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AFC Bournemouth are investigating allegations surrounding Alex Jimenez after social media messages purporting to be from the defender were sent to a 15-year-old girl.

The man also burgled properties in other counties

Tess Daly and Vernon Kay shocked fans when they announced their split after 23-years of marriage on Friday, but now it seems it was a long time in the making. 

As celebrity couples go, Tess Daly and Vernon Kay were one of the most robust.

Two lanes are closed along the road this morning causing lengthy delays

Nadia, 61, was not on the panel this week - and will not appear next week - after she was accused of sharing 'unhinged' anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on social media.

The cause of the fire is being investigated

A number of crews have tackled a fire at a scrapyard in Upminster which affected a number of vehicles.

A number of crews have tackled a fire at a scrapyard in Upminster which affected a number of vehicles.

An urgent search has been launched for a missing man from Southend.

An urgent search has been launched for a missing man from Southend.

You can imagine my surprise when, after returning to its dock from a mopping session, the vacuum said to me 'I've detected more stains, I'm going back out to clean'. And no, I'm not going mad!

MPs, ministers and unions lined up to call on Sir Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure following humiliating defeats across England, Scotland and Wales.

As Daniel Dubois prepares to step back into the ring on May 9 for his fight with Fabio Wardley, it's clear that his toughest battles may not have been fought inside the ropes, but in the silent corners of his mind.

A statement spark of rouge will brighten any beige corner without dominating your space, says Nicole Gray

A man has ben arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer in Broxbourne and driving without a licence.

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint vibrations of nearby speech, researchers reported this week here at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union. Freely available artificial intelligence (AI) software turned the fiber optic data into intelligible, real-time transcripts. "Not many people realize that [fiber optic cables] can detect acoustic waves," says Jack Lee Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Edinburgh who presented the result. "We show that in almost every case where you use these fibers, this could be a privacy concern." Fiber optics can pick up on sound through a technique called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). Using a machine called an interrogator, researchers fire laser pulses down a cable and record the pattern of reflections coming back from tiny glass defects along the length of the fiber optic. When an earthquake's seismic wave crosses a section of the fiber, it stretches and squeezes the defects, leading to shifts in the reflected light that researchers can use to build a picture of an earthquake. DAS essentially turns a fiber cable into a long chain of seismometers that can detect not only earthquakes, but also the rumblings of volcanoes, cars, and college marching bands. And although scientists set up dedicated fiber lines specifically for research, DAS can also be performed on "dark fiber" -- unused strands in the web of fiber optics that runs through cities and across oceans, carrying the world's internet traffic. DAS can also be used to eavesdrop, the work of Smith and his colleagues shows. They conducted a field test using an existing DAS setup used to study coastal erosion. They set a speaker next to the cable and played pure tones, music, and speech. Human speech contains frequencies ranging from a few hundred to several thousand hertz. The low end of the range could be pulled out of the data "even without any preprocessing," Smith says. "You can easily see acoustic waves." Getting higher frequency speech took a bit of postprocessing, but it was possible. Dumping the data directly into Whisper, a free AI transcription tool, provided accurate real-time transcription. However, this technique worked only for coiled cables, exposed at the surface, at distances of up to 5 meters from the speaker. Burying the cable under just 20 centimeters of dirt was enough to muddy the speech. And straight cables -- even exposed ones right next to the speaker -- did not record speech well.

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A man has ben arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer in Broxbourne and driving without a licence.

Children now have a school they can take pride in, according to inspectors

The average sum paid out for theft claims was 14% higher than last year's average of £3,800, according to the Association of British Insurers.