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Just the other day, a former Buckingham Palace switchboard operator was reminiscing about working for the late Queen Elizabeth.

By common consent, on the Left almost as much as on the Right, Keir Starmer has got off to the worst start ever of any incoming British Prime Minister.

There is one cell in HMP Bronzefield's Unit Four which is unlike all the others. It is immaculately clean and tidy with a neatly made bed at all times.

Greg Martin is sharply aware of his own shortcomings, but also feels convinced a grave injustice has occurred. 'I've always been a big personality,' he says.

EXCLUSIVE: A seaside resort's 'ghost town' shopping centre has become the latest casualty of a downward spiral which had seen the once proud area plagued by drunks and vandals.

Can't afford first or business class but want something more comfortable than economy? That's why 'premium economy' was invented.

The Met Police has arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of the murder of the 85-year-old pensioner. Officers were called to the property in Streatham at around 1pm on Friday.

The fashion designer, 51, will be absent from Scary Spice's nuptials to fiancé Rory McPhee at St Paul's Cathedral on Saturday because she is out of the country.

As summer gets into full swing, Clacton is once again welcoming hoards of visitors from near and far.

Software engineer Sean Goedecke argues that AI coding agents have already been commoditized because they require no special technical advantages, just better base models. He writes: All of a sudden, it's the year of AI coding agents. Claude released Claude Code, OpenAI released their Codex agent, GitHub released its own autonomous coding agent, and so on. I've done my fair share of writing about whether AI coding agents will replace developers, and in the meantime how best to use them in your work. Instead, I want to make what I think is now a pretty firm observation: AI coding agents have no secret sauce. [...] The reason everyone's doing agents now is the same reason everyone's doing reinforcement learning now -- from one day to the next, the models got good enough. Claude Sonnet 3.7 is the clear frontrunner here. It's not the smartest model (in my opinion), but it is the most agentic: it can stick with a task and make good decisions over time better than other models with more raw brainpower. But other AI labs have more agentic models now as well. There is no moat. There's also no moat to the actual agent code. It turns out that "put the model in a loop with a 'read file' and 'write file' tool" is good enough to do basically anything you want. I don't know for sure that the closed-source options operate like this, but it's an educated guess. In other words, the agent hackers in 2023 were correct, and the only reason they couldn't build Claude Code then was that they were too early to get to use the really good models.

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As Britain sweltered in the hottest June on record, businesses and homeowners invested in technology to make our living spaces and offices more comfortable.

Navroop Singh, 24, raped the child aged under 13 in Hayes End Park, Hillingdon, west London, in October last year.

Dear Bel, I'm 44, and went to Ampleforth College in the 1990s. I boarded there and, overall, I remember it fondly.

Queen Camilla's eldest child, 50, who is based in London, unveiled the truth about his mother in the podcast White Wine Question Time.

Former Emmerdale star Kelli Hollis has revealed how much soap actors REALLY get paid and why it doesn't go as far as you'd think.

Prince Andrew, 65, grew up 'boisterous, self-willed, extroverted, confident and active - everything Charles was not,' according to royal author Nigel Cawthorne.

It is the latest blow for the broadcaster, 65, who has suffered numerous health problems over the last few years and has gone through a divorce with Ruth Langsford.

More and more singletons are taking to social media to express their concern that they've been 'cookie-jarred' by a potential partner - in the UK and beyond.

Officers are continuing to look for 62 year-old Karen, who has gone missing from South Woodham Ferrers.

The Duchess of Edinburgh has taken inspiration from Kate Middleton and stepped out in the sell-out white cotton espadrille wedges by Penelope Chilvers this week.