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Weatherwatch: The perfect spot for wondering about wispy clouds
The Anderby Creek Cloud Bar is grandly described as the world's first "official cloudspotting area", and ranks as Lincolnshire's 167th most popular tourist attraction. This is not bad considering there...
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The weather in November
Last month was the second warmest November in a record that stretches back to 1659, behind only November 1994. The autumn as a whole was the second warmest, just beaten by 2006, with rainfall well...
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Tyrannosaur takes hat trick at British Independent Film Awards
Paddy Considine collects best film and best debut director awards while Olivia Colman is best actressTyrannosaur, Paddy Considine's gripping and gruelling study of rage, has become the biggest winner...
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Slovenia election: Ljubljana's mayor takes surprise victory
Zoran Janković's centre-left Positive Slovenia party likely to form coalition with outgoing Social DemocratsThe centre-left mayor of Slovenia's capital Ljubljana won a narrow victory in a parliamentary...
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Enda Kenny 'optimistic' for Irish recovery
Irish PM warns of tough cuts budget next week, but predicts four-year route back to economic healthIreland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, has warned of a tough budget ahead for the Irish this week, but...
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Austerity bites in Italy – and leaves minister in tears
Elsa Fornero weeps as she tries to explain sacrifices required of Italians after cabinet passes budget with net cuts of €24bnItaly's "technocratic" government unveiled a package of painful austerity...
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Fresh concrete block report leads to partial closure of A12
Traffic disrupted in Essex after sighting of man on bridge follows two attacks on vehicles last weekPart of the A12 in Essex was closed after a woman reported a man holding a concrete block on a bridge...
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The Reading the Riots project: our methodology explained
How we and our academic partners went about collecting and analysing 1.3m words of rioters' first-person accountsReading the Riots is the only research study into the causes and consequences of the...
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Rioter profile: 'Looting was nothing personal. It's just business'
A young Birmingham man who admits to being involved in looting during the English riots this summer tells his storyA young man who describes himself as a "natural criminal" and gang member. He was...
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Rioter profile: 'this is some next-level revolution coming'
A young man from Liverpool recalls the riots and his part in them, which he says cost him his jobAn 18-year-old man from Liverpool lost his job after the riots and is now unemployed:"I was watching the...
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Victims' voices: rioters 'broke every window on our street'
The owner of a jeweller's that has been in his family for six generations tells how rioters smashed their way into the shopJohn Henn, owner of TA Henn jeweller's on Princess Street, Wolverhampton....
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Rioters say anger with police fuelled summer unrest
Guardian-LSE study of riots – involving hundreds of interviews with participants – reveals deep antipathy towards officersWidespread anger and frustration at the way police engage with communities was...
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David Cameron ready to put chunks of NHS up for sale, says Labour
Prime minister will outline plans to encourage NHS ties with industry and fuel innovation, including £180m catalyst fundLabour has accused David Cameron of being willing to put "large chunks of the NHS...
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Almost 4m children in Britain do not own a book, poll finds
National Literacy Trust describes as 'very worrying' results of survey of 18,000 children between 11 and 16Almost 4 million children in Britain – one in three – do not own a book, a poll has found. The...
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Indifferent elites, poverty and police brutality – all reasons to riot in the...
This summer's social unrest in Britain was destructive and incoherent but, as our study shows, it was still a form of protestAt the beginning of August, in a fit of collective pathology, thousands of...
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Simon Kelner launches Journalism Foundation
Former Independent editor Simon Kelner launches charity aimed at promoting journalism around the worldSimon Kelner, the former editor of the Independent, is launching a charity today aimed at promoting...
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Police hunt for lodger after two women found dead in Southport
Police believe lodger Barry Morrow may have travelled abroad after mother and daughter found dead in housePolice investigating the murders of a woman and her 75-year-old mother are trying to trace the...
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English riots were 'a sort of revenge' against the police
Rioters interviewed for our study say they sought retribution for what they saw as police abuse of power in their communities"The police is the biggest gang out there." This view of the police, or...
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A fire lit in Tottenham that burned Manchester: the rioters' story
Rioters from across England describe how it felt to be caught up in the chaos that engulfed the country last summerAlex had stepped outside the pub in Tottenham for a cigarette when he saw the...
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Who were the rioters?
Our research challenges the assumption that rioters were largely young, black gang members with criminal pastsThe debate in the aftermath of the August riots could easily have left the impression that...
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