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</div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"> <div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story " data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2015/07/07/14/AN74679595Queen Elizabeth I.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-royal-family-abolished-republic-funding-rise-buckingham-palace-a7425446.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <h1><a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-royal-family-abolished-republic-funding-rise-buckingham-palace-a7425446.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Fresh calls for monarchy to be abolished after taxpayer funding rise</a></h1> </div> </div> <div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story " data-tb-region-item="3-2"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2015/11/27/08/drone-in-flight-generic.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drone-heathrow-plane-near-miss-london-shard-close-collision-a7422646.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <h1><a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drone-heathrow-plane-near-miss-london-shard-close-collision-a7422646.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Drone had 'near miss' with Heathrow-bound passenger plane above Shard</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161118212225oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ipcc-investigation-launched-man-dies-police-custody-london-a7425721.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" 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</article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161118212225oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-latest-a7424396.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/07/23/arek-jozwik.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-latest-a7424396.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-latest-a7424396.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>After the Brexit vote, Britain’s Poles are facing an uncertain future</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>It has been almost three months since Arek Jozwik, a 40-year-old Polish factory worker in Harlow, was killed after being punched to the ground. Harlow police arrested six teenagers, five of whom were released because of insufficient evidence, while one has been released on bail. Two Polish police officers dispatched from Warsaw to reassure Harlow’s Polish community have headed home, leaving Mr Jozwik’s friends and family desperate for justice and deeply afraid. “We only stick together now. We only go to places where you know who is there,” says Eric Hind, a Polish close friend of Mr Jozwik.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="2" class="weight-2"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161118212225oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peer-lord-immigration-native-britons-bloody-stupid-kerr-migration-a7425336.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size2/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/18/16/lord-kerr.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peer-lord-immigration-native-britons-bloody-stupid-kerr-migration-a7425336.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peer-lord-immigration-native-britons-bloody-stupid-kerr-migration-a7425336.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>UK needs migration 'because Britons are bloody stupid', says lord</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>'We need an injection of intelligent people, young people from outside who come in and wake us up from time to time,' says Lord Kerr</p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-6"><article data-weight="2" class="weight-2"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161118212225oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scotland-considering-offering-northern-irish-women-free-abortions-nicola-sturgeon-says-a7424736.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size2/public/thumbnails/image/2015/10/16/10/Nicola 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police</a></h1> </div> </div> <div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story " data-tb-region-item="2-2"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/06/18/11/thomas-mair-jo-cox.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jo-cox-murder-trial-tommy-mair-walked-away-not-a-care-in-the-world-a7423806.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <h1><a href="/web/20161118212225/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jo-cox-murder-trial-tommy-mair-walked-away-not-a-care-in-the-world-a7423806.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Alleged murderer of Jo Cox 'walked away with not a care in the world'</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " 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EU money</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>'I've understood absolutely the rules. 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