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She shot to fame in the Nineties as a presenter on Channel 4's late-night series The Girlie Show. 

He returned to Lakeside where he used to work as a delivery driver before winning £5.2 million on the lottery

The actress looked incredible on the outing as she flaunted her hourglass curves in a plunging black dress with a fitted waistline.

Gillian Banks Theatre School had hoped to stage the musical at Rotherham Civic Theatre later this month and had secured permission from the agency that manages the rights to the show.

As part of Trooping the Colour 2026, the Royal Air Force flypast will take place, and will fly over Essex en route to London.

With the new EES system imposed at many airports, here are five Stansted destinations to avoid border control queues.

Plane enthusiasts are expecting to see the King's birthday flypast over Essex this year

There were several more streets across Essex that won in the People's Postcode Lottery last month - were you a winner?

As part of Trooping the Colour 2026, the Royal Air Force flypast will take place, and will fly over Essex en route to London.

With the new EES system imposed at many airports, here are five Stansted destinations to avoid border control queues.

A 34-year-old Colchester dad living with incurable cancer is fundraising to make precious memories with his young family while he battles the illness.

Plane enthusiasts are expecting to see the King's birthday flypast over Essex this year

There were several more streets across Essex that won in the People's Postcode Lottery last month - were you a winner?

The proposals are expected to help address the 'urgent need' for special needs education in the county

"Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine," reports ScienceDaily. "Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evaporate water while automatically moving salt deposits away from the working surface, preventing clogging. The process was successfully tested with water from three oceans and can recover nearly all salts as solids. Those leftover materials could even become a source of valuable lithium for batteries." (The research team was led by University of Rochest professor Chunlei Guo and published their results in the journal Light: Science & Applications.) The University of Rochester has made an announcement: The technology uses solar panels made of black metal etched with femtosecond lasers to make the surface super light-absorbing and superwicking — or extremely attractive to water. The panels have a laser-treated active region that pulls a thin layer of water across the surface, absorbs nearly all solar radiation, distills the water, and deposits the leftover salts and minerals into the panel's untreated sides or "passive" region so that the salt does not clog the active region and disrupt continuous desalination... Guo's team precisely etched the black metal's grooves so the various salts and minerals in ocean water would simply slough off... [I]t extracts nearly 100 percent of the salts in solid form. This could not only produce an abundant supply of table salt, but it could also be used to extract more precious minerals, including lithium, which is used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and other electronics. In a related paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Guo and his colleagues show how they can use the same superwicking solar panels to separate lithium from the rest of other salts in desalination. Embedding nanoparticles made of hydrogen titanate in the tiny grooves of the black metal surface isolates the lithium from other salts and minerals...Using water samples from Great Salt Lake, the researchers extracted about 50 percent of the lithium from the salts left behind by the desalination process. Guo says now that the superwicking desalination technology has been demonstrated in proofs of concept on small-scale devices, he sees the technology inherently scalable, capable of improving global access to drinking water and building more sustainable supply chains for precious minerals. "The National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Worldwide Universities Network supported this research."

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A regional radio executive has been stood down after groping an employee on stage at the Australian Audio Awards last week.

Take one look at the NHS nurse fiancée of Princess Anne's son, and it's not difficult to understand why she'll be a celebrated new arrival for Kate.

Threads on a half shell, Intel power!

The British rocker was last pictured leaving WeHo hotspot Craig's on Wednesday night while all smiles

ScienceAlert reports: In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth's magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it... [I]t seemed to have a large, wave-like structure — as though a chunk of molten core material suddenly thought better of where it wanted to go, surging in the other direction... This finding suggests that there are processes that can influence it strongly enough to alter its behavior in bulk — and that our planet's interior may be more dynamic and variable than we thought. A new analysis captures what we know so far — and "It's from the roiling, molten, conducting metal at Earth's heart that the planetary magnetic field is generated... vital to our continued existence. It helps keep the atmosphere we breathe in and harmful cosmic radiation out."

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