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Is the dollar store doomed? Local backlash and rising inflation are putting the brakes on explosive nationwide growth

Dollar stores have spread exponentially in recent years to more than 35,000 locations across the country, but many communities are fighting back after seeing local businesses destroyed by them, write Richard Hall and Alicja Hagopian

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Life inside Essex’s ‘prison-like’ asylum seeker site Wethersfield

Exclusive: Residents at the Wethersfield asylum site in Essex speak to Holly Bancroft about the mental health crisis unfolding inside

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‘Scottish Swifties party hard’: Taylor Swift kicks off the UK leg of her Eras Tour in Edinburgh

The Independent spoke to fans who had journeyed from as far as Texas and Toronto for Taylor’s first UK Eras tour show

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Family sues pet sitters after beloved dog, Queenie, drowns in pool while they were away on vacation

‘I feel like I almost have a moral obligation to get the word out,’ dog owner Rebecca Duke said

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Last sighting of missing TV doctor Michael Mosley as divers search water around Greek island

‘We have 40C outside so it’s easy to get dizzy’ says daughter of island’s mayor as search continues

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Outrage as ‘tidal wave’ of sewage floods historic market town’s unique chalk river continuously for months

Exclusive: Water firm pumps sewage into river Misbourne, Amersham on 21 ‘dry days’ during nearly five month period

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NFL star Xavien Howard accused of sending ‘revenge porn’ to victim’s minor son after she refused an abortion

The former Miami Dolphins player was cut from his $90m contract in March

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Furious veterans say Rishi Sunak’s apology for skipping D-Day event ‘doesn’t scratch the surface’

‘If he was allowed to leave at exactly 3.05pm he would be leaving at 3.05pm’, former Royal Marine says

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Tory election chaos as more candidates quit in lead up to nominations deadline

At least five people on the Conservative’s candidates list have told The Independent that they refused to stand for unwinnable seats, but Neighbours star Holly Valance won’t stand against the party for Nigel Farage’s Reform

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Keir Starmer heading for 10 years in power, new poll says

Exclusive: Redfield and Wilton poll for The Independent also finds that Tory supporters want Nigel Farage to suceed Rishi Sunak as party leader

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Police hunt masked man after nails glued to playground in Oxfordshire village for second time

Mystery surrounds Marcham village as someone keeps sticking sharp needles to children’s play equipment

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New poll reveals ‘Farage effect’ on the general election

Nigel Farage may have had milk shake thrown in his face at his launch to win Clacton but a new poll has revealed he has changed the general election

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‘We are all concerned’ Locals say mother who abandoned three babies needs support

Plaistow locals react in shock as baby siblings abandoned over a half-mile stretch of east London seven years apart turn out to be related

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Two British judges quit top Hong Kong court amid pro-China crackdown on dissent

It comes after a report by The Independent detailing the judges being paid £40,000 to sit on the court for up to a month at a time

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So did Trump’s guilty verdict really change minds?

Trump’s lead against Biden has dropped two points

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General election: Nation divided over Sunak’s ‘£2,000 tax rise under Labour’ claim, poll shows

Exclusive: A poll for The Independent by Redfield and Wilton shows that a greater number of voters think Sunak was not telling the truth than those who say he was - but only by a narrow margin

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Rowdy British stag-do guests in wigs hauled off Tenerife ‘flight from hell’ by police

Group said they ‘were going for it’ and allegedly snuck alcohol aboard the easyJet flight, passengers said

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Fatboy Slim explains why he can’t stop returning to Glastonbury Festival

Exclusive: He’s come a long way, baby. The superstar DJ has performed at Worthy Farm more than any other artist, and now reveals why it entices him back each year

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Boeing worker told Senators they had nightmares of planes ‘falling out of the sky’ and begged for safety fixes

Exclusive: In an anonymous letter sent to a Senate Committee the individual alleged that workers were ‘pressured’ to sign off on safety inspections that had not been completed

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Latest Boeing whistleblower predicts ‘other things hiding in the bushes’ at beleaguered aircraft manufacturer

Exclusive: The former quality investigator tells The Independent that the company is ‘infested with ‘yes-men and bean-counters’ and should be ‘torn down and rebuilt’ in order for progress to made

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‘EasyJet made a fool of me – and then refused to admit passport mistake’

Exclusive: Passenger wrongly denied boarding says ‘for seven weeks easyJet continued to repeatedly blame me for their mistake’

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Non-binary Saudi influencer denied asylum in UK because officials ‘don’t believe they are really LGBT+’

Ali Saad Muthyib, 26, says they were forced to flee the represssive Middle Eastern monarchy after repeatedly being harassed and abused by police officers

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Democrats’ contraception play to put Republicans on record

Republicans are right that it was a messaging vote. They just know their message doesn’t resonate.

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Dems rip Kevin McCarthy’s about-face on Biden’s mental fitness

Republicans are looking to revive questions about Biden’s abilities after Trump is convicted on 34 felony counts

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Democrats back Republicans into a corner and shine light on extremist stances on contraception

Only two Republican senators agreed to bring the Right to Contraception Act to a vote

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