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Four decades ago, three-year-old Lori Poland was abducted outside her home by a stranger offering her candy, before being raped and left to die in a toilet pit. She tells Andrea Blanco how the trauma still haunts her but also drives her to fight to help fellow child abuse survivors

Exclusive: More than a quarter of the most financially distressed constituencies are red wall seats held by the Conservatives, figures show

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Online personality and boxer complained that film about the creation of the atomic bomb was ‘just talking’

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External review into the Countess of Chester hospital – which has not yet been published – expected to find multiple failings, The Independent understands

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Lionesses are competing in England’s first World Cup final since 1966

Exclusive: Commission for Countering Extremism returns funds to government as sources say ‘no one knows’ what body does

Amy is one of what experts fear is a growing number of patients turned away from treatment as stretched services ‘ration’ help in an effort to manage demand. Health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reports

Former prisoner has told The Independent that Florida governor watched him be force-fed to such a degree that he was ‘bleeding and throwing up’