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TfL will trial a new type of radar-based speed camera across ten sites in London, before deploying them more widely across the city, it said on Tuesday.

Romanians reportedly claim more than four times as many £13,000 loans as any other nationality and come in second to the 1.1million Brits who have taken on student debt to go to university.

Members of the trade union have staged year-long industrial action in Birmingham, leading to rubbish piling up on the streets of England's second city.

Gemma Germeney, 31, died in a fire alongside her eight-year-old daughter, Lilly Peden, and her four-year-old son, Oliver Peden, at a flat in Sackville Close in Cambridge .

Travelodge CEO Jo Boydell has issued an apology to the victim, adding that the chain 'got things wrong'. The hotel company has now changed its policy.

Alfie Lovett, 17, who had become a father only 12 weeks earlier, died when Mia Howarth, then 18, crashed near Brimham Rocks in North Yorkshire,

The sauna, ice bath and hot tub are replacing the garden room that the middle classes have been so fond of - fuelled by famous faces showing off their own spa-dens.

Gemma O'Neill has been busily promoting a three-day event in Sydney where women pay £1,705 for a 'VIP experience' including a picture with the Duchess of Sussex over dinner.

Each day of the week will be progressively warmer in the UK after highs of 13C (55F) yesterday, with 15C (59F) expected today then 19C (66F) or 20C (68F) tomorrow and Thursday.

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In the Maldon district, the Heybridge Flood Alleviation Scheme, at risk of river flooding, has been given £507,000.

In the Maldon district, the Heybridge Flood Alleviation Scheme, at risk of river flooding, has been given £507,000.

While living in Dublin, I discovered that there is one measure, above all else, by which most Irish judge a pub: the Guinness. After ten years of searching for Britain's best pint, here's my list.

An international team of researchers traced the connection between a massive surge of dengue fever in Peru in 2023 and a cyclone which hit the region that year.

Noting the nuisance to residents, one Londoner wrote on Threads: 'Every spring, this cherry blossom house in London goes viral.'

The Chancellor will rank closer ties with Brussels alongside artificial intelligence and regional growth as the three best ways to boost the economy over the next decade.

Historic Grade II* Stebbing Park manor house for sale in Essex with 12 acres, seven bedrooms, barns, cottage, and Norman motte castle

Historic Grade II* Stebbing Park manor house for sale in Essex with 12 acres, seven bedrooms, barns, cottage, and Norman motte castle

Samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five nucleobases -- the key building blocks of DNA and RNA. "This strengthens the idea that asteroids may have brought the ingredients for the first living organisms to Earth long ago," reports New Scientist. From the report: Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft visited Ryugu in 2018, where it shot two projectiles -- one small and one large -- into the surface of the asteroid and collected the resulting debris. It arrived back at Earth with the samples in 2020 and researchers have been analyzing these in detail ever since. Yasuhiro Oba at Hokkaido University in Japan and his colleagues examined two samples, one from the asteroid's surface and one comprised of subsurface materials excavated by the projectiles. In both, the team found all five primary nucleobases, which are the compounds that make up the nucleic acids DNA and RNA when combined with sugars and phosphoric acid. This isn't the first time that nucleobases have been found in asteroid samples: they have been seen in meteorites, too, and in samples from the asteroid Bennu. The researchers did find different abundances of the various nucleobases among the various samples, though, which hints that these compounds might be useful for tracing asteroids and meteorites back to the parent bodies that they broke off from in the distant past, as well as understanding the evolution of those parent bodies over time. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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The empty cinema building has marked the town centre's decline for years