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I had to do a double-take. Glamorous former model Melinda Messenger posted pictures of herself online at the weekend looking radiant - but without her trademark platinum blonde hair.

Martin Goff snapped the majestic bird as it swooped from its perch to feed at a Shropshire lake on September 30.

How worried are you about potential Russian missile attacks on Britain? Have your say in the Morning Mail poll.

The star said he was physically 'acting out [his] dreams' before he learned he had the neurodegenerative disease.

Nearly six decades after the footage was given to English Heritage, the movie will be shown to the public for the first time this weekend.

From this spring, up to 20 councils plan to deliver instruction leaflets to parents alongside their primary school place offer.

The classic record, which was released in December 1965, has been re-released with 24 early session recordings, which includes 20 previously unreleased takes.

Last night Ms Kidman, 59 - who was accompanied by her younger daughter, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, 15 - made a grand entrance at Chanel's Paris Fashion Week show.

The 82-year-old, who has been with the corporation for six decades, predicted it will no longer exist unless funding is sorted out - and he branded viewers who do not pay the licence fee 'shoplifters'.

Wired reports that rural data center projects could become eligible for expanded federal Opportunity Zone tax benefits starting in 2027, with more than 100 planned or developing facilities potentially qualifying. "Right now, the only requirement to get the benefits is capital investment," says Emily Kraschel, a tax policy analyst at the Searchlight Institute, a public policy think tank. "However, that doesn't guarantee that that money is necessarily creating jobs or creating a local economic boost. You'd be more sure of that with a more traditional factory that requires lots of workers. But with a data center, that assumption goes a little wonky." From the report: During the first Trump administration, a bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed the creation of the opportunity zone program, which offers tax benefits for companies that choose to build projects in certain low-income census tracts. Last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act made a number of changes to open up the program in order to attract more investment to rural areas. Kraschel and her colleagues from Searchlight have been researching data center projects that might qualify for these tax benefits, comparing the locations of data center projects in development with rural census tracts eligible for the new program. Wired exclusively reviewed the research compiled by Searchlight and found more than 100 data centers under various stages of development in rural areas that could be eligible. Searchlight used a very conservative database of under 700 data center projects that are planned or under construction to compile its research; other datasets put the number of data centers in development in the US at closer to 1,500. It's very likely that the number of newly eligible projects is bigger, especially since more data centers are decamping from urban areas. Separate research from Pew found that while just 13 percent of operating data centers are located in rural areas, a majority of planned facilities -- around 67 percent -- are going rural. [...] A project simply existing in a rural opportunity zone doesn't mean the company automatically will get the tax benefits; the company has to create a specialized investment vehicle to kickstart the process. Because the tax break can be considered confidential IRS data, it's next to impossible to know which companies are pursuing the benefits unless they voluntarily disclose. [...] Nathan Jensen, a government professor at the University of Texas-Austin, says that he would be "very surprised" if some companies were not considering siting in rural opportunity zones as part of their decisionmaking process. "It's essentially free money," he says. There is no requirement for projects getting opportunity zone benefits to create jobs; the assumption is that they will do so, simply by siting in the community itself. This isn't always the case for projects like storage facilities and warehouses, which, Jensen says, have been popular choices for developers working in opportunity zones. Data centers may create a number of jobs in the short term for their construction, but there's an ongoing debate about whether or not they create a lasting new workforce over the longer term.

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You'll no doubt be familiar with the maverick detective who has troubles at home. In this new drama, Pierre Jeffreys is not a detective but a duty solicitor - and he has troubles everywhere.

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Former President Joe Biden's FBI monitored Melania and Barron Trump's travel and tapped Donald Trump's future right-hand-woman's phone, according to newly released documents.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter North, 13, turned heads with metal grills, fake piercings and bold blue hair at ComplexCon in LA. 

The motoring expert turned Clarkson's Farm star highlighted the challenges facing the industry on stage in Birmingham.

Cates, 51, and Chapman, 52, have been stars of the BBC show's three-person presenter panel alongside Gabby Logan since the start of last season following Gary Lineker's departure.

Until ten days ago, RAF Fairford was of little interest to anyone apart from a charmed circle of plane spotters who knew it had one of the longest runways in the country.

He stunned his colleagues by stepping down from the Cabinet - a move many thought cost him a decent chance of one day becoming prime minister.

The influencer, 34, already shares two children with ex-husband Gaz Beadles, with whom she split two years ago.

Hackers stole records belonging to roughly 8 million Danish citizens and residents from Denmark's Central Person Register (CPR), including names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information. The breach is believed to be the largest in Denmark's history. TechCrunch reports: The CPR is a government database of Danish citizens' information, including their government-issued identity number for paying taxes and accessing other services. Denmark's current population is about 6 million people, but the database includes records for about 11 million people, with some of the data going back decades. The Danish government would not say who is behind the breach, which happened in September but was discovered on October 2. However, it said the unauthorized access was obtained by "abusing a Danish company's lawful access to search for information in the CPR system." (Some companies in Denmark have access to the CPR for verifying people's information with the government.)

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