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Anthea Prest, 70, and husband defence company boss Nicholas Prest, 71, are accused of safety breaches over the death of gardener Paul Marsden, 47.

Fiona Goddard accused the Home Office of watering down the probe and the government of creating a 'toxic environment' for fellow survivors.

More than 300 officers swooped on 120 premises across the capital suspected of fuelling the UK's shoplifting epidemic by selling products snatched from legitimate stores.

The musical tour will begin in his hometown in Essex

A man understood to be an asylum seeker has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl near an asylum centre in Dublin. 

In an outfit befitting of their dad, Fin, 16, wore a navy crewneck offering a shout-out to The Smiths along with crisp jeans and a leather messenger bag worn across their body.

A crisis meeting was held at the museum after Sunday's seven-minute raid which saw a gang plunder artefacts including an Imperial brooch containing 2,000 diamonds.

SpaceX surpassed the 10,000-satellite milestone for its Starlink constellation after two Falcon 9 launches on Oct. 19 added 56 more satellites to orbit. The company now operates about two-thirds of all active satellites worldwide and continues to break reuse records. Space.com reports: A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink internet satellites lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT; 12:24 p.m. local California time). Those 28 included the 10,000th Starlink spacecraft ever to reach orbit, which a SpaceX employee noted on the company's launch webcast: "From Tintin to 10,000! Go Starlink, go Falcon, go SpaceX!" It was also the 132nd Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, equaling the mark set by the rocket last year -- and there are still nearly 2.5 months to go in 2025. [...] This launch was the second of the day for SpaceX; less than two hours earlier, another Falcon 9 sent 28 more Starlink satellites up from Florida's Space Coast. That earlier liftoff was the 31st for that Falcon 9's first stage, setting a new reuse record.

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Local residents claim they have been repeatedly disturbed by noise from choppers bringing diners and shoppers to the Thornham Deli in the exclusive seaside village of Thornham, Norfolk.

Joseph was doing a refactoring effort, merging some duplicated functions into one, cleaning up unused Java code that really should have been deleted ages ago, and so on. But buried in that pile of code that needed cleaning up, Joseph found this little bit of code, to validate that an input was a percentage.

@Override public Integer validatePercent(final String perc, final int currentPerc){ char[] percProc= perc.toCharArray(); char[] newPerc = new char[perc.length()]; int percent=0; int y=0; if(percProc.length>4){ return -1; } for(int x=0;x<percProc.length;x++){ if(Character.isDigit(percProc[x])){ newPerc[y]=percProc[x]; y++; } } if(y==0){ return -1; } String strPerc=(new String(newPerc)); strPerc=strPerc.trim(); if(strPerc.length()!=0){ percent=Integer.parseInt(strPerc); if(percent<0){ return -1; }else if(percent>100){ return -1; }else if(Integer.parseInt(strPerc)==currentPerc){ return -1; }else{ return Integer.parseInt(strPerc); } }else{ return-1; } }

This validation function takes a string and an integer as an input, and immediately copies the string into an array, and makes a bonus array that's empty to start.

We reject strings longer than 4 characters. Then, we iterate over our input array and check each character; if that character is a digit, we copy it into the newPerc array, otherwise we… don't. If we copied at least one character this way, we continue- otherwise we reject the input.

Which right off the bat, this means that we accept 5, .05 and .0A5.

We take our newPerc array and turn it back into a string, trimming off any whitespace (which I'm fairly certain whitespace isn't a digit, last I checked, so there's nothing to trim).

If the string is greater than 0 characters, we parse it into an integer. If the result is less than zero, we reject it. Fun fact, isDigit also doesn't consider - a digit, so there's no chance we have a negative number here. If it's greater than 100 we reject it. If, when we parse it into an integer a second time, it's equal to the currentPerc input parameter, we also reject it. Otherwise, we return the result of parsing the string into an integer a third time.

So this isn't truly a validate function. It's a parse function. A strange one that doesn't work the way any sane person would want. And most annoying, at least in Java land, is that it handles errors by returning a -1, letting the caller check the return value and decide how to proceed, instead of throwing an exception.

Also, why reject the input if it equals the current value? I'd say that I'll puzzle over that, but the reality is that I won't. It's a stupid choice that I'd rather just not think more about.

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Passengers using rail services across London and Cambridgeshire are being reminded to check before travelling this Christmas due to planned engineering work taking place.

Even A-list celebrities take style cues from the royals! Julia Roberts is the latest star to channel Princess Beatrice, stepping out in her go-to shirt.

Gavin Plumb was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years after a jury found him guilty of soliciting murder and encouraging others to rape and kidnap.

Wayne Eaglen, currently lives in Saxmundham but entered into a contract with the driving school in Woodbridge in 2014.

12 more hours of pain followed initial outage

Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other services to fail.…

New lower speed limits are being introduced

The Prime Minister will head to Belem, a port city known as a gateway to the Amazon rainforest, in November to push forward his Net Zero agenda.

Rebecca Reusch (pictured), 15, from the German capital, disappeared in February 2019 while visiting her sister and brother-in-law at their home in the Britz suburb of the city.

Patricia Krenwinkel was approved for parole in May after 56 years behind bars. However, California Governor Gavin Newsom has reversed the decision, insisting the 77-year-old poses a public safety risk.

HE started his acting career as a schoolboy from Essex, but Rupert Grint has since amassed a staggering fortune estimated at $50 million.