Brian Charrington, the infamous ‘Teflon Don’, was also known as the ‘Wikipedia Narco’ in Spain as he updated and corrected his own listing on the online encyclopedia Charrington seen with Curtis Warren(Image:... Read more »

Police have admitted escorting pro-migrant activists to the Epping asylum hotel where their encounter with anti-migrant protesters sparked violence. Footage of the force helping the counter-demonstrators from a nearby station to the... Read more »

Black Sabbath have paid tribute to their former frontman Ozzy Osbourne after the megastar died at the age of 76. Osbourne’s death on Tuesday morning was announced in a statement, which said... Read more »

Recap: Ozzy Osbourne, prince of darkness and Black Sabbath frontman, dies aged 76 Read The Independent’s obituary of Prince of Darkness and Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, who has died at the... Read more »

London and the UK’s leading status in the global financial system is “fragile”, the boss of Goldman Sachs has warned, as the government grapples with a tough economy. Speaking ahead of a... Read more »

Tony Blair’s government altered the rules on party leaders laying wreaths at the Cenotaph to keep unionists onboard with Northern Ireland’s peace process, newly released files show. The decision was taken in... Read more »

It started with sewage. Few environmental crises evoke such visceral public anger as pumping poo into waterways, but for years, that is exactly what water companies in England and Wales have done... Read more »

Elections are imperfect reflections of public sentiment. But they are the least worst means to distribute political power. Each vote does count, however unsatisfactorily, under Westminster’s electoral system – except when people are... Read more »

Welcome to “a new golden age” for nuclear power, said Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, as he signed off the £38bn (if we’re lucky) Sizewell C mega-plant in Suffolk. It will certainly... Read more »