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The owners of secret hairdressers erected the large outbuilding, overlooking a swimming pool, back in 2011 and did not tell the council.

The actress's famous family also includes a mother who has featured in Coronation Street for almost 40 years, a father who has written Emmerdale episodes and a TV star grandmother.

ZDNET's senior editor sees an "overwhelmingly negative" response to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, "they made it a 30% price increase" — going from $10 a month to $13 a month — "and blamed it all on artificial intelligence." Bad idea. Why? Because... No one wants to pay for AI... If you ask Copilot in Word to write something for you, the results will be about what you'd expect from an enthusiastic summer intern. You might fare better if you ask Copilot to turn a folder full of photos into a PowerPoint presentation. But is that task really such a challenge...? The announcement was bungled, too... I learned about the new price thanks to a pop-up message on my Android phone... It could be worse, I suppose. Just ask the French and Spanish subscribers who got a similar pop-up message telling them their price had gone from €10 a month to €13,000. (Those pesky decimals.) Oh, and I've lost count of the number of people who were baffled and angry that Microsoft had forcibly installed the Copilot app on their devices. It was just a rebranding of the old Microsoft 365 app with the new name and logo, but in my case it was days later before I received yet another pop-up message telling me about the change... [T]hey turned the feature on for everyone and gave Word users a well-hidden checkbox that reads Enable Copilot. The feature is on by default, so you have to clear the checkbox to make it go away. As for the other Office apps? "Uh, we'll get around to giving you a button to turn it off next month. Maybe." Seriously, the support page that explains where you can find that box in Word says, "We're working on adding the Enable Copilot checkbox to Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint on Windows devices and to Excel and PowerPoint on Mac devices. That is tentatively scheduled to happen in February 2025." Until the Enable Copilot button is available, you can't disable Copilot. ZDNET's senior editor concludes it's a naked grab for cash, adding "I could plug the numbers into Excel and tell you about it, but let's have Copilot explain instead." Prompt: If I have 84 million subscribers who pay me $10 a month, and I increase their monthly fee by $3 a month each, how much extra revenue will I make each year? Copilot describes the calculation, concluding with "You would make an additional $3.024 billion per year from this fee increase." Copilot then posts two emojis — a bag of money, and a stock chart with the line going up.

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Alex Beresford and his pregnant wife Imogen looked happier than ever as they posed for sweet snaps at their baby shower.

SNP membership has plunged to its lowest in a decade after 65,000 supporters abandoned the party, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The last reported sighting of Chloe Ellis was at around 8.25am on Thursday January 23, in the Deans area of Livingston, Scotland.

Former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson, from Brentwood, shared new details about her pregnancy with fans, and revealed she and boyfriend Zion Foster were surprised to learn they were expecting twins

X Factor star Cher Lloyd appears to hit out at Simon Cowell in her latest single, Head Down, in which she sings 'You sold me the dream, I was just seventeen, chewed me up, spit me out'.

THEY say it's not what you know, but who you know - and when it comes to fame, family connections are often what really count.

2021: "Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup" 2025: Canoo "Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas" "Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo's rate of cash burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over $300 million..." reports AutoWeek. "It was able to deliver small batches of vans to a few customers, but apparently remained distant from anything approaching volume production." "Back in 2020, electric vehicle maker Canoo snagged a $2.4 billion valuation before it had shipped a single car," remembers SFGate. "Now, just months after yanking its headquarters from Los Angeles County to Texas, the company has gone belly-up." In its four-year span as a public company, Canoo battled investor lawsuits, Securities and Exchange Commission charges, executive departures and a mixed reception of its cars. Auto tech blogger Steven Symes recently likened Canoo's cargo-style van to an "eraser on wheels." "Canoo is the latest EV startup to go bankrupt after merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) as a shortcut to going public," notes TechCrunch. "Electric Last Mile Solutions was the first in June 2022. But since then, Fisker, Lordstown Motors, Proterra, Lion Electric, and Arrival all filed for different levels of bankruptcy protection in their various home countries." In the years since it went public, [Canoo] made a small number of its bubbly electric vans and handed them over to partners — some paying — willing to trial the vehicles. The U.S. Postal Service, Department of Defense, and NASA all have or had Canoo vehicles.

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The worrying spike in bird flu cases has led to decision to enforce the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) as keepers will be required to implement extra hygiene measures.

EXCL: A Place in the Sun presenter Laura Hamilton, who helps Brits find their dream home abroad, branded Sanchez's plan 'crazy' - but said it was already backfiring for the Spanish PM.

An internal job advert for the deputy chair of HMRC's LGBT+ staff network states the successful applicant will be able to dedicate 20 per cent of their week to the group

Officers cut their way into the garage after investigating the theft of a BMW

EXCLUSIVE: The forum, which started on Monday, has welcomed more than 3,000 business and political leaders to the Swiss Alps for talks.

TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So "Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online." The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews "listed an iPhone 14 Plus with TikTok for $10,000. As of Friday, Matthews said his highest bid was for $4,550." Another example from The New York Times: An information technology engineer, Mr. Gustab listed his iPhone 15 Pro with TikTok downloaded onto it for $3,000 on Facebook Marketplace. That's about three times the cost of a brand-new iPhone 16 Pro. On Thursday night, he had an offer for $1,200, still more than almost every brand-new iPhone and nearly twice as much as a refurbished iPhone 15 Pro without TikTok. Business Insider reports the search term iPhone TikTok "yielded more than 45,000 results" on eBay...

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TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So "Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online." The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews "listed an iPhone 14 Plus with TikTok for $10,000. As of Friday, Matthews said his highest bid was for $4,550." Another example from The New York Times: An information technology engineer, Mr. Gustab listed his iPhone 15 Pro with TikTok downloaded onto it for $3,000 on Facebook Marketplace. That's about three times the cost of a brand-new iPhone 16 Pro. On Thursday night, he had an offer for $1,200, still more than almost every brand-new iPhone and nearly twice as much as a refurbished iPhone 15 Pro without TikTok. Business Insider reports the search term iPhone TikTok "yielded more than 45,000 results" on eBay...

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The last time Caroline Darian saw her father, he was sitting behind a glass screen in a court room. The four-month trial was coming to a close. 'I still feel anger,' she says.

She became one of the most iconic figures in the movement

Cynthia spoke about the exact moment she found out she was nominated for the award for Best Actress at the upcoming Oscars ceremony at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.