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Over 80,000 of the young people collecting GCSE results on Thursday will be dyslexic. If the trend of recent years continues, their chance of getting a good pass in their English language and maths will be just half of that of their peers. Despite being just …

A 17-year-old had been charged with the murder of a "devoted father" who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver outside a Greggs in Newcastle. Peter Duncan was stabbed once in the chest in an unprovoked attack in the Intu Eldon Square shopping centre at aro…

What would you hate most a Corbyn government or a no-deal Brexit? That, Im told, is how Downing Street is already framing the crucial question for Conservative MPs. Government whips will ram home the same message when the Commons returns from its summer brea…

A man was killed when he was hit by a lorry on amotorway in Merseyside. The M53 in Wirral was closed in both directions, causing severe traffic logjams, after police rushed to the scene just before 11am. Some drivers tried to jump the queues by driving on t…

A woman was killed by her ex-boyfriend after reporting his abuse to police 18 times before her death, it has emerged. Laura Stuart was subjected to escalating distress, isolation and humiliation in the two years leading up to her death, an independent report…

The first death came at 1.15pm and was an infant, aged just two years old. Exactly 200 years ago on Friday, little William Fildes was being carried through a Manchester street by his mother Ann when, from around a corner, a troop of horse-back yeomanry appea…

Image copyrightAlamyImage caption Have Didcot's concrete towers blighted or complimented the beautiful landscape around them? Beautiful to some, a blot on the countryside to others, Didcot Power Station's monumental cooling towers have dominated the landsc…

Jeremy Corbyn has played Labours opening hand to begin negotiations with those opposed to Boris Johnsons no-deal strategy. Everyone it seems, except Jo Swinson and the Liberal Democrats, is prepared to meet and begin negotiations. Clive Lewis MP explains why …

The Home Office building has been cordoned off by armed police amid reports of a stabbing. The Independent understands that a victim is thought to have been stabbed or slashed near the government department's headquarters in Marsham Street, Westminster. The…

Sir Lenny Henry and model Adwoa Aboah are among a group of artists and MPs calling for a greater focus on creative subjects in schools.  A letter to education secretary Gavin Williamson hopes to reverse the drop in pupils taking up the arts by calling for a …