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David Lammy gave the Prime Minister the phone number of a fraudster pretending to be Donald Trump's chief-of-staff, it has emerged.

The nutrient, which is found in tuna, bananas and chickpeas, is believed to boost the production of chemical messengers found in the brain that are linked to a person's mood.

Cyclists have killed or injured a record number of pedestrians according to the latest government data. A total of 234 walkers were either killed or seriously hurt by cyclists last year.

"It began life just a year after SimCity 4's 2003 launch," writes the blog PCGamesN. "Now, over 20 years later, it's still going strong with the arrival of Network Addon Mod update 50." The SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod, or simply 'NAM' among the community, has long been a de facto recommendation to anyone looking to pick up the classic city builder. It's a comprehensive overhaul to the game's transportation and infrastructure networks that combines key fixes with a vast set of additional build pieces such as overpasses, intersections, on-ramps, roundabouts, and so on.... [Y]ou'll be able to place down elements adjacent to one another that might previously have needed a one-tile gap between them. Streets can be dragged diagonally, slope tolerances have been improved, and you can build tunnels with the street network. The new version also includes a fix for the 'Eternal Commuter Loop' bug, which might sound fairly innocuous if you're not deep in the weeds. In actuality, it's a 23-year-long frustration that has plagued modders ever since launch. Essentially, it's a problem with the regional pathfinding across city boundaries in certain layouts, causing your Sims to bounce from location to location in search of work without actually taking up a job in any of them. Your zone demand is ruined, traffic builds to unsustainable levels, and the economy falls to pieces before your very eyes. Until now, the only real solution was to simply avoid building layouts that gave your commuters the chance to loop between locations. Now, by blocking specific neighbor-to-neighbor routes while allowing the rest to run as normal, the problem has been resolved... Equally impressively, the mandatory implementation of the DLL has reduced the size of the NAM codebase "by almost 90% and by more than ten million lines, making it easier to maintain and reducing the chance of bugs." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Striek for sharing the news.

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Brendan Cole is a New Zealand ballroom dancer, famous for appearing on BBC TV's Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 to 2017.

Red wine is proving less of a hit with today's younger drinkers, who struggle with its dry, bitter taste. Now, experts have come up with a controversial solution - making it sweeter to appeal to Gen Z.

Trade talks between the countries collapsed this week, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney withdrew from negotiations hours before Trump's 50 per cent tariffs were due to kick in.

It was the second Ozon online marketplace struck in two days as Vladimir Putin admitted Kyiv was damaging his economy with its latest onslaught.

Foreign affairs select committee chairman Dame Emily Thornberry said the family 'deserved to be safe'. But Labour peer Lord Foulkes argued their security was a 'private matter'.

She now has four children of her own and three foster children

Andy Burnham insisted last month that he would 'find a way' of staying in the stands to be 'true to his instincts' and keep in touch with ordinary people.

Molly Smith and Tom Clare tied the knot in Mallorca over the weekend and the nuptials were attended by a sea of their Love Island pals who partied into the night.

In which more disaster strikes. Plus, a tip on giving up alcohol

The Sussexes are days away from a stunning return to Britain after six years in the US, but the motivation behind their sudden change of heart remains unclear.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS: Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group. The PhD is aiming to build an all-encompassing platform that can take a C repository running into hundreds of thousands of lines and translate it into Rust that's "safe, behaviourally correct and maintainable Rust." The work will be carried out by a student, Alex Wood, who will be supported by Professor Meng Wang leading the work, with Dr. Cristina David and Canonical's Jon Seager serving as co-supervisors.

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The comic, 45, who appeared on the ITV show in 2020, was enjoying a family holiday in Wales with his wife and two children when he suddenly became 'seriously ill'.

At 31, Abi Hookway found herself newly divorced, supporting two young children, and burdened with £24,000 of credit card debt. Today, she's a multi-millionaire property investor and entrepreneur.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal the Prime Minister has not declared that he benefitted from an exclusive VIP party in June last year as Mayor of Manchester.

The largesse is the latest sign of runaway pay at the top of the BBC, where a record 130 executives now earn more than £178,000 a year.

S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work