A father who lost his family when an inferno engulfed their home in south-east London received a call from his wife who shouted:" Fire, fire!... It went silent." The children's uncle was also in the property and jumped out of a window to escape the flames, suffering an injury.A former colleague of Yogan's, Mayil Mathivathanan, said he had visited him on Friday afternoon.... He is such a nice guy," he said. Witnesses said the semi-detached house was engulfed in flames within minutes....

been doing it in areas including Hillingdon, Belvedere, Bexleyheath, Crayford and Sutton. Jeanette

called to the blaze at the house on Hamilton Road in Bexleyheath. London Fire Commissioner Andy Roe

Black smoke has been seen rising from the building nearby to the Palais Garnier opera house on Place de l' Opera in Paris.... There are also visible flames in two windows of the building, through which smoke is billowing out.It is understood that 100 firefighters were called to the scene of the fire. People are being ordered to" avoid the area and do not unnecessarily clutter emergency lines" by the fire services. The building is located on boulevard des Capucines. The area surrounding the buil

Single mum Neda Amini, 41, is now awaiting extradition to France to face allegations she played a lead role in sourcing desperate people to make the dangerous crossing.... Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard the network was jointly investigated by police in UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands.... The prosecution is taking place in France. Judge Timothy Godfrey ordered her extradition “ in order to prosecute her for three offences arising out of her alleged involvement in a network of peop

A FURIOUS Asda shopper was fined ￡70 after parking for just 13 MINUTES outside a closed store. The shopper-who asked not to be named-pulled up outside an Asda superstore in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, on a Sunday evening in the hope he'd be able to grab some last-minute groceries.... I was there for a total of 13 minutes." He added:" I have taken my fine into the store as I thought maybe they had made a mistake.... " A lady at the desk told me there is nothing they can do as I’m ‘only a custome

Your support helps us to tell the storyRead moreSupport NowFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.... Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 went overhead, ” chimed another. Another person posted a picture of flight tracker, saying: “ Eurofighter typhoon escorting a plane to Stansted.... Causing the sonic boom all over Essex....

THE Smithy Family has quit TikTok after an arson attack destroyed their home, as they revealed they are moving to a gated property. The family, who have over 3.5 million followers on TikTok, have said “ Good Bye Beautiful People''in a video posted to Facebook, before quitting all platforms.... I also urge the public to refrain from undertaking their own investigations in relation to this case." We ask that anyone with information relating to this incident calls police on 101 or tweets@ MetCC qu

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theView from Westminster email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Please try again later{{/ verifyErrors}} A member of Sir Keir Starmer’s top team billed taxpayers for a ￡55 parking ticket, leading the expenses watchdog to tighten its rules and write to MPs, The Independent can reveal.... After The Independent’s original report, IPSA wrote to MPs to remind them of the rules. Labour frontbenc

A proposal from the Lords to the Environment Bill that would have placed legal duties on sewage companies to reduce how much is dumped was defeated by 265 MPs' votes to 202 last week.... Peers in the House of Lords tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill that would make water companies and the government demonstrate progressive reductions in discharges of untreated sewage, requiring them to" take all reasonable steps" to avoid using combined sewer overflows. But ministers said the changes w