Day: January 9, 2025
‘Hero’ security guard slashed with angle grinder while trying to stop bike thief
January 9, 2025A cafe worker has described how a ‘hero’ security guard was slashed with an angle grinder as he fought off a bicycle thief in east London. The shocking incident happened just before 3pm on Wednesday in Holywell Lane in Shoreditch, east London. Jaume Munte, 27, originally from Barcelona, was alerted to a thief trying to […]
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Caroline Dubois hoping to celebrate birthday with ‘nice little knockout’
January 9, 2025Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The […]
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Liverpool will not use Spurs’ contentious winner as motivation – Virgil van Dijk
January 9, 2025Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Virgil van Dijk insisted Liverpool would […]
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Frontline NHS staff ‘under same pressure as at height of COVID pandemic’
January 9, 2025A&E NHS staff are under the same pressure as they were “during the height of the pandemic”, a health chief has warned, as emergency departments have had their busiest year on record. NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis warned it was hard to quantify just “how tough it is for frontline staff at […]
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Grooming gangs are ‘in every single part of our country’, Jess Phillips says
January 9, 2025There are grooming gangs “in every single part of our country”, Jess Phillips has told Sky News. The safeguarding minister told Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast she was issuing an “open invitation” to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to meet victims with her. Ms Badenoch’s spokesperson said she has not met […]
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Wheelchair users trapped on train because staff ‘weren’t trained to use ramps’
January 9, 2025To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three wheelchair users were left ‘trapped’ on a train with no ramp to get off because platform staff said they were ‘not trained’ to use them. Letty Raby, 22, and two other wheelchair-using friends were expecting to […]
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Live tracker map shows where and when snow could hit UK today
January 9, 2025Gethin Hicks Published January 9, 2025 7:55am Updated January 9, 2025 9:12am There will be no let up in the bitter cold snap today, with temperatures forecast to plunge into the ‘negative double figures’. The Met Office has issued six separate yellow weather warnings as the UK looks set to be battered by blizzardy conditions […]
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Met Office issues four new weather warnings while freezing temperatures continue
January 9, 2025Britain’s gas storage levels have become ‘concerningly low,’ says the owner of British Gas as cold weather grips the UK. The UK’s gas storage sites are currently 26% lower than this time last year, ‘leaving them around half full.’ The issue has been caused by plummeting temperatures and the country’s high demand for gas-fired power […]
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