dies aged 110

A spout forms over a body of water, but quickly dissipates over land
Europe

Huge waterspout forms off coast of southern Italy

The court heard Sharife Elouahabi made fraudulent claims for around £103,000 of financial assistance and accommodation between June 23 last year and June 25 this year
Crime

Man who claimed £100,000 meant for Grenfell survivors jailed

Cecylia Roszak died on Friday in the Dominican convent in the city of Krakow, Poland
Europe

Polish nun who helped hide Jewish children from Nazis dies aged 110

A spout forms over a body of water, but quickly dissipates over land
Europe

Huge waterspout forms off coast of southern Italy

David Earl Miller is scheduled to be executed on 6 December
Americas

Death row inmate given five days to decide how he wants to be executed

Americas

Death row inmate given five days to decide how he wants to be executed

David Earl Miller is scheduled to be executed on 6 December
Kenneth Macharia has lived in the UK since 2009
Home News

Rugby team urges Home Office to stop gay teammate being deported

A general view shows the Volcano of Fire erupting as seen from San Juan Alotenango, outside of Guatemala City, Guatemala November 19, 2018.
Americas

Volcano of Fire eruption sends boiling rock flying almost two miles

Worboys, who was convicted of 19 assaults on 12 women in 2008
Crime

Black cab rapist must remain in prison after losing parole review

Amber Rudd backed Universal Credit soon after her return to the cabinet, saying she had seen it 'transform lives'
UK Politics

Amber Rudd becomes sixth DWP secretary in less than three years

Amber Rudd backed Universal Credit soon after her return to the cabinet, saying she had seen it 'transform lives'
UK Politics

Amber Rudd becomes sixth DWP secretary in less than three years

Force accused of sharing data with other bodies without providing sufficient guidance on how it should be used
Crime

Met 'gangs matrix' breached data protection laws, says probe

Composite of undated handout images issued by the National Crime Agency of (top row left to right) Iqlak Yousaf, Nabeel Kurshid and Asif Ali. (bottom row left to right) Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, Salah Ahmed El-Hakam and Tanweer Hussain Ali, who have been convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in Rotherham
Crime

Rotherham child sex grooming gang sentenced to 101 years in prison

Mark David Chapman will next be eligible for parole in 2020.
Americas

John Lennon's killer feels 'more and more shame' every year

Canada Goose coats range in price from about £275 to £1,400
Education

School bans designer coats to stop ‘poverty shaming’

Cuban doctors observe a procedure at a health clinic in Brasilia, Brazil
Americas

Cuba to pull doctors out of Brazil after election of far-right leader

Michael Avenatti was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the unnamed official said
Americas

Stormy Daniels lawyer arrested on suspicion of domestic violence

Hashem Abedi, brother of the Manchester attacker, Salman Abedi, has been detained in Tripoli for alleged links to Isis
Africa

Manchester bomber's brother 'will be extradited this year'

Man tackled by a soldier and a police officer on train travelling from Lille to Montpellier
Europe

Man detained after trying to set fire to himself with wine

Asia

Briton tourist spared Thai jail after spraying 'Scouser Lee' onto gate

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine speaks alongside a display of those arrested during a news conference
Americas

Family charged with murders of eight people on marijuana farm

Tiger bone and rhino horn are highly valued in Chinese medicines, despite no proof of their effectiveness
News

China makes u-turn on legalising the sale of rhino and tiger parts

News

China makes u-turn on legalising the sale of rhino and tiger parts

Tiger bone and rhino horn are highly valued in Chinese medicines, despite no proof of their effectiveness
Health workers treat an unconfirmed Ebola patient, inside a treatment centre on November 3, 2018 in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Africa

Ebola outbreak will last at least another six months, WHO chief warns

Middle East

Jeremy Hunt says 'rapid progress' made in finding Khashoggi killers

Aung San Suu Kyi
Asia

Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of human rights award

Sean Warman, 27, was arrested in Bungay in Sussex on Sunday morning
Crime

Marked police van stolen from outside Suffolk police station

Sean Warman, 27, was arrested in Bungay in Sussex on Sunday morning
Crime

Marked police van stolen from outside Suffolk police station

Crime

Man sent bomb to firm 'because staff refused to change his password'

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz (left) and defence minister Mario Kunasek (right) give a press conference in Vienna,
Europe

Austria arrests former army colonel on suspicion of spying for Russia

Theresa May, lays a wreath at an Armistice remembrance service at St Margaret's Church, in London, November 6, 2018
Home News

Theresa May to mark Armistice centenary with Emmanuel Macron

Footage of the incident apparent shows Mr Acosta appearing to brush the intern's arm as she reached for the microphone
US politics

CNN's Jim Acosta receives widespread backing after Trump ban

Europe

Poland bans far-right march on country's independence day

Home News

Grenfell survivor tells how she found escape route by chance

Europe

Matteo Salvini says he is 'sad but content' after break-up

Crime

Grenfell Tower survivor group responds to arrests over model bonfire

US President Donald Trump greets talk show host Sean Hannity at a Make America Great Again rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 5, 2018
Midterms 2018

Sean Hannity 'U-turns on promise not to campaign for Donald Trump'

The Chhans have been running the Seal Beach outlet for the past 28 years
Americas

Customers buy up doughnuts so shop owner can spend time with ill wife

Middle East

Yemen fighting around key port kills 150 over weekend

Middle East

Yemen fighting around key port kills 150 over weekend

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (left) toasts with Central African Republic's President Faustin Archange Touadera on November 2, 2018 in Bangui
Africa

France to give assault rifles and cash to Central African Republic

Police activity outside Clapham South tube station after Malcolm Mide-Madariola was fatally stabbed on Friday 2 November
Crime

Teenage victim of deadly London stabbing named by police

The bravery and perseverance of Bibi, her family, and her legal team should not be overshadowed
Asia

Asia Bibi's husband pleads for family asylum in UK

The last time a large scale US political event was hit by extreme weather was in 2008, when a “Super Tuesday” outbreak left 75 people dead as voters in 24 states headed to the polls in caucuses and primaries for a presidential election
US politics

Tornado forecast before midterms poll 'could play big role' on voting

The last time a large scale US political event was hit by extreme weather was in 2008, when a “Super Tuesday” outbreak left 75 people dead as voters in 24 states headed to the polls in caucuses and primaries for a presidential election
US politics

Tornado forecast before midterms poll 'could play big role' on voting

The poppies were to be taken from a Royal British Legion club in Kingstanding to Aston Villa’s stadium
Home News

Taxi driver sacked over 'refusing to transport poppies'

MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the government for maintaining arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition, which is fighting the rebels in Yemen
UK Politics

Iran-backed rebels caused Yemen crisis, says UK-arms committee chief

Driver told wheelchair user he could get on the bus, but said to the other passengers: 'Wait for the next one'
Europe

Bus driver kicks passengers off for not making space for wheelchair

Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles perform on stage during the "On the Run II" tour opener at Principality Stadium on June 6, 2018 in Cardiff, Wales.
Americas

Missouri nurse fired after posing as Beyonce in blackface costume

The Grenfell Tower fire began in the early hours of Wednesday, 14 June 2017, and took over two days to fully extinguish
Home News

Man trapped in Grenfell Tower 'told his sister-in-law he was at work'

The Tory leader of the council carried out media interviews after the blaze, including one in which he blamed residents for a lack of sprinklers
Home News

Grenfell resident closed blinds to stop children seeing people jumping

Lawyers representing those who survived the disaster and relatives of the deceased accused the probe of showing 'complete disregard' for their clients
Home News

Father found out his son had died in Grenfell Tower from news report

Lenci, a 15 years old male lion, rests on his cage before animal welfare activists remove him from a private zoo in Albania
Europe

Three lions among animals rescued from 'shocking' Albanian zoo

Far-right terrorist Darren Osborne was jailed for life after ploughing a van into Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park, killing one victim and injuring several others
Home News

MI5 agents to take lead in fight against far-right extremism

Senior officials said the package was similar to explosives discovered at George Soros' residence earlier this week, both located in the same county.
US politics

Hillary Clinton hints at running against Donald Trump in 2020 election

German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel speaks to the media
Europe

Angela Merkel says she will step down as German chancellor in 2021

The baby, named Finn Paul Davidson, weighed 10lb 1.5oz
Home News

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson gives birth to baby boy

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill gives both private and social tenants the power to take their landlords to court if their home is unsafe (file photo)
UK Politics

Tenants granted new powers to hold rogue landlords to account

Delsie Gayle speaks out after suffering racist abuse on a Ryanair flight
News

Pensioner rejects apology from Ryanair passenger after racist tirade

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with human rights activist Nadia Murad during a meeting at the Elysee palace in Paris
Europe

France pledges to take in 100 Yazidi women

The Eurasian beaver is the largest rodent in Europe, weighing up to 30kg
Europe

Couple escape death after beaver topples 20m-high tree onto yacht

Delsie Gayle speaks out after suffering racist abuse on a Ryanair flight
News

Pensioner rejects apology from Ryanair passenger after racist tirade

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with human rights activist Nadia Murad during a meeting at the Elysee palace in Paris
Europe

France pledges to take in 100 Yazidi women

The Eurasian beaver is the largest rodent in Europe, weighing up to 30kg
Europe

Couple escape death after beaver topples 20m-high tree onto yacht

Snow expected to blanket Scotland
Home News

Arctic blast to sweep UK bringing sub-zero temperatures

Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
Home News

Government must look into legalising cannabis, says ex-Met chief

Home News

Ryanair vows to ban racially offensive passengers

The man filmed racially abusing the elderly woman remains unidentified
Home News

Ryanair faces boycott for not removing racially abusive man from plane

The government has revealed no intent to compel private schools to share facilities
Education

Private schools 'must let state school pupils use their pools'

Well, is it? Anti-Brexit campaigners, like Steve Bray, will be protesting today in central London to try and change the course of a story
UK Politics

People's Vote route as over 100,000 people call for second poll

Demonstrators with banners during the People's Vote 'March for the Future' in London
LiveUK Politics

'Over 700,000 protesters' call for second Brexit referendum

Home News

Grenfell Tower survivor describes final goodbye to father

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