The Independent Police Complaints Commission announces a review of the way it deals with custody deaths following a BBC investigation.

Yesterday’s Press Gazette  highlights that the Panorama programme broadcast, entitled Secrets of the Tory Billionaire, on Monday night may help the Independent defend the libel case brought against it by Lord Ashcroft. In a development that you couldn’t make up, the Independent, in its own coverage of the programme,  referred to Lord Ashdown when talking

Liberal Democrat Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne  in the Guardian about the Coalition’s strategy to prevent torture throughout the World and about the independent enquiry which will investigate whether Britain was implicated in torture after 9/11: We know that we face a long and difficult road ahead. But our vision is for people to be

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week: 5 most-read stories on LDV this week The Independent View: The benefits cap policy is based on myths (30 comments) by Alison Garnham How should Diana Wallis be replaced? (54 comments) by Mark Pack Lib Dem peers help inflict

Child maintenance is a life-line for many single parent families, whose children are twice as likely to live in poverty as those of couple families. The Government’s proposals to attach charges to access the Child Support Agency will see vulnerable families with no option but to seek state help to gain maintenance pushed further into

The benefit cap was announced by George Osborne at the Conservative Party Conference in October 2010. It means families will not be able to receive more than a total of £500 in benefits each week – regardless of local rental values or how many children are in the household. As the crucial votes on the

The owner of the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers says Parliament should look at introducing privacy laws.

Exposed: Taxman's 'illegal' war against Britain's small businesses. That is the title of a most interesting report in the Independent. Not so much a war, I would have said, as a shakedown. The Government is unlawfully using late-payment penalty fines against tens of thousands of small firms who do not file their tax returns on time as a "cash-generating scheme" for the Excheque...

John Hemming, Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, is an unabashed iconoclast. The Independent this week sought to understand what makes him tick a little better. Inevitably there is some focus on his private life — most notoriously brought to public attention by his estranged wife’s stealing of a kitten from his girlfriend’s house —

David Laws is interviewed in the current issue of Attain, a magazine focussed on the independent schools’ sector, where he has the following to say on the issue of whether free schools should be permitted to make profits: I think it is important that the people who come in and deliver the education should be