Rob Williams
Rob Williams is an online journalist and sub-editor. He has worked at The Independent since summer 2008.
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Is this the worst driving test in history? Woman fails test within ten seconds after flipping car
02 August 2013 03:45 PM
The instructor can be heard shouting "Brake, brake, brake, brake. Oh s**t."
New York woman killed in 140 feet plunge after railing gives way on apartment balcony
02 August 2013 02:18 PM
She is thought to have fallen after sitting or leaning on a railing while talking to her date at her New York City apartment
Americans pay GCHQ £100m to spy for them, leaked NSA papers from Edward Snowden claim
02 August 2013 12:40 PM
In return for the payment GCHQ was required to ‘pull its weight’, according to the documents which were leaked last night
Woman tries to buy two Apple iPhones online, ends up with actual edible apples
02 August 2013 11:42 AM
Buyer did not check inside the boxes and on arriving home found they contained real apples
Man repays $500,000 in insurance awarded for death of son with four tonnes of quarters
02 August 2013 11:00 AM
The quarters were in 150 separate bags each weighing 50 pounds and containing $1,000 worth of quarters
Inside the $7m fairy castle doll's house built by 100 people for a Hollywood film star
02 August 2013 10:35 AM
The fairy castle is around 9-square-foot and features about 1,500 miniatures
One in twelve UK adults admit they photograph attractive strangers on public transport, in the park or at the doctor's surgery claims poll
01 August 2013 04:20 PM
The survey also claims that almost seven million people in the UK have admitted to taking an intimate picture of themselves
American tourist stabbed to death after refusing to stop singing with band in Thailand bar
01 August 2013 02:21 PM
The dispute allegedly came about at a karaoke bar following a dispute over the song he was singing
Ice cream and fizzy drinks avert mass chimpanzee escape bid at Twycross Zoo
01 August 2013 12:57 PM
Twycross Zoo has since reopened after the incident earlier this morning in which a group of chimpanzees got into a ‘secure service area’ of their enclosure
NSA uses XKeyscore program which tracks 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
01 August 2013 11:38 AM
The program can use almost any identifying information to track the online behaviour of a target
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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