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Keir Starmer still knows how to surprise us. When faced with election results that presented an existential threat, he rose to the challenge and… appointed two relics of New Labour as advisers.

CNN reports on a "sudden surge of claimed sightings" of "unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas" along Ohio's Mahoning River. "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got out about the reports in Ohio, so did the obvious fakes. "I started to get a lot of AI-generated reports in my email. It got up to the point where I was probably getting about 1,000 emails a day," he says. But when Byron spoke by phone with people who made the initial reports, they convinced him they weren't making anything up. "It was obvious they weren't just wanting to get their name out there," says Byron. "They were just freaked out by what they experienced, and they didn't want anything else to do with it." [...] Local law enforcement in Ohio also seem to be enjoying the publicity. Portage County Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski made a series of gag posts purporting to show the arrest of Bigfoot and his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only for the creature to escape from custody at the Canadian border... Despite the levity, the sheriff's office really did get some calls from concerned residents, Zuchowski says. "Ten individual people were like, 'Yeah I was walking my dog at 4 a.m. and I saw this hairy figure and I smelled this musty odor and there was this big thing and all of a sudden it ran,'" the sheriff told CNN affiliate WOIO in March.

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Alain Favey got to know (and love) John Lewis and its food arm, Waitrose, during stints working in Britain, and believes 'John Lewis stands for quality'.

Huntley was cremated in a service organised by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after he was allegedly attacked at HMP Frankland in February.

Residents are very worried about infrastructure

Essex residents have mixed opinions about artificial intelligence, with some condemning its pollution of the creation industry, and others embracing its efficiency benefits in work.

Just over a third of this number have arrived since Labour took power in July 2024, according to analysis of Government data.

The majority of the listed 150,000 tickets have sold out before the show for the first time since the pandemic, as the countdown begins to the show's opening date.

The couple announced their separation on Friday, admitting they had agonised over the decision, but were determined to continue to be supportive parents.

Stacey Solomon made a splash with her sister Jemma as the pair wowed in swimwear during an influencer-packed getaway to Miami.

She has sold millions of records, written bestselling books, toured theatres, survived reality television and spent 26 years perched around the Loose Women table.

It is now almost 20 years since I first wrote this true thing. 'Labour and the Tories are like a pair of corpses, stiff with rigor mortis, propping each other up.'

People often scoff when I mention I use cashback websites - saying these sites involve too much faff for the few pence you earn each time you use one.

A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times. And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it." Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new tool, meaning that those articles will run with a generic credit rather than a reporter's name, as is customary. They are also labeled AI-assisted. "We don't want to put our bylines on stories we did not actually write even if they're based on our work," said Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at the Sacramento Bee and the vice chair of the Sacramento Bee News Guild. "That in itself feels like a lie." The reporters' byline strike is one of the sharpest conflicts yet between journalists and their companies over the use of AI. Related debates are playing out in newsrooms across the country, as publishers experiment with new AI tools to streamline work that used to take hours, and some even use it to write full articles... [E]xecutives have promoted the tool internally as a way to increase the number of articles published and ultimately gain new subscribers... [Eric Nelson, the vice president of local news] said using reporters' bylines on the AI-generated articles was a way to show "authority" on Google so the search engine would rank the articles higher in the results. He also said the company was experimenting with feeding in reporters' notes to create articles. "Journalists who embrace and experiment with this tool are going to win," Nelson said in the meeting. "Journalists who are defiant will fall behind".... McClatchy's public AI policy states that the company uses AI tools to summarize articles to "help readers quickly understand the main points of a single story or catch up on multiple stories about a larger topic," and that editors review the output before publication.

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Families came together to attend the Windsor Horse Drive in Berkshire on Saturday, meeting for a 13-mile ride complete with handy pub stops.

It should have the happiest period of Sarah Stenton's life: welcoming two baby daughters within 14 months and looking ahead to a lifetime of motherhood, memories and joy.

Nick Pasqual was found guilty of attempted murder in a California court on Friday.

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He had retired early from the police after being shot

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