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Hackers have cracked security on devices designed to stop thieves hot-wiring almost every modern car, with every major make of immobiliser defeated, it can be revealed.

Hackers have cracked security on devices designed to stop thieves hot-wiring almost every modern car, with every major make of immobiliser defeated, it can be revealed.

Britain is to pay for migrants in Calais to be returned to their home countries as part of a £7m drive to ease the crisis in the French port.

WHSmith may have banked around £100m over the last five years by failing to hand over VAT discounts to passengers passing through its airport stores, an analysis by The Independent suggests.

WHSmith may have banked around £50m over the last five years by failing to hand over VAT discounts to passengers passing through its airport stores, an analysis by The Independent suggests.

As long as there has been a music industry, there has been payola – the practice of offering cash or chemical inducements to DJs in order to secure prominent airtime for a new release.

The world’s “greatest living sociologist” has been accused by academics of committing serial “self-plagiarism” that involved recycling his previous writings and “passing off his old scholarship as new for around 25 years”. 

The driver of a bin lorry which killed six people in Glasgow has refused to answer crucial questions about his history of fainting, heart problems and dizziness.

It is advisable to avoid messing with the cricketing gods, wherever they might be. Alastair Cook, the England captain, was no doubt feeling pretty pleased with life when he won the toss under overcast skies.

Sir John Chilcot and his team have no plans to abandon their examination of the war in Iraq, they insisted, after The Independent revealed the inquiry panel had discussed resigning en masse in protest against the pressure it has been put under to speed up publication.

The former artistic director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, has announced plans for London’s first new playhouse in 20 years, in a move that will see the centre of the capital’s theatreland shift east along the Thames.

Philip Hammond will become the first Foreign Secretary to visit Iran for more than a decade when he reopens Britain’s embassy in Tehran four years after it was ransacked by a mob.

French Open champion Stan Wawrinka says he is yet to receive an apology from Nick Kyrgios for the Australian's incendiary comment during their match last week.

Theresa May has insisted that new security measures are starting to take effect at Calais, but admits the migrant crisis could shift to other ports.

The Queen’s Park Rangers striker Charlie Austin has described as “outrageous” comments by the West Ham chairman David Sullivan that the striker had no ligaments in his right knee and could break down at any moment.

Labour MPs have been forced to step in to save supporters from being "purged" from the party after it emerged that a raft of long-time members have been barred from voting in the leadership contest.

Fear and excitement were on display in equal measure as an unprecedented number of Poles sacrificed their blood for Britain.

Boys are closing the gap with girls in GCSE performance, after the Government scrapped coursework.

Thousands of Polish migrant workers have gone on strike today; they are using the time off work to donate blood, in order to demonstrate their value and contribution to the British economy.

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Jonathan Crown has written a lovely novel about Nazi Germany. The success of Crown's light approach to serious subject matter owes much to Sirius, the extraordinary dog of the title, whose name is changed from "Levi" by his Jewish owners, the Liliencrons, when the Nazis ban Jews from owning pets.

Three years after Gore Vidal's death it is already difficult, particularly on this side of the Atlantic, to grasp quite what a dominant position he once occupied in American culture, simply because that culture has changed beyond recognition.

Soon after the publication of Edmund Gosse's Father and Son in 1907 a reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement asked how far "in the interests of popular edification or amusement" was it "legitimate to expose the weaknesses and inconsistencies of a good man who is also one's father"?

Tim and maud meet at their university sailing club. She's quiet, self-contained, something of an enigma; one of those unknowable, mysterious women. Inked along her forearm is the phrase "sauve qui peut" – "every man for himself".

Ahmet Altan's "existential thriller" opens with a man sitting on a bench at night in a small Turkish town. He is a crime novelist, and came to this out-of-the-way place to write, but instead of working, he has become entangled in the town's intrigues and has ended up a killer, the fatal shot fired only moments before.