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Liberty Global and Telefónica, alongside InfraVia Capital through their Nexfibre joint venture, will acquire Netomnia, currently the UK's second-largest alternative network provider. The deal will expand Nexfibre's footprint to around 8 million households by the end of next year. Combined with Virgin Media O2's existing infrastructure, the enlarged network will cover approximately 20 million premises and serve about 6.2 million customers.

It previously reported 34 laboratory-confirmed measles cases in Enfield from 1 January to 9 February. But the latest data from the UKHSA has confirmed measles cases have continued to increase in London, which is being driven by the outbreak in Enfield, with 50 confirmed cases in the borough up to 16 February. The agency also confirmed there were 10 cases in the neighbouring borough of Haringey and 23 cases in Birmingham.

Henry Pollock has been such a prominent figure in the recent rugby landscape that we had to double check that Saturday will be the first time he has started a game for England. Such has been the meteoric rise of the effervescent 21-year-old, it's easy to forget that up to now, each of his seven Test caps has come from the bench. That will all change against Ireland at Twickenham this weekend.

I felt the need to gamble to try and get something back, this has led to me losing £93,000 to try and recoup the money I paid into Mowle's bank account, going into a deep state of depression and having to seek help via medication and counselling.

A British consumers' organization has withdrawn its competition claim against Qualcomm after it determined the Competition Appeal Tribunal was likely to find Qualcomm was not at fault. The consumers' organization, Which?, filed the claim in February 2021 on behalf of around 29 million British consumers, alleging that Qualcomm had "breached UK competition law by taking advantage of its dominance in the patent-licensing and chipset markets."

A 33-year-old man remains in custody after he was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Thursday. Chief superintendent Matt Peach said: Emergency services were in immediate attendance at the holiday park, where sadly a 15-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy were pronounced deceased inside the property. This is incredibly distressing and heartbreaking for the families of the teenagers involved, and they are at the forefront of our minds and actions.

Two funeral directors have been jailed for four years over storing bodies in unrefrigerated conditions, while one body was found decomposed in their mortuary room, having been left there for 36 days. Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, who ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, were convicted of public nuisance, preventing the decent burial of a body and fraud offences following a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court last year. The case has prompted renewed calls for urgent regulation of the funeral sector.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

However, she confirmed that the Crown Prosecution Service would be seeking a retrial of the six acquitted of aggravated burglary on the charges that the jury failed to reach verdicts on after more than 36 hours of deliberations. Heer told Mr Justice Johnson on Wednesday: As we indicated at the end of the trial, we now confirm the prosecution intention to seek a retrial in respect of all those allegations which no verdict was returned by the jury.

Six Palestine Action activists will face a retrial on criminal damage charges over a break-in at the UK base of an Israeli defence firm, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced. Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, are all accused of the raid on the Elbit Systems site near Bristol on 6 August 2024.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Daniel Boakye, 21, who performs under the name dsavv, fled Lewisham Hospital in south-east London on Sunday afternoon. He had been taken there to receive medical treatment. It came after he escaped from prison guards at West Middlesex University Hospital on 10 February. He was recaptured by Met Police officers the next day. Boakye has been serving a sentence of six years and five months, imposed in 2023.

A van driver who crashed into a broken-down car in a smart motorway's fast lane has been found guilty of causing death by careless driving. Barry O'Sullivan was driving a Ford Transit Connect on the M4 westbound between junctions 11 and 12 in Berkshire when he hit a stationary Nissan Micra on 7 March 2022. Pulvinder Dhillon, 68, from London, was a passenger in the car and died.

The Year of the Fire Horse has arrived. And there are few better ways to celebrate it than at the biggest Lunar New Year celebration outside of Asia, which just so happens to be right here in London. This time every year, London's Chinatown erupts with dramatic martial arts displays, opulent red and gold costumes, fireworks, dancing dragons and more to usher in the Chinese New Year.

Abdishakur Osman previously pleaded guity to stealing items worth 11,753 from his employer on 15 June 2023. On Wednesday, Thames Magistrates' Court heard that Osman had been working as a security guard at Harrods Studio at the time of the theft. According to Harrods' website, Harrods Studio, in north London's Islington, creates images and descriptions for the luxury department store's online shop.

A weekend break: what does that really mean? It's an escape from reality; often, somewhere with a mountain of pillows and a bath you can float in. It's room service, no washing up and pressed sheets. There are times when the full hotel treatment is divine; life changing, even. Exactly what you need. But, right now, a different kind of break is creeping into our collective consciousness - and it's anything but polished.