Reform UK sweep to victory in Stevenage with five new councillors
Reform UK won five of the six seats, while the Liberal Democrats retained their county council seat
'This is Reform-quake!' Farage hails seizing swathe of councils from collapsing Tories and Labour in huge local elections surge - saying it shows he CAN become PM
Nigel Farage hailed 'Reform-quake' in local elections today as he saw his fledgling party rout the Tories and Labour in their back yards.
Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware
25-year-old fella pleads guilty to stealing, dumping 1.1TB of data from the House of Mouse
When someone stole more than a terabyte of data from Disney last year, it was believed to be the work of Russian hacktivists protesting for artist rights. We now know it was actually a 25-year-old California resident.…
'Tour de Tendring' cycling challenge to return for 2025
The course traverses seaside and countryside routes
Assisted dying laws would save NHS millions of pounds a year - and up to a dozen patients a DAY to take their own lives under the new measures, government forecasts predict
Legalising assisted dying would save the taxpayer £10million in NHS costs in its first year, rising to £60million after a decade, according to grim new estimates published by the government.
Scientists Discover Massive Molecular Cloud Close To Earth
An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly close to Earth. From a report: Named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye. It measures roughly 40 moons in width and has a weight about 3,400 times the mass of the sun, researchers reported in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
"In astronomy, seeing the previously unseen usually means peering deeper with ever more sensitive telescopes -- detecting those smaller planets ... those more distant galaxies," said study coauthor Thomas Haworth, an astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of London. "This thing was pretty much in our cosmic backyard, and we've just missed it," he added. Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust from which hydrogen and carbon monoxide molecules can form. Dense clumps within these clouds can collapse to form young stars. The article clarifies that Eos is 300 light-years away, which to be sure, is closer than any of the molecular clouds that we've known about previously.
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Obese dad is 'unrecognisable' after shedding almost half his weight - he took a common medication NOT weight-loss jabs
Dan Shilling, 39, has lost more than 10 stone is just over a year. His efforts were helped by a drug taken by nearly 9 million people in the UK.
Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain
Switching voltage allows search giant to swap out power delivery system
Google is planning for datacenter racks supporting 1 MW of IT hardware loads, plus the cooling infrastructure to cope, as AI processing continues to grow ever more energy intensive.…
Prince Harry LOSES appeal in his battle for full taxpayer-funded police protection when visiting the UK leaving him facing £1.5m legal bill
The Duke of Sussex believes he has been 'singled out' for 'unjustified, inferior treatment' since Megxit.
Lovely Essex beach is ‘the perfect escape from the day-to-day routine’
Reviewers of the beach give the coastal destination five stars
Dermatologists issue stark warning about how 'caveman method' can cause FUNGUS after woman skips washing face
A woman on TikTok is controversially claiming she isn't washing her face at all - or using any water - as she embraces the so-called 'caveman method' but commenters aren't convinced.
Dallas star who played a Ewing is unrecognizable during LA outing... can you guess who she is?
Dallas fans were sent into a frenzy this week when one of the show's most beloved stars was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Redis Returns To Open Source After Year-Long Proprietary Detour
Redis, the popular in-memory data store, has returned to open source licensing with Redis 8 now available under the AGPL v3 license. The move reverses last year's controversial shift to proprietary licensing schemes (RSALv2 and SSPLv1) that aimed to force major cloud providers to pay for offering Redis as a managed service.
The decision follows significant market pressure, including AWS, Google, and Oracle backing the Valkey fork, which gained momentum in the open source community.
Redis believes the AGPL license provides sufficient protection from cloud providers while satisfying open source requirements. Redis 8 will incorporate vector sets and integrate previously separate Redis Stack features including JSON, Time Series, and probabilistic data support.
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Expansion and refurbishment planned for Essex special school to increase pupil numbers
The school was graded as 'requiring improvement' by Ofsted at its last inspection
Awkward twist as Hugh Jackman's steamy kisses with 25-year-old co-star deepen 'rough patch' in Sutton Foster romance
Jackman, 56, plays a divorced middle-aged college professor who embarks on a forbidden romance with his 19-year-old student Annie, played by Ella Beatty, 25.
Essex Police defends £1m spent on 'rooting out' bad officers
Since 2017 81 police officers at Essex Police have been barred for their bad and sometimes criminal behaviour
British 'cocaine kingpin' is pictured in selfie 'sent on encrypted phone used to plan gangland murder from his luxury Dubai base'
British 'cocaine kingpin' James Harding, 34, can be seen in the photographs grinning and posing in the gym and a bathroom located inside The Nest development in Al Barari, Dubai.
Max Verstappen's girlfriend Kelly Piquet gives birth! F1 star announces arrival of baby girl with adorable snaps and reveals her sweet name
The F1 star, 27, announced the news on Instagram, sharing a slew of black and white snaps of their baby girl.
Chile braces for Antarctic tsunami with coastal evacuation underway after huge 7.5-magnitude earthquake
Officials fear a huge tsunami could be heading for Chile after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Argentina.
Growing financial pressures of social care in Essex could worsen with council reform
18,415 people were receving support from the county's adult social care services in December last year and that number is expected to continue to rise