Tom Peck
Tom Peck is a reporter on The Independent's news desk with an interest in just about everything. In January 2012 he became the paper's Olympics Correspondent.
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Tom Maynard was 'habitual cocaine user', batsman's inquest hears
26 February 2013 02:07 PM
Accidental death verdict on 'very special' Surrey player who was killed on live railway tracks
Reasons to move to Wales? Well there's the healthcare, the house prices, the ...
24 February 2013 09:29 PM
Head of Cameron’s local Tory branch resigns over gay marriage
24 February 2013 07:36 PM
The chairwoman of David Cameron’s local Conservative branch has resigned in protest at his support for gay marriage.
Q: What is one of Britain’s fast-growing pastimes? A: The pub quizzes that are seeing big screens switched for answer sheets
22 February 2013 08:00 PM
Quizzes are replacing football as the best way for pub landlords to draw in punters
Lord McAlpine: I forgive everyone - except Sally Bercow
21 February 2013 08:01 PM
Peer drops action against Twitter users, but intends to pursue Speaker's wife
The answer to the Mantel Middleton Maelstrom is obvious: replace the monarchy with pandas
21 February 2013 09:07 AM
Whatever the Booker Prize winner's intentions were in suggesting the panda-royal family comparison, she's hit upon a brilliant solution that deserves further exploration
Drums muffle Marine Le Pen's far-right message on visit to Cambridge
19 February 2013 08:14 PM
Angry protesters picket French nationalist leader’s speech to debating society
Eight arrested after kidnapped politician's body is found in a barrelof cement
19 February 2013 12:09 AM
Eight people have been arrested in Russia after a politician's body was found stuffed in a barrel of cement.
‘Pay £200k or we’ll sell intimate secrets to the tabloids’: Tamara Ecclestone 'blackmailed by her ex-boyfriend', court hears
18 February 2013 07:35 PM
Tamara Ecclestone, the model and television presenter daughter of Formula 1 billionaire Bernie, has appeared in court to face a former boyfriend who allegedly attempted to blackmail her into handing over hundreds of thousands of pounds or face “intimate secrets” being sold to the tabloid press.
Slave labour or an honest quid? What it’s really like at Poundland
15 February 2013 07:24 PM
The discount chain has taken the heat for a government jobs scheme that didn’t work, but is it really that bad? Tom Peck tried it for a day
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
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After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group
'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system'
Plenty of sleaze
The Freemasons’ Code
Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last
How to say ‘I’m a sellout’
Why clubs are keen to take a stand
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City
James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie
Stuart Hogg: Ready to climb his own Everest
Steve Bunce on Boxing
Masculinity in crisis?
Have US shock jocks gone too far?
The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey
Heavenly Bodies
