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Lee Sopp (pictured) fatally wounded Mohamud Hashi, who was known as Snoop, to protect his 'turf' from Somalis in Milton Keynes.

Writing for AirMail, Sam Wesson revealed his friend American author Bruce Wagner had been told by his editor that there was an issue with a 500lb character in his new novel describing herself as 'fat'.

Online retailer ASOS, asked Facebook users for their opinion on the addition of a button to disguise orders as 'prizes' to sneak past disapproving members of their household.

Singer Don McLean has revealed his anthem to 'the day the music died', American Pie, may have also been about the untimely passing of his father who had Scottish roots.

PINK Prosecco say they've had so many enquiries they've even had to create a waiting list for customers, while more than 370,000 enthusiasts have liked the drink's Facebook page.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about their handling of a recent unverified New York Post article about former Vice President Joe Biden's son. From a report: Twelve Republicans on the committee voted to authorize the subpoenas and ten Democrats sat out the markup in a protest of the session's earlier vote on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Zuckerberg and Dorsey are already set to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee next week alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai about alleged bias and privacy matters. The Judiciary Committee voted to compel the Facebook and Twitter CEOs to testify about their "suppression and/or censorship" of two recent New York Post articles involving unverified allegations about emails supposedly taken from a computer belonging to the Democratic presidential nominee's son, Hunter Biden. The initial story alleged the younger Biden attempted to introduce a top executive at a Ukraine company he worked for to his father while he was serving as VP. The Democratic nominee has called the story a "smear." Facebook and Twitter took very different approaches to moderating the article, which contained unredacted email addresses in documents included in the story.

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The Loose Women panel clashed as they debated whether it was appropriate to smack children, with singer Brenda Edwards, 51, from London, arguing 'a little tiny smack doesn't do any harm.'

Open source observability for debugging and tracing

The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification.…

Loose Women viewers were blown away today and said they were 'gasping with excitement' after 'history was made' with four black presenters joined the panel for this morning's debates.

A social media cleaning sensation has hit back at 'online bullies'.

A social media cleaning sensation has hit back at 'online bullies'.

TESCO has doubled the cost of its plastic bags, leaving shoppers feeling annoyed.

TESCO has doubled the cost of its plastic bags, leaving shoppers feeling annoyed.

Pupils from St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton, were waiting for their parents yesterday. The group were approached by PCSOs who said they were 'slow to disperse'.

There will be more support for businesses and the self-employed in the coming months

The 'hero' was filmed footing the £50 bill for the 'distressed' mother-of-three at Ibiza Airport, after staff deemed her bag too big to be carried on board.

PD Dean Williams made the gruesome discovery after James White allegedly battered Paul Flory in Harefield, west London. Pictured, Crystal Culhane accused of luring Mr Flory to the address.

The zoo have said they cannot continue with out visitor support

No, he's not dragging his cool vintage steamer-style suitcase onto an IKEA armchair in a host villa ... it's a 'special' design relationship

Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom has inked a deal with the app-that-takes-a-cut-of-users'-holiday-rentals Airbnb in a multi-year “special relationship,” the short-term gig economy rental platform said today.…

A fortnight's worth of rain fell in three hours on Wednesday as the Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for downpours across the south coast, the Midlands, London and East Anglia.