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The nation’s employees believe work now takes up 42 per cent of their life, according to research. Researchers carried out a detailed study of 2,000 adults in employment and found we all want more downtime. Half of those polled agreed waking up in the morning and dreading the day ahead at work is a sure-sign you need to address your work-life balance. And one third agreed struggling to sleep and finding yourself regularly in a bad mood are other common...

Acourt, 42, was extradition from Spain after being arrested as he left a gym in Barcelona in joint Spanish and British police operation

They were arrested in dawn raid at addresses across London.

David Davis is favourite to leave Theresa May's cabinet next. Odds on the Brexit Minister resigning plummeted from from 8/1 to 2/1 today. With cabinet tensions over customs plans reported to be boiling over, Davis looks to be in line to go next according to the latest betting data. May has also been cut into 5/1 from 6/1 to hold her hands up and step down before anyone else in the government, while Chris Grayling has come in from 6/1 to...

The 74-year-old has spent four days bedding down in the shed and living apart from his wife

The businessman, who had cancer which he had kept private, died in the early hours of Thursday morning

Tropical cyclones over land have slowed down 20 per cent in the Atlantic, 30 per cent in the western North Pacific and 19 per cent in the Australian region

New figures have revealed that nearly four million adults in the UK have been forced to use food banks as poverty grips Britain. The research, which comes hot heels of revelations leaked yesterday that Britain has nine out of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe, found there to be "shocking" levels of deprivation across the country, with experts warning that social security policy changes under the Tory government were leading to “destitution by design”. The exclusive poll commissioned by The Independent...

With Theresa May looking more vulnerable than ever, she cut a sorry figure at Prime Minister’s Questions today. “Just like our shambolic privatised railways, this government’s incompetence threatens our economy, businesses, jobs and our communities,” said the Labour Leader, referencing the Northern Rail franchise shambles. “So, my question to the prime minister is this,” added Jeremy Corbyn, “Which will last longer, the Northern rail franchise or her premiership?” Accused of having wasted more energy negotiating with her own fiercely divided...