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The chef was diagnosed with bipolar earlier this year

A PERSON has died after being hit by a train on a Glasgow railway line...

A PERSON has been hit by a train on a Glasgow railway line...

Farming leaders are urging Labour ministers to rethink plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1m

Alexander Rogers’s body was recovered from the River Thames in January

Marc Conway, who helped tackle a terrorist wearing a fake suicide vest, has backed The Independent’s campaign for all IPP prisoners to have their sentences reviewed

MPs and farmers have attacked the government’s decision to extend inheritance tax to family farms

Farmers are getting increasingly angry about the controversial plan to impose inheritance tax on many family farms as an MP warns that it will add to a severe mental health crisis in the sector

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Josh Mcrae missed 17 Christmases with his mother Theresa, who has gifts for every year he was jailed

Exclusive: Psychological drama to tour around the UK, to try to start lifesaving conversations among students, parents and universities