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Here are some of the most notable road closures in the coming weeks across north and mid Essex.

Here are some of the most notable road closures in the coming weeks across north and mid Essex.

Two tonnes of flour and three tonnes of apples were used to make the nearly 9,000 strudels in the small village of Jaskovo, Strudelfest organisers said.

The 56-year-old songstress - who recently gave fans a rare glimpse at her $18 million mansion - stopped by Balenciaga in Beverly Hills with Samuel, 13, for the lowkey excursion.

The British Horse Society has become the latest organisation to say 'neigh' to its members using the words 'mother' or 'father' - and say 'parents' or 'caregivers' instead.

The musician and presenter, 47, who hosts a three-hour radio show at the station, stepped out into the London sunshine on Sunday.

Kate, 43, who is Patron of the Rugby Football Union, had joined crowds at the Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium - and was seen fully embracing the crowd's enthusiasm.

Defence Secretary John Healey signalled Sir Keir is poised to take a harder line on immigration in the wake of Labour's panicked reshuffle.

Surely it cannot be true that one in ten secondary school children is on disability benefits, fuelled by a surge in the over-diagnosis of conditions such as ADHD and autism.

A couple spent 24 hours in a country that doesn't officially exist and were shocked by the incredibly cheap and tasty food.

The blog OMG Ubuntu notes that Microsoft Copilot chatbot support has been added in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. "Firefox's sidebar already offers access to popular chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Le Chat's Mistral and Google's Gemini. It previously offered HuggingChat too." As the testing bed for features Mozilla wants to add to stable builds (though not all make it — eh, rounded bottom window corners?), this is something you can expect to find in a future stable update... Copilot in Firefox offers the same features as other chatbots: text prompts, upload files or images, generate images, support for entering voice prompts (for those who fancy their voice patterns being analysed and trained on). And like those other chatbots, there are usage limits, privacy policies, and (for some) account creation needed. In testing, Copilot would only generate half a summary for a webpage, telling me it was too long to produce without me signing in/up for an account. On a related note, Mozilla has updated stable builds to let third-party chatbots summarise web pages when browsing (in-app callout alerts users to the 'new' feature). Users yet to enable chatbots are subtly nudged to do so each time they right-click on web page. [Between "Take Screenshot" and "View Page Source" there's a menu option for "Ask an AI Chatbot."] Despite making noise about its own (sluggish, but getting faster) on-device AI features that are privacy-orientated, Mozilla is bullish on the need for external chatbots. The article suggests Firefox wants to keep up with Edge and Chrome (which can "infuse first-party AI features directly.") But it adds that Firefox's nightly build is also testing some non-AI features, like new task and timer widgets on Firefox's New Tab page. And "In Firefox Labs, there are is an option to enable JPEG XL support, a super-optimised version of JPEG that is gaining traction (despite Google's intransigence). Other Firefox news: There's good news "for users still clinging to Windows 7," writes the Register. Support for Firefox Extended Support Release 115 "is being extended until March 2026." Google "can keep paying companies like Mozilla to make Google the default search engine, as long as these deals aren't exclusive anymore," reports the blog It's FOSS News. (The judge wrote that "Cutting off payments from Google almost certainly will impose substantial — in some cases, crippling — downstream harms to distribution partners..." according to CNBC — especially since the non-profit Mozilla Foundation gets most of its annual revenue from its Google's search deal.) Don't forget you can now search your tabs, bookmarks and browsing history right from the address bar with keywords like @bookmarks, @tabs, and @history. (And @actions pulls up a list of actions like "Open private window" or "Restart Firefox").

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The famous pair tied the knot in an afternoon wedding at the ultra-exclusive Gozzer Ranch country club in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

The pair - who were last pictured together on a rare date night in November 2024 -tied the knot back in 1997 and are parents to son Jaden, 27, and daughter Willow, 24.

Jamaica's ambassador for culture to the UK, told The MOS that Harry and Meghan's appearance at the premiere of Bob Marley biopic caused a diplomatic dilemma for Andrew Holness.

Dr Neil Hopper, 49, used dry ice to freeze his legs to the extent that they required amputation - then claimed he had developed sepsis following a family camping trip.

Glynn Leedell, 46, charged at an officer responding to reports of threatening behaviour at Kimberworth Park in Rotherham on July 17. He inflicted a nasty wound to the back of the policeman's neck.

Rylan, 36, was embroiled in controversy last week, after his comments about migrants on This Morning, during a discussion about Reform leader Nigel Farage 's plans for mass deportations.

European officials banned TPO (trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide), found in some gel polishes over fears it could be toxic. For now, it remains on sale here in the UK.

Kevin Costner's new romance has got tongues wagging - for a very intriguing reason.