4+ week, 9+ hour ago (421+ words) This show is angering me tonight," say viewers Strictly Come Dancing fans have complained that George Clarke is being underscored by the show"s judges after he received his second week of low marks. The 25-year-old YouTube star, who had a promising start in the competition, was bottom of last week"s leaderboard with a mere 27 points after he failed to impress as Harry Styles for Icons Week. It was a similar story on Saturday night"s Halloween Week (1 November), which saw Clarke and his partner Alexis Warr receive a score of just 29 for their spooky Cha Cha to "Apple" by Charlie XCX. Viewers complained on X/Twitter that the judges had picked up on "every single one of George"s mistakes", while the viewing public "barely noticed". "Then they haven"t mentioned Vicky [Pattison] and Kai [Widdrington]"s visible mistake…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (396+ words) The cabin crew member resigned almost immediately after the incident A former United Airlines flight attendant was taken for treatmentafter consuming 10 times the legal alcohol limit on a flight, a court heard. Margit Lake, 56, was treated by paramedics at Heathrow after the Boeing 777 she was working on arrived from San Francisco on 17 October. The cabin crew member was later taken to the hospital. It is alleged that her blood alcohol level was 216mg, over 10 times the legal limit of 20mg to work on a plane. Appearing at Uxbridge Magistrates Court, Ms Lake was told by the prosecutor that her consumption of alcohol was an "obvious risk to herself and other passengers," The Sun reported. The California-based flight attendant was accused of drinking multiple miniature bottles that she had brought onto the aircraft ahead of the 10-hour flight. Ms Lake had a career…...

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7+ min ago (600+ words) The editor and media entrepeneur changed the landscape of British journalism over his decades-long career Andreas Whittam Smith, the former editor who co-founded The Independent and changed the landscape of British journalism over his decades-long career, has died aged 88. The pioneering editor died on Saturday, his family said in a statement. Whittam Smith was the early driving force behind The Independent, the broadsheet he launched in 1986 as an antidote to the entrenched partisanship of Fleet Street. Under his stewardship, the newspaper won a devoted readership with its commitment to neutrality, intellectual rigour, and clean, modern design, with clarity and depth chosen over sensationalism. He had worked in finance and public service, but it was in the media industry in particular where his influence will be keenly felt long after his death. He was knighted in 2015 for his services to the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (549+ words) The former England captain lends his support to The Independent's SafeCall appeal with the charity Missing People, launched to raise "165,000 for a new lifeline for the 70,000 children reported missing each year Sir David Beckham has joined The Independent's SafeCall campaign to support missing children, urging the public to donate to a new 24-hour service that will provide help and safety to young people in crisis. Posting to his 88 million Instagram followers, the former England captain wrote: "It's heartbreaking that 70,000 children go missing in the UK every year. I'm delighted to support The Independent and Missing People UK charity to help launch SafeCall, a new 24-hour lifeline for vulnerable and missing young people to find safety." The SafeCall campaign aims to raise "165,000 to fund a free, round-the-clock service designed with young people in mind. It will provide advice, guidance and a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1330+ words) Labour will need the Budget to have been well-received by swing voters in areas such as Sheerness and Kensington if the party is to stand a chance of holding onto power at the next general election. Dan Haygarth and Hebe Campbell spoke to locals to see if they were convinced Peter Cripps voted for Labour at the last general election because he was desperate to get rid of the Conservatives. But he wouldn't vote for the party again, not least after the chancellor's make-or-break Budget on Wednesday. As he sat outside his shop Car, Home and Garden in Sheerness on Kent's Isle of Sheepey, the 76-year-old told The Independent: "I've lived on the isle for 50 years, this is the worst I've ever known it and this Budget is not going to turn that around." Rachel Reeves outlined in her fiscal…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (349+ words) Editorial: Backed by Sir Stephen Fry, who himself disappeared 30 years ago, The Independent's Christmas appeal aims to raise "165,000 to help the 70,000 children and teenagers who go missing in the UK each year to find a way back to safety Editorial: Backed by Sir Stephen Fry, who himself disappeared 30 years ago, The Independent's Christmas appeal aims to raise "165,000 to help the 70,000 children and teenagers who go missing in the UK each year to find a way back to safety At least as important as celebrity support is the backing of the one-time missing children themselves. Jade Knight, now 23 and an ambassador for Missing People, credits the charity with saving her life, after she went missing more than 50 times as a child. SafeCall, she says, is designed to support anyone who feels they "just want to disappear. As our report acknowledges, not…...

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2+ min ago (754+ words) A risk-taking and highly principled journalist, Whittam Smith helped fund Britain's first new broadsheet newspaper in more than a century " before successfully stewarding the Church of England through the credit crunch. Sean O'Grady remembers him Andreas Whittam Smith was a gambler " and the biggest risk he ever took was launching The Independent. Admittedly, gambling is not the first thing that comes to mind when surveying his long and storied career " careers, in truth, such was the variety of roles he took up. In 1985, Whittam Smith " together with Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds, two younger and similarly risk-friendly journalists with whom he had worked at The Daily Telegraph " made an "all or nothing" move: to embark on the great adventure of conceiving, funding and producing the first new broadsheet in more than a century. He once told Charles Wintour, another distinguished…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (620+ words) Iqbal Mohamed's departure comes just one week after Adnan Hussain pulled out of the Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana-led project A second MP has quit Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's party to return to serving as an Independent MP, in yet another blow to the chaotic alliance. Iqbal Mohamed's departure comes just one week after Adnan Hussain said he was withdrawing from the "steering process" for the new Jeremy Corbyn-backed party, citing concerns about factionalism and "veiled prejudice" against Muslims. Your Party, which has yet to even adopt a formal name, has been riven by infighting and rifts almost since it was announced earlier this year. But the loss of another MP also comes at a difficult time, just a week before the party's first annual conference is due to get underway. At the event, in Liverpool, members are expected…...