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Fresh restrictions say the dogs must be kept on a lead and muzzled in public – with a new government ban set to come into force in February

Tom Wilkinson, the Oscar-nominated British actor known for his roles in “The Full Monty,” “Michael Clayton” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” has died at age 75, according to his family

Exclusive: Numbers killed double in just a year – fuelled by massive surge in post-Covid pet ownership

All three films in the trilogy went down disastrously with critics

Exclusive: Women hired as prison officers through a university graduate programme claim a boys’ club of male officers made their lives hell

Top gong comes despite The Independent revealing that the senior Tory used non-dom tax loophole

The Hong Kong media mogul, pro-democracy activist and British passport holder faces life in prison for publishing ‘seditious’ material in his now-closed Apple Daily newspaper, in charges trumped up by China. The Independent demands his release

The federal Supermax looms large in popular culture, housing the worst of the worst offenders in America – from El Chapo to terrorists and criminal masterminds. The people who live and work nearby in Colorado’s Florence and Fremont County tell Sheila Flynn what it’s like to live in the shadow…

The House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat has recruited a crop of young energetic freshmen to push back on the Republican investigation, Eric Garcia reports

About 600 people leave prison without accommodation every month

The Beer and Pub Association warns cost pressures could lead to closure of 750 pubs in the first half of 2024