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Lamiat Sabin

Lamiat is a Freelance online news reporter at The Independent

<p>Part of Holland Park School before its demolition and refurbishment was completed in 2012</p>
Comment

I went to the UK's 'School of Jihadis', and I can't believe how it has

<p>Health experts have urged parents to get their children vaccinated against measles</p>
Health

Five measles symptoms to watch out for as experts warn of outbreak

<p>Police have launched a murder investigation</p>
Crime

Two teenagers found stabbed to death a mile apart in London

<p>Molly Russell was a 14-year-old girl from north London who ended her own life after viewing self-harm content online </p>
Home News

Online self-harm content to be made illegal after Molly Russell death

<p>Vladimir Makei addressing the UN in September 2022, one month before his reported death </p>
Europe

Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei ‘suddenly dies’ aged 64

<p>Greater Manchester Police are appealing for information and dashcam footage </p>
Crime

Police hunt man over three attempted kidnaps in Greater Manchester

<p>Police said the incident was non-terror-related </p>
Crime

Three arrested after car drives into crowded Cheshire Christmas market

<p>Police have found ‘potentially hazardous substances’ on a body in Kilburn Drive, Shevington</p>
Crime

Mystery surrounds powder found on ‘smouldering’ body found in Wigan

<p>King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, and former charity chief executive Michael Fawcett in Scotland</p>
Home News

CPS passed file on ‘cash-for-honours scandal’ involving King’s charity

<p>Sir Keir Starmer with deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner (right) and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (left)</p>
UK Politics

Keir Starmer pledges to ‘abolish the House of Lords’ as prime minister

<p>Prime minister Rishi Sunak speaks to reporters on the flight to Bali for the G20 summit </p>
UK Politics

Rishi Sunak reportedly puts a stop to ministers’ daily broadcast round

<p>Fire blazes after a Russian rocket hit an electric power station in Kharkiv</p>
Europe

Ukrainians asked to leave the country to ease burden on energy network

<p>At least six have been killed in the blast</p>
Europe

Woman may be involved in Istanbul ‘terror attack’, says Turkey

Europe

Woman may be involved in Istanbul ‘terror attack’, says Turkey

<p>At least six have been killed in the blast</p>
<p>The men were found in Houghton Regis in the early hours of Sunday</p>
Crime

Two men killed and third wounded in Houghton Regis stabbing

<p>PM Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt </p>
UK news

Jeremy Hunt plans £35bn spending cut amid recession warning

<p>Rishi Sunak is expected to raise the migrant crisis with his French counterpart when the two meet in Egypt today (Jonathan Brady/PA)</p>
Home News

Millions of benefit claimants could get £1,500 if appeal succeeds

<p>The Cricketers Inn in Meopham, near Gravesend in Kent, where the incident took place </p>
Crime

Murder probe begins after man killed and second wounded at village pub

<p>The Cricketers Inn in Meopham, near Gravesend in Kent, where the incident took place </p>
Crime

Murder probe begins after man killed and second wounded at village pub

<p>Police at the scene of fireworks being set off by teenagers in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on 5 November 2022</p>
Home News

Boy, 17, dies after fireworks ‘hurled’ down street on Bonfire Night

<p>Luke O’Connor, who dreamed of travelling the world, has died in hospital after being stabbed </p>
Crime

Teenager charged with murder of Manchester student Luke O’Connor

<p>Police at the scene on Railton Road following the death of two men</p>
Crime

Brixton shooting: Two men dead after gunfire on south London street

<p>People with suitcases and bags are seen leaving the Foxconn compound in Zhengzhou</p>
China

Workers flee Covid lockdown at Apple iPhone factory in China

<p>Yves-Francois Blanchet wanted to cut ties with the monarchy </p>
Americas

Canadian MP vote to cut ties with ‘racist’ British monarchy fails

<p>One of the six newly discovered species of rain frog in Ecuador – called ‘Pristimantis resistance’</p>
Americas

Six new frog species found with one named in honour of slain activist

<p>The Astora natural gas depot in Rehden, Germany. It’s the largest natural gas storage in western Europe</p>
World

European gas prices plunge to lowest since June

<p>E-liquids, or ‘vape juices’, come in many flavours – either with nicotine or without </p>
UK news

Vaping can disrupt heart’s rhythm, ‘highly concerning’ study suggests

<p>One of the six newly discovered species of rain frog in Ecuador – called ‘Pristimantis resistance’</p>
Americas

Six new frog species found with one named in honour of slain activist

<p>The Astora natural gas depot in Rehden, Germany. It’s the largest natural gas storage in western Europe</p>
World

European gas prices plunge to lowest since June

<p>E-liquids, or ‘vape juices’, come in many flavours – either with nicotine or without </p>
UK news

Vaping can disrupt heart’s rhythm, ‘highly concerning’ study suggests

<p>Commuters at Waterloo station </p>
Home News

Thousands of rail workers to take strike action for week in November

Home News

Thousands of rail workers to take strike action for week in November

<p>Commuters at Waterloo station </p>
<p>File photo dated 09/07/21 of an aerial view of the City of London skyline (Victoria Jones/PA)</p>
Business News

Businesses call on Sunak to ‘end uncertainty’ amid market rally

<p>King Charles III, when he was the Prince of Wales, with Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy at a British Asian Trust reception in February 2022 </p>
UK Politics

Rishi Sunak to become PM on Tuesday morning after audience with King

<p>Krishnan Guru-Murthy</p>
UK Politics

Krishnan Guru-Murthy apologises for calling Steve Baker ‘a c***’

UK Politics

Tory MPs ‘bullied and manhandled’ in chaotic fracking vote

UK Politics

Tory MPs ‘bullied and manhandled’ in chaotic fracking vote

<p>The moment when a protester was dragged into the Chinese consulate</p>
Home News

Diplomat defends grabbing Hong Kong activist’s hair in Manchester

<p>Michael Gove and Liz Truss </p>
UK news

Michael Gove: ‘No longer question of if Liz Truss goes, but when’

<p>108 Ukrainian prisoners of war freed on Monday 17 October 2022</p>
Europe

More than 100 Ukrainian women freed in prisoner swap with Russia

<p>More than half of fraud-related crimes are carried out with internet-based technologies, statistics show </p>
Home News

Police failing to deal with rising fraud ‘epidemic’, report finds

<p>TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady </p>
UK Politics

UK workers facing ‘decades of lost living standards’, union boss warns

<p>MoneySavingExpert founder and journalist Martin Lewis </p>
Home News

Martin Lewis calls for hike to benefits after Hunt rips up mini-Budget

<p>Smoke rising out of Evin prison in Tehran </p>
Middle East

Four inmates killed and 61 injured in Iran prison fire after unrest

<p>CCTV footage showing a man police are looking for in connection to a rape</p>
Crime

New CCTV appeal in hunt for Bristol rapist year after unsolved attack

<p>Doctors inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda</p>
Africa

Uganda announces three-week Ebola lockdown and curfew in two areas

<p>Odesa City Council employee pastes plain posters over Elon Musk’s face after he tweeted his suggestions for peace between Ukraine and Russia </p>
Europe

Elon Musk taken off Ukraine posters that thank westerners for support

<p>Gaia Pope-Sutherland was found dead 11 days after she went missing in November 2017 </p>
Crime

Gaia Pope-Sutherland’s family accuse police of lying to inquest jury

Crime

Gaia Pope-Sutherland’s family accuse police of lying to inquest jury

<p>Gaia Pope-Sutherland was found dead 11 days after she went missing in November 2017 </p>
<p>Flight LS922 from Dalaman, Turkey, to Manchester diverted to Stansted over suspected bomb threat</p>
Home News

RAF fighter jets escort Jet2 passenger plane after ‘bomb threat’

<p>Julian Knight said the project was an ‘excessive waste of money’ </p>
UK news

Public spending watchdog to investigate £120m ‘festival of Brexit’

<p>A driver walks near his burned car after a Russian military strike in Kyiv</p>
Europe

UK spy chief: Russians starting to see Putin misjudged Ukraine war

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves </p>
UK Politics

Labour to pile pressure on government to ‘reverse disastrous budget’

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves </p>
UK Politics

Labour to pile pressure on government to ‘reverse disastrous budget’

<p>Birchington Avenue, outside St Hilda’s Church, in Teesside </p>
Crime

Murder probe launched after cyclist, 22, dies following collision

<p>Firefighters attempt to put out a fire in a residential building damaged by a missile strike in Zaporizhzhia</p>
Europe

‘Absolute evil’ Russian airstrike on Zaporizhzhia kills 17

<p>All 10 of those killed in the blast have now been named </p>
Europe

Girl, 5, and two teens among 10 dead in petrol station explosion

<p>A protester shows red paint in her face, resembling blood splatters and bloody handprints next to the national Iranian emblem</p>
Middle East

‘At least 185 people including 19 children killed’ amid Iran protests

<p>Jessica Lawson was 12 when she drowned on a school trip near Limoges, France </p>
Crime

British teachers found not guilty over death of girl on trip to France

<p>Asian hornet next the size of an ‘elongated basketball’ found in a back garden in Rayleigh, Essex</p>
Independent Premium

Basketball-sized Asian hornet nest in garden taken to government lab

<p>Forecourts are accused of not passing savings on wholesale cost of petrol to motorists </p>
Home News

Drivers ‘denied’ 10p petrol price cut as ‘profit margins increased’

<p>David Haye arrives at Westminster Magistrates’ Court </p>
Crime

Former boxing champion David Haye cleared of assault

<p>Club Nexis in Mansfield, where police said a man had part of his ear bitten off in an attack</p>
Crime

Man, 42, has part of ear bitten off in nightclub attack

<p>Merseyside Police on Silvester Street where the 60-year-old woman was killed by dogs</p>
Home News

Woman, 60, dies after being mauled by dogs at Liverpool house

<p>The junction of Earls Lane and Waterman Court in Slough, where the attack happened </p>
Crime

Murder probe after man knocked off bike and attacked by gang dies

Crime

Murder probe after man knocked off bike and attacked by gang dies

<p>The junction of Earls Lane and Waterman Court in Slough, where the attack happened </p>
<p>The man, from South East England, collapsed between mile 23 and 24 </p>
Home News

London Marathon runner dies after collapsing during race

<p>Banners with the faces of Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva </p>
Americas

Brazil elections: Bolsonaro seeks re-election against rival Lula

<p>The richest 1 per cent of people are responsible for almost a quarter of emissions, the report claims </p>
Independent Premium

Wealthiest to blame for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions – study

<p>Walt Disney World’s Wilderness Lodge</p>
News & Advice

These Florida locals booked into Disney World during Hurricane Ian

<p>Walt Disney World’s Wilderness Lodge</p>
News & Advice

These Florida locals booked into Disney World during Hurricane Ian

<p>Holidaymakers are being advised to look for bargains before splashing their cash </p>
News & Advice

Spain holidays cost ‘£500 more on average than last year’

<p>The Northern Lights in Mount Kirkjufell, in the west of Iceland</p>
News & Advice

Northern Lights tops list of UK travellers’ dream bucket list sights

<p>Marisa Rodrigues has been a flight attendant for 18 years</p>
News & Advice

Flight attendant saves life of passenger whose ‘heart stopped’ mid-air

<p>Electric Plane First Flight</p>
News & Advice

First electric ‘commuter plane’ takes maiden flight

<p>Southeastern’s decision to reorder the timetable was made without public consultation </p>
News & Advice

Southeastern to run ‘simpler’ timetable due to drop in commuters

<p>Artist’s impression of what the new Barcelona-Sants station will look like</p>
News & Advice

Barcelona main station to get spectacular green upgrade

<p>British Airways says the aircraft had ‘landed safely’ in Athens [file photo] </p>
News & Advice

‘Terrifying’: Emergency landing after windshield of BA plane ‘broke’

<p>An American Airlines plane at Miami airport [file photo] </p>
News & Advice

Woman handcuffed on AA flight after shouting ‘We’re all going to die’

<p>Bond Street station on London’s Elizabeth line will open on Monday October 24, Transport for London has announced (TfL/PA)</p>
News & Advice

Elizabeth Line station at Bond Street to finally open next month

<p>Michelle Visage (centre) with others modelling the Virgin Atlantic uniform options</p>
News & Advice

Virgin Atlantic allows staff to wear gender-free uniforms

<p>The hoax bomb threat was made on board a Singapore Airlines flight from the US</p>
News & Advice

Fighter jets accompany Singapore Airlines flight after bomb hoax

<p>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer </p>
UK news

Labour surges to largest poll lead over Tories in more than 20 years

<p>Edward Fitzalan-Howard, the 18th Duke of Norfolk, ran through a red light while on his phone </p>
Crime

Queen’s funeral organiser banned from driving for using phone at wheel

<p>Halifax is one of three mortgage lenders that have temporarily pulled some of their products for new customers </p>
Home News

Lenders pull mortgage products amid volatile market after pound falls

<p>The RAF has been accused of prioritising diversity within its ranks over national security </p>
Home News

MoD admits RAF ‘made mistakes’ during diversity recruitment drive

News & Advice

Timelapse shows planes leaving Russia in mass exodus amid conscription

<p>Halifax is one of three mortgage lenders that have temporarily pulled some of their products for new customers </p>
Home News

Lenders pull mortgage products amid volatile market after pound falls

<p>The RAF has been accused of prioritising diversity within its ranks over national security </p>
Home News

MoD admits RAF ‘made mistakes’ during diversity recruitment drive

News & Advice

Timelapse shows planes leaving Russia in mass exodus amid conscription

<p>The 38 is one route set to be affected by the planned open-ended strike action </p>
News & Advice

London bus routes to be hit by ‘indefinite’ strike from October

<p>The unappetising dish was served on a Ryanair flight from Vienna to Bristol </p>
News & Advice

Ryanair passenger slams ‘saddest’ lasagne ever served on budget flight

<p>Qantas passengers are not happy with the lack of vegetarian food options on board </p>
News & Advice

Qantas under fire for not offering vegetarian meals on short flights

<p>The skyline of Porto from across the Douro River</p>
News & Advice

Portugal introduces new visa targeted at digital nomads

<p>Jennie Berry said staff refused to help her and ‘just proceeded to keep serving the drinks’ </p>
News & Advice

Paralysed woman drags herself up plane aisle to use toilet on flight

<p>Climate protesters paste subversive advert on a billboard in Brighton</p>
News & Advice

Airline adverts ‘hacked’ across Europe in climate protest

<p>Two single mattresses in the open-plan living room and kitchen serve as some of the beds and seating</p>
News & Advice

Cornwall Airbnb charges guests £50 a night to ‘camp without the tent’

<p>Ryanair confirmed that ‘a small number of passengers became disruptive’ and had to be removed </p>
News & Advice

Flight diverted after ‘wild and very drunk passenger urinates on seat’

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