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Campaigners have been lobbying for the stoves to be banned from built-up areas by citing claims they presented a bigger problem than car exhausts.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has taken a savage swipe at his former panelists Len Goodman and Arlene Phillips .

Protestors took to the streets on Saturday to protest President Trump and his 'First Buddy,' Elon Musk, but Trump had other plans.

Berkeley, California is "the latest city to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents," reports the Associated Press (noting that officials in many cities claim the practice is driving up the price of housing). But then real estate software company RealPage filed a federal lawsuit against Berkeley on Wednesday: Texas-based RealPage said Berkeley's ordinance, which goes into effect this month, violates the company's free speech rights and is the result of an "intentional campaign of misinformation and often-repeated false claims" about its products. The U.S. Department of Justice sued Realpage in August under former President Joe Biden, saying its algorithm combines confidential information from each real estate management company in ways that enable landlords to align prices and avoid competition that would otherwise push down rents. That amounts to cartel-like illegal price collusion, prosecutors said. RealPage's clients include huge landlords who collectively oversee millions of units across the U.S. In the lawsuit, the Department of Justice pointed to RealPage executives' own words about how their product maximizes prices for landlords. One executive said, "There is greater good in everybody succeeding versus essentially trying to compete against one another in a way that actually keeps the entire industry down." San Francisco, Philadelphia and Minneapolis have since passed ordinances restricting landlords from using rental algorithms. The Department of Justice case remains ongoing, as do lawsuits against RealPage brought by tenants and the attorneys general of Arizona and Washington, D.C... [On a conference call, RealPage attorney Stephen Weissman told reporters] RealPage officials were never given an opportunity to present their arguments to the Berkeley City Council before the ordinance was passed and said the company is considering legal action against other cities that have passed similar policies, including San Francisco. RealPage blames high rents not on the software they make, but on a lack of housing supply...

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Escalating debts from health tourists - who have had everything from spinal surgery to heart care and cancer treatment - is creating a growing black hole in NHS finances.

The former TOWIE star, 33 and ex footballer, 45, are said to be 'seriously considering' relocating with their children and have already began looking at swanky properties and schools in the area.

Illegal products can often contain nicotine levels higher than the UK legal limit and may harbour cancer-causing chemicals.

Jennifer Melle, 40, was previously investigated and disciplined by NHS bosses despite being called the N-word three times by the patient, a convicted sex offender

Keir Starmer's unlikely bromance with the hero of the MAGA movement is bearing fruit, and not ust on the issue of tariffs, writes DAN HODGES.

Dan Norris, who ousted Jacob Rees-Mogg as the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home

In Love Actually, Grant's PM turns on an arrogant US president during a press conference to say the so-called special relationship has become 'a bad relationship'.

The sum written-off could pay for 8,500 new nurses or almost 3,000 GPs. Or it could fund 15,000 kidney transplants.

Graeme Binning and deputy Jim McNeil were asked to step away from their duties last month after at least five senior employees took sick leave at the same time.

Researchers say that the popularity of UK TV shows such as Love Island and Adolescence among Gen Z - those aged 13 to 28 - has seen an explosion in the use of casual British English.

The Mail on Sunday has been told that producers are looking at Four Seasons hotels in Africa and Australia - with Marrakech in Morocco as the front-runner.

Last month, the Daily Mail revealed that diversity-hiring practices had contributed to a 30 per cent shortfall in pilots at the ranks of flight lieutenant and squadron leader in the RAF.

Over on Reddit's "selfhosted" subreddit for alternatives to popular services, long-time Slashdot reader Zoup described a pain point: - Landlock is a Linux Security Module (LSM) that lets unprivileged processes restrict themselves. - It's been in the kernel since 5.13, but the API is awkward to use directly. - It always annoyed the hell out of me to run random binaries from the internet without any real control over what they can access. So they've rolled their own solution, according to Thursday's submission to Slashdot: I just released Landrun, a Go-based CLI tool that wraps Linux Landlock (5.13+) to sandbox any process without root, containers, or seccomp. Think firejail, but minimal and kernel-native. Supports fine-grained file access (ro/rw/exec) and TCP port restrictions (6.7+). No daemons, no YAML, just flags. Example (where --rox allows read-only access with execution to specified path): # landrun --rox /usr touch /tmp/filetouch: cannot touch '/tmp/file': Permission denied# landrun --rox /usr --rw /tmp touch /tmp/file# It's MIT-licensed, easy to audit, and now supports systemd services.

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Fears for Justin's wellbeing have escalated in recent months, with the pop star looking hollow-eyed and disheveled in public and sharing a string of concerning posts on social media.

A survey of 254 companies representing more than 260,000 employees found that 46 per cent said they would curtail their hiring as a result of the rise

Rose, a senior at Ida B. Wells High School, won with a height of 4-foot 8-inches and beat her nearest competitor Addyson Skyles by a huge two inches.