FOR many Brits, tuberculosis (TB) may sound like a disease that died out with the Victorian slums. It’s remembered as the ...

A mum noticed that her four-year-old son has started walking with a strange gait - her concerns were initially dismissed by ...

AS we move into a new month, we turn back the dial to remember York of yesteryear with 10 old photos. How many scenes do you recognise?

If you aren’t a history buff, unlikely that you’ve heard of the UK-trained barrister, freedom fighter, Vithalbhai Patel, who passed away in Geneva, aged 60, in 1933. The nation went into deep mourning ...

A worried mother who took her four-year-old son to their GP after becoming alarmed by a number of unusual symptoms, including a "weird" way of walking, was told he was merely seeking "attention".

A UK council has sparked fury by announcing plans to replace historic Victorian lampposts with "clumsy and crude" alternatives. Reform UK-run Kent County Council is planning to gradually reduce ...

Local monitors at Britain’s newest £400 million ‘super prison’, HMP Millsike, have written to ministers to raise the alarm ...

Hundreds of black leather boots that appear to be from the 19th century have washed up on a beach, mystifying residents of a seaside village in southern Wales. Volunteers have been finding the shoes ...

Residents are furious over a council's plans to rip up a city's 'beautiful' Victorian lampposts and replace them with 'ugly' modern ones rather than maintain them. The heritage lampposts of Canterbury ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Conservation groups are fighting council plans to pull down Canterbury’s Victorian-era street lamps and replace them with ‘generic’ alternatives Residents and heritage lobby groups are organising ...