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Julia Donaldson's book focusses on the story of a villain named Reginald who accidentally starts a fire after lighting tobacco.

He was once hailed as daytime television royalty, watched by millions and with a salary to match. But life for Eamonn Holmes has become so tough that he is not even as popular with his colleagues.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie spoke outside the Capitol on Tuesday ahead of the vote on the Epstein bill, which later sailed through the House - passing by 427 to 1.

Kate, 43, joined former England manager Gareth Southgate for an event at the Salesforce Tower in London today.

Marco Pierre White Jr, 30, confessed to assaulting Constantino Teixeira De Leca in Bath, Somerset, last April.

Renee Zellweger's boyfriend Ant Anstead offered a rare comment about the actress after sparking up a romance four years earlier.

Samuel Corner, 23, was allegedly among a group of activists who crashed through a gate at the Israeli-linked firm Elbit Systems UK in Patchway with an old prison van on August 5, last year.

Blender 5.0 has been released with major upgrades including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan, significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements. 9to5Linux reports: Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays that can be used for color grading for HDR video export, and new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views as an alternative to AgX and Filmic. A new "Jump Time by Delta" operator for jumping forward/backward in time by a user-specified delta has been introduced as well, along with a revamped Curve drawing, which better supports the new Curves object type and all of their features, and a new Geometry Attribute constraint. Also new is a "Cylinder" option for curve display type that allows rendering thicker curves without the flat ribbon appearance, support for the Zstd (Zstandard) fast lossless compression algorithm for point caches, as well as a new "Curve Data" panel in edit mode that allows tweaking built-in curve attribute values. A full list of changes can be found here. You can download from the official website.

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Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, the neighbor accused of fatally shooting King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss, was indicted on a murder charge on Monday, Bexar County, Texas court records confirm.

Leanne Grove, 44, was rumbled when a teaching assistant spotted an empty gin and tonic can in her handbag at Hazeldene School in Bedford.

A mum is in a stand-off with a mystery neighbour after arriving home to a snarky note after school pick-up. What would you do?

Drinkers are scrambling to safeguard the future of The Plough Inn in Radford, which shut its doors for the final time last month.

It's clear now that the Chancellor is a mere puppet whose strings are being pulled by backbenchers more Left-wing than Jeremy Corbyn ever was.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple's Power Mac and Mac Pro towers used to be the company's primary workstations, but it has been years since they were updated with the same regularity as the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro has seen just four hardware updates in the last 15 years, and that's counting a 2012 refresh that was mostly identical to the 2010 version. Long-suffering Mac Pro buyers may have taken heart when Apple finally added an M2 Ultra processor to the tower in mid-2023, making it one of the very last Macs to switch from Intel to Apple Silicon -- surely this would mean that the computer would at least be updated once every year or two, like the Mac Studio has been? But Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that Mac Pro buyers shouldn't get their hopes up for new hardware in 2026. Gurman says that the tower is "on the back burner" at Apple and that the company is "focused on a new Mac Studio" for the next-generation M5 Ultra chip that is in the works. As we reported earlier this year, Apple doesn't have plans to design or release an M4 Ultra, and the Mac Studio refresh from this spring included an M3 Ultra alongside the M4 Max. Note that Gurman carefully stops short of saying we definitely won't see a Mac Pro update next year -- the emphasis on the Mac Studio merely "suggests the Mac Pro won't be updated in 2026 in a significant way," and internal sources tell him "Apple has largely written off the Mac Pro." The current Mac Pro does still use the M2 Ultra rather than the M3 Ultra, which indicates that Apple doesn't see the need to update its high-end desktop every time it releases a suitable chip. But all of Apple's other desktops -- the iMac, the Mac mini, and the Studio -- have skipped a silicon generation once since the M1 came out in 2020.

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The Elvis actor dated Vanessa Hudgens then moved on to Kaia Gerber before being linked to Olivia DeJonge and Lily-Rose Depp. And then there is his 'date' with Ratajkowski.

Draven Bennington, the transgender child of Linkin Park's late frontman Chester Bennington, said farewell to her former self in a viral social media post.

Catherine Zeta-Jones shared a series of adorable throwback pictures on Instagram Tuesday, in celebration of her 25th anniversary to husband Michael Douglas.

Heather Mills never usually shies away from confrontation. Who can forget her fury at her £24 million divorce settlement from Sir Paul McCartney when she drenched his lawyer with a jug of water?

Glen Powell was being hailed as Hollywood's next Tom Cruise - but his latest action thriller Running Man has hit a brutal box office snag.

Elon Musk has hit back at Billie Eilish after the singer unleashed one of the most blistering celebrity call-outs of the year.