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Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.…

It is the same system which caused such a furore for Oasis' tour earlier this year, which saw £135 standing tickets re-hashed as 'in demand' and bumped up to £355 on Ticketmaster, plus fees.

It began two weeks ago outside a beachside café where one sharp-eyed Daily Mail reader was getting a cup of tea.

Just two months ago, Rachel Reeves was wiping away tears on the frontbench during Prime Minister's Questions while Angela Rayner smiled nearby.

Mrs Badenoch urged Sir Keir Starmer to show 'backbone' and sack his deputy at the start of the exchanges, but used the rest of her questions to tackle the PM over the economy.

Miranda Kerr has broken her silence on her ex-husband Orlando Bloom's recent split with his fiancée Katy Perry.

During Andreeva's women's doubles match on Monday, the 18-year-old was seated on the bench before a fan attempted to approach her.

After 26 years and over 1,000 episodes, Melvyn Bragg is stepping down as presenter of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, leaving behind a legacy of intellectual curiosity and broadcasting excellence. While he will no longer host the series, he will remain involved with the BBC and is set to launch a new project in 2026. The BBC reports: Over the last quarter of a century, Melvyn has skilfully led conversations about everything from the age of the Universe to 'Zenobia', Queen of the Palmyrene Empire. He has welcomed the company of the brightest and best academics in their fields, sharing their passion and knowledge with a fascinated audience right around the globe. While he will be much missed on In Our Time, Melvyn will continue to be a friend of Radio 4 with more to come to celebrate his extraordinary career, and a new series in 2026 (details to be announced soon). Melvyn Bragg says: "For a program with a wholly misleading title which started from scratch with a six-month contract, it's been quite a ride! I have worked with many extremely talented and helpful people inside the BBC as well as some of the greatest academics around the world. It's been a great privilege and pleasure. I much look forward to continuing to work for the BBC on Radio 4. Thank you for listening." [...] In Our Time will be back on Radio 4 with a new presenter who will be announced in due course.

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The new additions will be in five stores from this week - including one in Essex

Pennsylvania parents accused of keeping their five children locked inside a 'dungeon' had also allegedly subjected them to some severe punishment.

Motorists are experiencing delays on the A12 near Witham.

It's that time to take a look at a few short snippets.

Boolean values can hold true or false. But is that truly self documenting? I think we need clearer variable names for this. Certainly, the snippet Nonymous found thinks so:

boolean isTrue = false;

Well, at least I'll know if it's true or not. I'm not sure what "it" is in this scenario, but I'm sure that's the least important part of all of this.

If you've worked in C#, you're aware that it offers both a string type, and a String type- they're the same thing. So Colin's co-worker isn't wrong for writing code this way, but they're also wrong for writing code this way.

writer.WriteLine(string.Empty); writer.WriteLine(String.Empty);

Billie sends us this short bit of Java, which ensures that nulls are properly handled:

if (val == null) { return null; } return val;

It's very important that, if val is null, we don't just return the contents of val, we should return null instead. Y'know, so no one is surprised by an unexpected null. Wait a second…

Finally, Jon finds this comment in the codebase. The code is elided, but I Jon has helpfully summarized it.

// Basically, … several thousand lines of dense code containing no further comments

Honestly, I'm not sure if that comment is a statement of surrender or just an ironic joke. Either way, I get it.

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Lady Gaga made the tough decision to cancel her Mayhem Ball concert in Miami, Florida tonight, just minutes before showtime, due to a medical issue. 

You've read the headlines and heard our experts' opinions - but what do YOU think?

It was reported that a threat had been made towards staff at the business alongside a threat to burn it down and cause significant damage

It sounds like the sort of thing that happens in shady third-world regimes. A man returning home to find five police officers waiting for him. His alleged crime? A few jokes on social media.

Keir Starmer is facing questions about whether he misled the public when he claimed Angela Rayner was the subject of a 'briefing war'.

Will the British public accept the version of herself that Angela Rayner put forward in her syrupy interview yesterday with Beth Rigby of Sky News?

Parents of children caught riding e-scooters in public could face prosecution and points on their license