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A road close to Epsom town centre, Surrey, has been cordoned off by police following the attack. Surrey Police officers and forensic teams were in Church Street on September 20.

Storm Aiden will be named by the Met Office if the torment hitting from Tuesday has potential for amber warnings.

The car failed to stop after hitting the cyclist

The Good Morning Britain host, 49, revealed that she's battle with anxiety and frightening nightmares since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nick Barrit, now 66, was 24 in March 1979 when he bumped into Nilsen on the platform at Waterloo train station. He'd missed the last train home and Nilsen offered to take him for dinner.

The Government said that as of 9am on Sunday, there had been a further 3,899 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.

The Government said that as of 9am on Sunday, there had been a further 3,899 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.

"A successful basic-income trial in Stockton, California, has inspired a chain of similar pilots in other cities," reports Business Insider: The city council of Saint Paul, Minnesota, voted to approve funding for a pilot there on Wednesday. The program is set to begin this fall and will give up to 150 low-income families $500 per month for up to 18 months — no strings attached... "I think there's a budding realization that not only is this a good thing for us to try, but that we may not have any other option," St. Paul mayor Melvin Carter said on a Wednesday press call... "We're obviously seeing an unprecedented crisis in our communities across our country," Carter said. "We're coming to a recognition that we don't have a funding problem. We have a priorities problem." Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was donating $3 million to a coalition of "Mayors for a Guaranteed Income." The group currently has 25 mayors -- two who are already overseeing pilot programs in their own cities -- while Chicago, Newark, and Atlanta "have created task forces to help design their programs," and the mayor of Pittsburgh would like to launch one of their own by the end of the year. In another article, Business Insider created a map showing the locations of 48 basic income programs that have happened around the world (based on data from the Stanford Basic Income Lab). But they also provide this summary of their current state: So is basic income the real deal or a pipe dream? The results are still unclear. Some, like the initial pilots for Uganda's Eight program, were found to result in significant multipliers on economic activity and well-being. Other programs, however, returned mixed results that made further experimentation difficult. Finland's highly-touted pilot program decreased stress levels of recipients across the board, but didn't positively impact work activity. The biggest difficulty has been in keeping programs going and securing funding. Ontario's three-year projects were prematurely cancelled in 2018 before they could be completed and assessed, and the next stages of Finland's program are in limbo. Likewise in the U.S., start-up incubator Y Combinator has been planning a $60M basic income study program, but can't proceed until funding is secured.

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The 63-year-old presented Premier League coverage for the broadcaster for two decades before quitting in disgrace nine years ago. He is now using the term 'smash it' on Cameo to flog personalised videos.

A number of other pubs face threats of closure if they don't follow coronavirus regulations

Figures from the corporation's annual report showed that BBC Scotland costs 41p for each hour watched, that compares unfavourably to BBC One which costs 7p per user.

Holiday firm Butlin's is currently operating at half of its usual capacity and hasn't made a decision about workers on the government's Job Retention Scheme.

Owners of up to 1.5 million high-rise flats could have to wait as long as a decade to get sign-off to prove they are safe in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Emily Padfield, 37, and her partner Mark Warner, 53, from Warwickshire, competed on a BBC reality TV show to win the home in Alaska, but former owner Duane Ose, 78, has now said he wants it back.

Donald Trump said last week that it was a 'beautiful thing' when MSNBC journalist Ali Velshi was struck by a rubber bullet during a protest in Minnesota after the death of George Floyd.

Lady Swire describes Michael Gove as 'bonkers' in her book and has now said she believes he is 'dangerous' and 'dishonest with his ambition' in an interview ahead of the release of her memoirs.

A new product wants to upgrade the act of taking notes in a spiral-bound notebook — with the resuable "Rocketbook Wave Smart Notebook": You can write on it using any Pilot Frixion pen, marker, or highlighter, and once you're done, you can scan the notes, doodles, and drawings into the Rocketbook app to store them in a cloud. Used up all of its pages? No problem. Make sure you've scanned all your notes, and then throw your notebook into the microwave. Yes, the microwave. Throwing it into the microwave will erase everything you've written from the notebook. To avoid getting into the science of it, let's just call it magic. The notebook's pages are designed with grids, so it's perfect for either writing or drawing, and they actually feel like real paper, so you'll still feel the joy of handwriting. That's really a thing. Ask anyone who journals. Inside the app, you can use the smart search to quickly find something in your notes, according to date or a search term.

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A flood alert remains in force

During an interview on Radio 4, Evaristo recalled how as a child growing up in the 60s and 70s she would deliberately cross the road to avoid being seen with her 'very dark-skinned' father.

Health authorities today said there had been 12 fatalities in England, but none in Scotland or Wales. The figures for Northern Ireland have not yet been released.