Crash on B1137 causing traffic delays near major Essex town
Emergency services were called to the scene on the B1137 between Terling Hall Road and Bury Lane shortly after 2pm.
The UK's best B&B revealed - with huge beer garden and award-winning food
The AA has unveiled the winners of its Bed and Breakfast Awards for 2025, recognising the very best places to stay across England, Scotland and Wales.
Six popular Apple devices are now classed as VINTAGE - and may leave users unable to get repairs if they break
The tech giant has added another six products to its official 'vintage' list - most of them not even a decade after their release.
The exact age Gen Z consider you 'old', revealed
A new survey of 2,000 Gen Z and millennials reveals the exact age you're considered 'old' - and it's much younger than you think.
Candy Crush-Maker King Lays Off 200 Staff, Replacing Many With AI Tools They Built
Candy Crush-maker King is cutting approximately 200 employees, with many positions filled by AI tools the departing workers helped develop, according to multiple sources who spoke anonymously to industry publication MobileGamer.biz. The layoffs heavily target level designers, user research staff, and UX and narrative writers across King's London, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Berlin studios.
The London-based Farm Heroes Saga team faces cuts of roughly 50 people, including key leadership positions. "Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they've spent months building tools to craft levels quicker," one staffer said. "Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams."
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Moment van driver ploughs into a cyclist before driving away and claiming he had 'hit a sheep'
This is the moment a van driver ploughed into a cyclist, leaving him with a ruptured spine, broken ribs and internal bleeding, before claiming that he thought 'he hit a sheep'.
Dignity in Dying campaigner Emma Bray dies after vowing to starve herself to death 'to protect her children'
Dignity in Dying campaigner Emma Bray spent her final days in a hospice this summer after voluntarily deciding to stop eating and drinking.
Gay man wins five-figure payout after Church of England gave him 'exorcism' to try and turn him straight
Matthew Drapper, 37, was volunteering at St Thomas Philadelphia, Sheffield, in 2014 when he was told he had come under 'demonic possession' due to his 'sexual impurity'.
Uncomfortable bra saved Essex mum's life after chafing uncovered cancer
An Essex mum says her sports bra has saved her life after chafing revealed a bump in her breast
British backpacker, 25, 'who killed father-of-two by crashing into him on an e-scooter after drinking' appears in court in Australia
Alicia Kemp, 25, from Worcestershire, allegedly struck 51-year-old engineer Thanh Phan while riding a hired e-scooter through Perth's city centre on the night of May 31.
Louis Tomlinson QUITS X due to 'conspiracy chat' about his relationship with Zara McDermott, his son and even his late mother
Louis Tomlinson announced that he was quitting X on Monday due to 'conspiracy chat' about his personal life.
Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories
Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars
Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that’s sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-think models.…
Experts issue urgent warning over Labubu trend
Psychologists are now warning that Labubu toys, the latest collectible craze among Gen Z, could be a sign of deeper emotional struggles, saying the Labubu toy craze is not 'a shallow trend'
Ministers fear there could be riots as British towns with hundreds of Afghan arrivals finally learn WHY
The Ministry of Defence has warned of possible public disorder following the revelations that thousands of Afghans have been quietly slipped into Britain.
Shocking 'truth' about Amelia Earhart and her marriage revealed by explosive new book
A new book has has made disturbing claims about Amelia Earhart's publishing tycoon husband, George Putnam.
Four boys aged 15 are arrested on suspicion of murder after elderly couple, 91 and 88, found dead in house fire
Stan Rickman, 91, and Rona Rickman, 88, were found dead in their home after ablaze in their home in Alton, Hampshire, on April 14.
Alice Evans shares picture of a chessboard with the words 'you lost!' hours after ex Ioan Gruffudd revealed gut-wrenching texts from their daughters amid their venomous split
The venomous war of words has been ongoing since the couple split in 2021 and the Welsh actor, 51, began a relationship with his now-wife Bianca Wallace, 32.
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon
Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley
Updated The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table, as the Department of Defense issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold. …
Microsoft Uses Chinese Engineers To Maintain Defense Department Systems Under Minimal US Oversight
Microsoft employs engineers in China to help maintain Defense Department computer systems, with U.S. citizens serving as "digital escorts" to oversee the foreign workers, according to a ProPublica investigation. The escorts often lack advanced technical expertise to police engineers with far more sophisticated skills, and some are former military personnel paid barely above minimum wage.
"We're trusting that what they're doing isn't malicious, but we really can't tell," one current escort told the publication. The arrangement, critical to Microsoft winning federal cloud computing contracts a decade ago, handles sensitive but unclassified government data including materials that directly support military operations. Former CIA and NSA executive Harry Coker called the system a natural opportunity for spies, saying "If I were an operative, I would look at that as an avenue for extremely valuable access."
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When overnight street lights could be turned in some Essex towns
Castle Point Council is looking to bring back overnight street lighting in the district