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Braintree residents have called for an empty building to become something bringing life to the town centre after a shopping outlet closed.

Samantha Mitchell, 29, was found unresponsive by a relative at her home address in Beckers Green Road, Braintree, in September last year.

Being surrounded by a group of cheerful animals who are free to move in their own space is an experience everyone should have.

Stansted Airport partners with Essex Wildlife Trust to boost biodiversity, backing Manchester Airports Group’s sustainability and local wildlife conservation.

Experts at The Times have revealed their picks for the 20 best spring walks across the British countryside, including one in Essex.

A fuel leak forced a passenger jet to divert to Stansted Airport, and has since prompted safety concerns as the Air Accidents Investigation Branch find the pilots increased fire risk.

Experts at The Times have revealed their picks for the 20 best spring walks across the British countryside, including one in Essex.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: As the Trump administration seeks to fill a national shortage of air traffic controllers, officials are targeting a new talent pool: gamers. The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday is making a recruiting push aimed at avid players of video games, as the agency strives to fill thousands of vacancies that lawmakers have said leave the traveling public less safe. In a new YouTube ad, the agency is using flashy graphics and the promise of six-figure salaries to convince video game enthusiasts to apply their trigger fingers in service of air safety. In recent years, video gamers have emerged as a target demographic for recruiters at a number of federal agencies, including the military and the Department of Homeland Security. They are welcomed for their hand-eye coordination, quick decision-making in complex environments and ability to remain focused on screens for hours on end. "To reach the next generation of air traffic controllers, we need to adapt," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. Focusing recruiting efforts on gamers, he added, "taps into a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller." [...] The F.A.A. plans to begin prioritizing recruiting gamers over more traditional avenues like college fairs, officials said, pointing out that only 25 percent of controllers have a traditional college degree, while the vast majority appear to have logged hours gaming. During the presidential transition in 2024, incoming Trump administration officials polled about 250 new air traffic academy graduates over six weeks. Only two of those interviewed were not gamers, according to F.A.A. officials [...]. Students who failed out of the training academy were not similarly queried, officials said, though they have plans to conduct more comprehensive exit interviews in the future. Still, the overwhelming presence of gaming habits among graduates tracked with what they were hearing anecdotally from controllers already certified to work in towers and other air traffic facilities, the officials said, many of whom liked to play video games during breaks in their shifts.

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The president congratulated the four-person crew, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

The Britain's Got Talent star, 55, posed in a skimpy coral bikini from Melissa Odabash as she topped up her tan in a selection of snaps on Instagram.

The San Francisco Police Department said an unidentified man threw the fire bomb at Sam Altman's home just after 4am PST.

The one-acre field in an area of outstanding natural beauty had a reserve price of £60,000 and attracted a flurry of bids, eventually going under the hammer for £167,000.

Denise Fergus , whose two-year-old son was tortured and killed by John Venables and his accomplice Robert Thompson, said James Bulger's gravestone had been vandalised yet again.

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NASA's Artemis II crew safely splashed down off the California coast after completing a 10-day trip around the moon and back. "This is not just an accomplishment for NASA," sad NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. "This is an accomplishment for humanity, again, a historic mission to the moon and back." From a report: Isaacman is aboard the USS John. P Murtha Navy recovery vessel, where the astronauts will be brought once they've been retrieved from the Orion capsule, and he shared "there is a lot to celebrate right now on on a mission well accomplished for Artemis II." Isaacman also complimented the crew as "absolutely professional astronauts, wonderful communicators and almost poets" "" as well as "ambassadors from humanity to the stars." "I can't imagine a better crew than the Artemis II crew that just completed a perfect mission right now. We are back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon and bringing them back safely. This is just the beginning. We are going to get back into doing this with frequency, sending missions to the moon until we land on it in 2028 and start building our base." Isaacman also said it's time to start preparing for Artemis III, expected to launch in 2027. You can watch the moment of the splashdown here.

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The singer, 34, revealed in January her now nine-month-old twins, Ocean and Story, had been diagnosed with SMA Type 1, a rare muscle-wasting condition.

The President spoke as Vance flew out Friday alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to attempt to find a permanent end to the war that began on February 28.

The two teenagers in the blue car were declared dead at the scene, while four people who were travelling in the minibus were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Deniz Mehmet, 28. from Aveley, Essex, was arrested on Wednesday and the following day was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.