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Brian Buckle spent £500k on a lengthy legal battle which ultimately ended in his release in 2022 after a jury cleared him in just 80 minutes.

TV fans will be pleased to know there is a host of exciting new dramas coming to the BBC in the next few months.

Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'

Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives.…

This postcode argument is a sore subject for many...

The devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN's World Meteorological Organization. From a report: The WMO's report on 2024, the hottest year on record, sets out a trail of destruction from extreme weather that took lives, demolished buildings and ravaged vital crops. More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008. The report lists 151 unprecedented extreme weather events in 2024, meaning they were worse than any ever recorded in the region. Heatwaves in Japan left hundreds of thousands of people struck down by heatstroke. Soaring temperatures during heatwaves peaked at 49.9C at Carnarvon in Western Australia, 49.7C in the city of Tabas in Iran, and 48.5C in a nationwide heatwave in Mali. Record rains in Italy led to floods, landslides and electricity blackouts; torrents destroyed thousands of homes in Senegal; and flash floods in Pakistan and Brazil caused major crop losses. Storms were also supercharged by global heating in 2024, with an unprecedented six typhoons in under a month hitting the Philippines. Hurricane Helene was the strongest ever recorded to strike the Big Bend region of Florida in the US, while Vietnam was hit by Super Typhoon Yagi, affecting 3.6 million people. Many more unprecedented events will have passed unrecorded.

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The Institute, a Grade II listed theatre in Braintree, has been given £1,500 from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme.

Doris Bacon, 91, from Colchester has loved football since she was five years old, playing in the street with friends.

The stark figures were released by the Department for Work & Pensions as part of the Keep Britain Working independent review.

Ryan Reynolds is under fire for attempting to distance himself from the $400 million defamation lawsuit that Justin Baldoni's attorney claims he played a significant role in shaping. 

The actor, 51, who is currently starring in Netflix hit Adolescence, idolised Robert De Niro as a child and had a poster of him from the film Taxi Driver on his wall.

They will l ead efforts to make sure the Army, Navy and Air Force are 'properly equipped to defend Britain'.

Brittany Fortinberry, 31, is facing dozens of charges over the sick allegations made by her friend's son and other accusers.

Footage shared online on Tuesday captured the moment when the frustrated man appeared to aim his whip at the duo while they cowered in the corner of an alleyway in Dublin.

Travelling to a European city and back within 24 hours - without checking into a hotel - may sound completely bonkers, but this is what a new tribe of tourists is doing.

One local politician claimed residents in the area are not happy with the plans

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams splashed down off the coast of Florida on Monday - but some commentators aren't convinced by the footage.

Naomi Davidson, from Derbyshire, showed off the jaw-dropping makeover on the Facebook page DIY On A Budge t, where she also broke down the costs of her project.

Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway

GTC  Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the equipment can keep power consumption down.…

Lady Justice Thirlwall had been asked to temporarily halt her inquiry by lawyers for Letby and the senior managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she murdered her victims.

He had only been released from prison a week before his death