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Reports suggest the Galley's Corner roundabout is blocked with traffic being diverted on to Cressing Road

The Crown Estate is a public corporation that runs the monarchy's £16billion land and property portfolio, including virtually all of the seabed around the UK

Ricky Gervais has admitted 'offending people makes it funnier for him' as he hit back at critics who blast his controversial jokes.

For over 27 years, Senator Lindsey Graham would call his communications director Kevin Bishop in after nine in the morning to get a jump start on the news.

Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2015. But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN. It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth... NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went into a planned hibernation mode on August 7, 2025, and woke up on June 23 using commands stored on its main computer. The mission's flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons is in great shape and ready to transmit a stream of science data gathered during hibernation from its location in the region of icy objects known as the Kuiper Belt. Pluto is the largest of thousands of frozen, rocky bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, that exist in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system — remnants from its formation 4.5 billion years ago... The spacecraft is capturing data about the rotation rates, orientations and shapes... The measurements provide insights into how planets are born from dust and pebbles, said Pontus Brandt, New Horizons project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. "There seems to be more paired, snowman-shaped bodies, like Arrokoth, out there than anyone expected," Brandt wrote in an email. "Are such binaries the most common planetesimal and is this how larger planets have been built in our own and other stellar systems? These are very deep questions that New Horizons can help answer." The spacecraft also measures the distribution of gas in the outer heliosphere, the expansive, protective bubble formed by a steady stream of particles that release from the sun called the solar wind. Meanwhile, an instrument called the Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation is measuring galactic cosmic rays, extremely fast particles created when stars explode. The particles pose one of the more severe threats for human activities in space, Brandt said, but the boundary of the heliosphere acts as a shield to protect our solar system from 70% of them. New Horizons' data could help scientists learn more about how this puzzling shielding works, he said. Another instrument, the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, has collected data that has thrown New Horizon's team a curveball, Brandt said. The team expected dust abundance to be high within the Kuiper Belt due to the significant presence of small objects. But New Horizons has traveled beyond the known boundary of the Kuiper Belt — and it's still in a dusty environment.

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Michael Barrymore decided to dramatically reset his life this year: moving out of London and reinventing himself professionally as a TIkTok influencer.

There is truth in the idea Burnham's route to Downing Street has seen him embark on a long and winding political journey. But it's not the journey his critics perceive it to be.

At a recent Sandringham parish council meeting one resident raised the issue of vermin in the gardens of the 300 or so rental properties. Pictured: File photo

It comes after fierce debate over the future of two oil and gas fields in Scotland - Rosebank and Jackdaw - where licences were approved in 2022 and 2023 before being overturned last year.

Seven were killed and more than two dozen wounded in a second strike on the warehouse complex of online marketplace Wildberries in the Tambov region.

A medication-free remedy may help stop debilitating migraines that affect roughly 40m Americans, with relief starting immediately, a study showed.

JK Rowling has said she is 'burning with fury' after Amnesty International blacklisted her women's charity in a row over trans rights.

It's got a huge garden, five bedrooms and its very own barn

Jayden Watson, an American tech lobbyist, brushed shoulders with senior Labour ministers, including the PM and the chancellor, at exclusive events.

Shiny shins, as patients often call them, are easy to dismiss. Millions of older Britons have them and assume it's simply what legs look like after 60. But I want you to take them seriously.

In one video, the Albanian hands a wad of £20 notes to his pitbull, Cobra, and a stack of £50 notes to his pug, Mouse.

Pictured here for the first time, Joshua Kerry is accused of targeting the 78-year-old former Tory minister in her Devon home in a suspected terrorist attack.

The game has gone. This is the much-uttered, wearily repetitive response to any development in football, be it technology or the propensity for players to fall as if struck by an invisible hand of God.

Phoebe, 21, moved to New York last year to study and pursue a modelling career. Months later, Tess and Vernon Kay announced they had split after 22 years of marriage.

Thursday the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios filed unfair labor complaints against Microsoft over the layoffs of 1,600 employees. The gaming news site Aftermath says the complaints allege unlawful action: "Xbox management is required to bargain with the union over the decision of layoffs prior to implementing them during the status quo period, and we are pursuing every available avenue to protect our members," a Communications Workers of America spokesperson said in a statement to Aftermath... Speaking to Game Developer, CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth elaborated on the unions' misgivings... "Basically the employer cannot arbitrarily change working conditions while it is engaged in negotiating with the union. We will continue to file legal challenges if necessary, and do all we can to defend the rights of Bethesda Game Studios workers...." "I'm very proud of the hard work the bargaining committees and CWA staff have put in to evaluate the legality of how the layoffs were conducted," a current id Software employee and union member told Aftermath. "It's important, even for the world's largest and most profitable companies, that there are consequences for violating federal labor law. If we hadn't explored this avenue to hold Microsoft accountable, it would be a sign to all other game executives that they can break the law and get away with it." Legal action is just one part of unions' larger effort to hold Microsoft accountable for its decision to lay off thousands of workers. This week, CWA also hosted a series of "Save Our Devs" demonstrations outside the offices of affected studios like Zenimax, id Software, Bethesda, and Obsidian.

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