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The Reform leader said he was 'disappointed' as local plumber Robert Kenyon picked up 16,000 votes - 2,000 short of predictions.

Norway will largely prohibit generative AI use for elementary kids ages 6 to 13 beginning with the new school year, while allowing limited, teacher-supervised use for older students. The government says the restrictions are intended to prevent children from skipping foundational reading, writing, and mathematics skills amid declining test scores. Reuters reports: Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in 2024 banned smartphones from schools and has given teachers back more powers to enforce discipline in the classroom. Using AI increases the risk that young children skip important steps in their education, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a press conference on Friday. "The most important thing in school is that our children learn to read, write and do mathematics," Stoere said, adding that the new standards will be imposed from the new school year beginning in late August. Pupils from first through seventh grade, aged 6 to 13, should as a general rule not be using AI, while those in lower secondary school, aged 14 to 16, can cautiously adopt tools under teachers' supervision, the government said. In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added. In a related statement, the Norwegian government also said it would propose legislation to fund the use of more books in classrooms, reversing the trend towards computer tablets.

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Dr Andrew Moore made more than 100 attempts to access adult content while using the school's wifi, a misconduct hearing was told.

Dr Naeem Ahmed (pictured) was discovered slumped in a chair at Poole Hospital, Dorset, with two syringes and a half-empty bottle of Jameson whiskey nearby.

Some 51 per cent claim fathers are the most financially savvy people they know.

Prolific shoplifter Phillip Padgett, 32, has finally felt the weight of the law - after an armed policeman chased him down using a teenager's bicycle in South Shields, Tyneside.

After Stanley Tucci's surprise appearance yesterday, the King, 77, invited Andrew LLoyd Webber to travel to the Berkshire festival in an open-top carriage today.

DANIEL MATTHEWS IN SEATTLE: Iran vowed to complain to FIFA over restrictions 'imposed by the organizers' after claiming their team was being treated differently to the other 47 countries

Edinburgh Airport has been evacuated amid reports that a 'potentially suspicious item' has been found.

Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. "Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers, Prince composed the perfect riff-shredding accompaniment for the game's demon-slaying journey to hell and back," the Library of Congress stated. "Taking advantage of his knowledge of MIDI, Prince even worked to ensure that the sound effects he created could cut through the music by assigning them to different MIDI frequencies." Prince also worked on games such as Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad and Duke Nukem 3D. In 2006, the Game Audio Network Guild honored Prince with a lifetime achievement award.

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Arshid Hussain raped and abused teenage girls in Rotherham, and a judge said his gang had committed 'devastating' harm of 'unimaginable proportions'.

Everything that Harper Beckham uses in her 'posh' makeup routine has been revealed - and now you can get your hands on the products too.

A German tourist who killed a biker while driving on the wrong side of a Highland road has been jailed.

Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, "closing out SoftBank's last piece of Boston Dynamics and turning the Waltham, Massachusetts robotics company into a wholly owned Hyundai business," reports Startup Fortune. From the report: The price is $325 million for the remaining stake, according to the deal terms, and it follows the put option SoftBank retained when Hyundai bought control of Boston Dynamics in 2021. You should read that as a signal, not a footnote. Hyundai paid about $880 million for an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in the 2021 transaction, valuing the company at roughly $1.1 billion at the time. SoftBank had bought Boston Dynamics from Alphabet in 2017, after Google had acquired the robotics lab in 2013. It was a strange ownership path for a company whose robots became famous on YouTube long before they became obvious commercial products. That part is changing. At CES in Las Vegas on January 5, 2026, Hyundai and Boston Dynamics showed the electric Atlas humanoid robot in public, with the Associated Press reporting that the life-sized robot stood up, walked around the stage and was remotely piloted for the demonstration. The useful detail was not the stagecraft. It was the deployment plan. A production version of Atlas is expected to begin work at Hyundai's electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia, by 2028. [...] If Hyundai can turn that into repeatable manufacturing value, the SoftBank exit will look less like a tidy cleanup and more like the moment Hyundai stopped borrowing a robotics future and decided to own it outright.

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First of all, I want to say thank you. A massive thank you to every single voter in Aberdeen South who voted for me.

CRAIG HOPE: Rashford came from the bench during Wednesday's 4-2 win over Croatia and impressed when scoring his side's final goal.

US spy agencies have warned Donald Trump that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to torpedo his fragile peace deal with Iran to save his own political skin.

In what would seem to be a two-fingered salute to his former bosses at the BBC , the former Match Of The Day anchor will work for its rival broadcaster in what insiders are describing as 'a guest appearance'.

The actress has been adding to her roster of gripping dramas by filming The Woods, but took a day off to relax in the Manchester sunshine.

Victory in Aberdeen South shows the Tories 'can win anywhere' and defeat Labour and Reform at the general election, Kemi Badenoch has said.