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Drivers are planning nearly 14million journeys between today and Thursday as the school holidays begin, according to the RAC - with most pupils in England breaking up tomorrow.

UK-based TikTokker Sara-Jane, who lost three stone and three pounds in just five months went viral for her hilariously savage take on what it feels like to shed weight on Mounjaro.

When she was 14, Lottie Mears got her first ever boyfriend.

Alan Dershowitz said that Maxwell should have her 20 year sentence commuted as he waded into the controversy around Epstein's alleged client-list.

Princess Beatrice wore a khaki utility jacket from H&M paired with relaxed denim joggers as the couple posed on the beach - the ultimate laid-back summer look.

Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers'

Updated  A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory in bringing lower prices and more flexibility in deploying Microsoft software on their infrastructure, though the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has blasted it as a "stalling tactic" by the software giant.…

And we’re the ones building it

Comment  A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're perfectly able and willing to surveil ourselves.…

Margot Robbie is having the time of her life while enjoying her Euro summer in Italy.

The series was created by Roy Clarke, who is the writer behind other legendary English comedies including Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine.

A yellow weather warning has been announced

It's an age old question: why is mashed potato always so much better when the experts make it?

The frontman had some words of warning for fans during the show at he Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.

Homeowners this week said they have sold up or are planning to do so after spending months or years trying to remove illegal occupiers with 'no help' from police.

Craig MacPherson, 54, insists the vermin have moved into the buildings and surrounding areas in Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 'large numbers'.

Anthony Zecca was accidentally shot and killed by his own father, Gregory Zecca, at their apartment in Naples, FL on Saturday night

Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed she left the US because of President Trump in a candid new interview.

Coming off the back of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's no-holds-barred interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, the book was billed as a fresh attack on the Royal Family.

Arteta insisted that club '100 per cent' followed the 'right processes' amid widespread criticism following the revelation that complaints were made about the midfielder.

At the age of 65, I have reached crunch point. I'm sick of weird diets and I'm seriously fed up with feeling hungry. I'm also really hacked off at still being fat

One in every 9 Americans lives in California. And right now its Congress is debating a bill that "would help establish a regional electricity market capable of tying together the American West's three dozen independent power grids," according to the Los Angeles Times' newsletter about climate change and energy issues. But that bill "has bitterly divided environmentalists," with some seeing it "as a plot by greedy energy companies to enrich themselves." Supporters say it would smooth the flow of solar and wind power from the sunny, windy landscapes where they're produced most cheaply to the cities where they're most needed. It would help California keep the lights on without fossil fuels, and without driving up utility bills... [S]olar and wind power are still cheaper than planet-warming coal and fossil gas. Which is why Michael Wara, a Stanford energy and climate scholar, isn't worried that SB 540 will leave Californians drowning in dirty power. In a regional market, solar and wind will usually outcompete coal and gas. "Any energy source that requires fuel to operate is more expensive than an energy source that doesn't," he said. California also needs to prove that a grid powered entirely by clean energy is affordable and reliable. The state's rising electric rates are already a big concern. And although the grid has been stable the last few years, thanks to batteries that store solar for after dark, keeping the lights on with more and more renewables might get harder. Regional market advocates make a strong case that interstate cooperation would help. For instance, a market would help California more smoothly access Pacific Northwest hydropower, already a key energy source during heat waves. It would also give California easier access to low-cost winds from New Mexico and Wyoming. Best of all, that wind is often blowing strong just as the sun sets along the Pacific. Another benefit: Right now, California often generates more solar than it can use during certain hours of the day, forcing solar farms to shut down — or pay other states to take the extra power. With a regional market, California could sell excess solar to other states, keeping utility bills down. "This is about lowering costs," said Robin Everett, deputy director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. "Unlike with past regional market proposals, California would retain control of its grid operator, with only a few functions delegated to a regional entity," the article points out. But opponents still worry this would give new powers to an outside-of-California group to thwart clean energy progress (if not gouge customers). Amendments passed this week add a "Regional Energy Markets Oversight Council" to address that concern — but which lost support for the bill from some of its earlier supporters. "The amendments would make it easier for the Golden State to bail," notes the climate newsletter, and "Out-of-state utilities don't want to waste time and money committing themselves to a California-led market only to lose California, and thus many of the economic benefits..."

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