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Andy Gregory

Freelance news reporter

Andy Gregory has been a freelance news reporter with The Independent since 2019, having previously written for publications including The Scotsman, Guardian and i newspaper. He is particularly interested in reporting on social affairs, drug policy, politics, the climate crisis and world affairs – in the form of news stories, liveblogs and longer investigations.

Crime

Girl, 13, charged with attempted murder after Wales school stabbing

<p>Without a consistent plan for aid, Kyiv will find itself in a critical position once again </p>
LiveEurope

Kyiv to ‘step up long-range missile strikes’ on Putin’s forces

<p>Princess Beatrice arrives at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018</p>
Americas

Princess Beatrice’s ex-boyfriend Paolo Liuzzo dies in Miami hotel

<p>Three people have been injured in an incident in Ysgol Dyffryn Aman</p>
Crime

Girl arrested over ‘attempted murder’ as three stabbed at Welsh school

<p>The girl was reported missing on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge </p>
Crime

Man charged with kidnap and sexual assault after girl, 9, goes missing

<p>Lee Anderson joined Reform UK after being suspended from the Tories </p>
UK Politics

Lee Anderson mocked for mistake in bizarre St George’s Day post

UK Politics

Sunak bizarrely blocks Nato chief from answering reporter’s question

<p>Andrew Neil prepares to broadcast from a studio during the launch event for GB News</p>
Media

Andrew Neil ‘didn’t want GB News to be outlet for bizarre conspiracy’

<p>Harrods said staff had helped police with an incident outside their store on Monday afternoon </p>
Crime

Man arrested over suspected kidnap of girl, 9, outside Harrods

<p>FILE: Royal Exchange building in the City of London </p>
Home News

FTSE 100 closes at record high as pound tumbles against US dollar

<p>(House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Rwanda Bill: How did my MP vote on Sunak’s asylum legislation?

Home News

The £16.2m bill to send prison staff around the country to plug gaps

<p>Feeling depressed doesn’t mean you can’t work, Sunak says in welfare reform speech.</p>
UK Politics

Rishi Sunak’s plan to cut sickness benefits prompts charity fury

UK Politics

Rishi Sunak’s plan to cut sickness benefits prompts charity fury

<p>Feeling depressed doesn’t mean you can’t work, Sunak says in welfare reform speech.</p>
Health

Sick notes: The figures behind the PM’s ‘crackdown’

<p>Rishi Sunak has warned against “over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life”</p>
UK Politics

Sunak calls for end to ‘sick note culture’ with new welfare ‘mission’

<p>Rishi Sunak urged restraint as Israel responded to an unprecedented direct attack by Iran</p>
UK Politics

Sunak calls for ‘calm heads’ as Israel launches attack on Iran

<p>The parliamentary researcher says he is ‘completely inccocent’ (John Walton/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Westminster scandals: The MPs who are suspended or have lost the whip

<p>The parliamentary researcher says he is ‘completely inccocent’ (John Walton/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Westminster scandals: The MPs who are suspended or have lost the whip

<p>The site of Marco Pierre White’s former restaurant in Leicester Square has been occupied by squatters</p>
Home News

Squatters move into Marco Pierre White’s West End restaurant

<p>Katharine Birbalsingh welcome the High Court ruling </p>
Home News

UK’s ‘strictest’ headteacher’s full statement on Muslim prayer ban row

<p>TSB says it is ‘deeply concerned by the high levels of fraud from tech companies and Meta-owned social media sites’ such as Facebook </p>
Crime

Social media giants must help us clamp down on fraud, says bank boss

<p>Former Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson</p>
Home News

Lord Heseltine highlights plight of ex-mayor left in limbo over arrest

<p>Lori and George Schappell did not want to be separated </p>
Americas

World’s oldest conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell die

<p>Lennix Sutfcliffe died in a quiet cul-de-sac after a driver pulled onto their driveway </p>
Home News

Parents pay tribute to happy-go-lucky son, 8, killed on toy scooter

<p>Gordon Ramsay’s pub the York & Albany was put on the market last year </p>
Home News

Squatters aiming to turn Gordon Ramsay gastropub into community cafe

Middle East

Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel, military says

<p>Lennix Sutfcliffe died in a quiet cul-de-sac after a driver pulled onto their driveway </p>
Home News

Parents pay tribute to happy-go-lucky son, 8, killed on toy scooter

<p>Gordon Ramsay’s pub the York & Albany was put on the market last year </p>
Home News

Squatters aiming to turn Gordon Ramsay gastropub into community cafe

Middle East

Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel, military says

<p>A man takes photos of the waves as Storm Kathleen rages on</p>
Home News

Holiday park issued ‘get to high ground’ warning as river bursts banks

Home News

Holiday park issued ‘get to high ground’ warning as river bursts banks

<p>A man takes photos of the waves as Storm Kathleen rages on</p>
UK Politics

Wes Streeting: The Labour ‘poster boy’ out to shake up the NHS

Crime

‘Fun and mischievous’ boy, 15, dies after stabbing at shopping centre

<p>David Lammy’s LBC show is being investigated by Ofcom</p>
UK Politics

Ofcom probing whether David Lammy’s LBC show broke broadcasting rules

<p>Drug users prepare heroin before injecting at a safe injection facility set up by activist Peter Krykant in Glasgow in 2020 </p>
UK Politics

Drug treatment boss throws down gauntlet over life-saving service

<p>Drug users prepare heroin before injecting at a safe injection facility set up by activist Peter Krykant in Glasgow in 2020 </p>
UK Politics

Drug treatment boss throws down gauntlet over life-saving service

<p>Vladimir Putin will seek to exploit Rishi Sunak’s ‘undermining’ of international huma rights law, Gordon Brown has warned </p>
UK Politics

Putin will exploit Sunak’s threat to leave ECHR, warns Gordon Brown

<p>Former cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill called for Britain’s defence spending to reach 4 per cent of GDP </p>
UK Politics

Britain must spend more on defence, warns former top civil servant

<p>A man waving Palestinian flags walks past pro-Israel supporters during a march to mark Al Quds Day </p>
Home News

Ten arrests as opposing Israel-Palestine protests held in London

<p>Benjamin Netanyahu said the strike was unintentional </p>
Middle East

Israel’s Netanyahu takes responsibility for strike which killed Brits

<p>Pouria Zeraati released a defiant hospital picture after being stabbed on Friday </p>
Crime

Suspects in stabbing of Iranian journalist fled UK ‘within hours’

Europe

Istanbul nightclub fire kills at least 29 as several people detained

<p>JK Rowling previously challenged police to arrest her over her comments about transgender people </p>
Home News

JK Rowling comments about hate law crime ‘not criminal’, say police

Home News

Thousands trapped in Grenfell-style flats ‘scammed’ by insurers

UK Politics

Mapped: All the MPs standing down at the next election

<p>A third of prisons have fewer than 10 trained Tornado riot officers despite rising disorder </p>
Home News

Nearly one in six prisons have no officers trained to deal with riots

<p>The man, aged 57, was pronounced dead after being hit by a car on Olympic Street</p>
Crime

Man killed by his own car ‘while trying to stop thieves stealing it’

Crime

Man killed by his own car ‘while trying to stop thieves stealing it’

<p>The man, aged 57, was pronounced dead after being hit by a car on Olympic Street</p>
<p>Among the strangest substitutions were Ocado sending mushrooms instead of tampons</p>
Home News

Oddest supermarket substitutions include mushrooms swapped for tampons

<p>Around 50 corpses were left littered outside Broughton Community Shop </p>
Crime

Burnt-out car found in probe after 50 dead animals dumped outside shop

<p>Schools have been closed and transport disrupted last month after flooding in Hampshire </p>
Home News

Met Office warns rain will lash UK as over 140 flood alerts issued

<p>Elections today </p>
Europe

Russia elections: Everything you need to know

<p>Elections today </p>
Europe

Russia elections: Everything you need to know

<p>An information sign as traffic builds up in Cobham, Surrey, near to a closed section of the M25</p>
News & Advice

Miles of gridlock as stretch of M25 closed for first time ever

<p>‘The prison service is just in crisis on everything – from overcrowding to assaults rising, to Tornado incidents on the rise. Officers are stretched to the limit,’ warns the Prison Officers Association </p>
Home News

Jails face explosion of violence due to ‘Tornado riot squad’ shortage

<p>Vaughan Gething will be Wales’s next first minister</p>
UK Politics

Vaughan Gething to become Wales’s first minister

<p>A 44-year-old woman was shot in the head with a crossbow bolt while crossing the road on Club Row, Shoreditch </p>
Crime

Search for suspect after two London crossbow attacks may be linked

UK Politics

Right-wing Tories plotting to replace Rishi Sunak with Penny Mordaunt

Home News

Revealed: Women can be released from prison early under emergency plan

LiveUK Politics

Gove names Muslim and white supremacist groups in extremism definition

<p>A bus has crashed into a block of flats in Paisley</p>
Home News

Five hospitalised after bus crashes into block of flats in Paisley

<p>MPs have expressed concern over a takeover bid for The Daily Telegraph </p>
Media

UK set to ban foreign governments from owning British newspapers

<p>Ms Abbott, who is currently suspended by Labour, described Mr Hester’s reported comments as ‘frightening’ </p>
UK Politics

Diane Abbott reports Tory donor Frank Hester to Met Police

<p>A new poll suggests that over a quarter of women felt their career progression slowed after returning from parental leave</p>
Home News

Call to end ‘motherhood penalty’ as women report slower careers

Home News

Call to end ‘motherhood penalty’ as women report slower careers

<p>A new poll suggests that over a quarter of women felt their career progression slowed after returning from parental leave</p>
UK Politics

Failed asylum-seekers offered thousands of pounds to move to Rwanda

<p>Police have cordoned off streets close to Bury Market</p>
Crime

Town centre shut off after suspected triple stabbing in Bury

<p>The baby was discovered in a property on Raglan Street, police said</p>
Crime

Mother charged with newborn baby’s murder in Coventry

<p>Four-letter Deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson says migrants can ‘f*** off back to France’</p>
UK Politics

Who is Lee Anderson? Tory accused of ‘stoking division’ joins Reform

<p>Four-letter Deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson says migrants can ‘f*** off back to France’</p>
UK Politics

Who is Lee Anderson? Tory accused of ‘stoking division’ joins Reform

<p>Government plans to ease prison overcrowding risk heaping further pressure on a probation service already in crisis, The Independent has previously been told</p>
Home News

More criminals to be released from prison early to tackle overcrowding

<p>Nitazenes have been discovered in not just heroin but illicit vapes, diazepam and codeine pills</p>
Home News

Revealed: Synthetic opioids have already claimed lives behind bars

<p>Drug users prepare heroin before injecting at an overdose prevention centre set up in Glasgow by activist Peter Krykant in 2020 </p>
Health

‘Profound’ threat of lethal synthetic opioids is growing, warns EU

<p>Nationwide CEO Debbie Crosbie announced the plan as the stock market opened on Thursday </p>
Home News

Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money by UK’s top woman banker

<p>Administrators for the Body Shop have confirmed more store closures</p>
Home News

Victims of Body Shop mass-sacking urge reform of ‘predatory’ laws

<p>Charles Spencer has written a forthcoming memoir </p>
Home News

Princess Diana’s brother says he paid sex worker £15 to lose virginity

<p>Administrators for Body Shop made some 270 head office staff redundant last Tuesday</p>
Business

Body Shop admits breaking employment law with sudden mass sacking

UK Politics

Tax calculator: See how Jeremy Hunt’s Budget will affect you

<p>Jeremy Hunt delivering his Budget to the Commons (House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Fuel duty freeze extended in Budget in boost to motorists

<p>Jeremy Hunt has attempted to shore up support for his languishing party with a series of tax cuts – but the budget watchdog has warned the typical worker will still be hundreds of pounds worse off overall</p>
UK Politics

Hunt unveils £10bn NI cut – but average worker still £400 worse off

<p>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty (Peter Byrne/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Non-dom tax status abolished in Jeremy Hunt’s 2024 Budget

Royal Family

Kate’s uncle accuses Harry of throwing royal family ‘under the bus’

<p>Europe’s largest local authority announced it was effectively bankrupt in September </p>
Home News

Birmingham Council signs off 21% tax hike and ‘devastating’ cuts

<p>Shakira Spencer is seen on doorbell footage days before her death</p>
Crime

Chilling final CCTV images of mother starved and murdered by trio

<p>One in 10 millennials are set to get nothing, while the top 10 per cent will receive more than £500,000 each, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies</p>
UK Politics

Calls for £10,000 ‘citizen’s inheritance’ for all 30-year-olds

<p>The driver fled the scene in Szczecin before being apprehended, officials said</p>
Europe

Children among 17 injured after car hits crowd of people in Poland

<p>Shakira Spencer is seen on doorbell footage days before her death</p>
Crime

Chilling final CCTV images of mother starved and murdered by trio

<p>One in 10 millennials are set to get nothing, while the top 10 per cent will receive more than £500,000 each, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies</p>
UK Politics

Calls for £10,000 ‘citizen’s inheritance’ for all 30-year-olds

<p>The driver fled the scene in Szczecin before being apprehended, officials said</p>
Europe

Children among 17 injured after car hits crowd of people in Poland

<p>Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region</p>
Europe

Two years of war in Ukraine: Russia’s invasion in numbers

UK Politics

How are Labour and Tories planning to help with rising energy bills?

<p>Mitchell writes movingly about her last cup of tea and why she decided to stop eating and drinking </p>
Home News

Wendy Mitchell dead: Author and dementia campaigner announces death

<p>Paul Maynard (Richard Townshend/UK Parliament/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Watchdog investigates Tory MP accused of misusing taxpayers’ money

<p>Dan Wootton has not appeared on GB News since September </p>
Media

Dan Wootton says he’s been cleared by police over criminal allegations

<p>Keir Starmer was taken out to dinner by the then home secretary Theresa May to thank him for his tenure leading the Crown Prosecution Service, according to a new biography</p>
UK Politics

Tories would have reappointed Keir Starmer as top prosecutor

<p>Liz Truss has recently launched the right-wing pressure group Popular Conservatism </p>
UK Politics

Truss claims ‘West is doomed’ unless right-wingers save it

UK Politics

Tory and SNP anger as Speaker allows Labour Gaza vote

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