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A construction expert has revealed the key risk factors to look out for when selecting a type of insulation for a house.

Development minister Anneliese Dodds has resigned warning that the reduction will only increase the influence of Russia and China.

A glamorous former Texas high school teacher has been locked up again on new charges after she allegedly had sexual intercourse with one of her young students.

Stevenage Borough Council agreed its budget for 2025/26 at a meeting this week

Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues

Microsoft would like the Trump administration to row back AI export restrictions introduced by his predecessor that affect countries where the cloud services giant has datacenters.…

New submitter SharkByte writes: Mozilla just updated its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for Firefox with a very disturbing "You Give Mozilla Certain Rights and Permissions" clause: When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox. H/T to reader agristin as well, who also wrote about this.

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Locals gush over how 'quiet and lovely' it is

An inquest has opened into the death of a Boomtown attendee who died after attending last year's event.

Lily, a 24-year-old model from Derbyshire, unveiled the plan, saying she would 'love to do some charity work, begging men '60 and above' to get in touch with her.

The Wire star Clarke Peters has slammed colour-blind casting in factual dramas, arguing it would be 'absurd' if Dominic West portrayed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

Gwyneth Paltrow is the latest star Millie Bobby Brown has taken fashion inspiration from as she continues to dress years beyond her age.

A road closure of Church Lane, Black Notley near Braintree has been extended for a second time due to road surface defects.

Tania Gomez, 32, was apprehended in Lanzarote last week after fleeing Sweden in 2021. Dubbed Europe's 'cocaine queen,' Gomez is thought to be connected to an organised crime group in Stockholm.

The branch is introducing Turtle Bay's first ever breakfast menu

Wetherspoon bosses are hoping to open new pub this summer

Google changed its rules around how product-review sites appear in its search engine. In the process, it devastated a once-lucrative corner [non-paywalled source] of the news media world. From a report: Sites including CNN Underscored and Forbes Vetted offer tips on everything from mattresses and knife sets to savings accounts, making money when users click on links and buy products. They depend on Google to drive much of their traffic, and therefore revenue. But over the past year, Google created stricter rules that dinged certain sites that farm out articles to freelancers, among other things. The goal, Google has said, was to give users higher-quality search results. The outcome was a crisis for some sites. Traffic for Forbes Advisor, a personal-finance recommendation site, fell 83% in January from the same month the year before, according to data firm Similarweb. CNN Underscored and Buy Side from WSJ, which is operated by Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, were both down by more than 25% in that period. Time magazine's Time Stamped and the Associated Press's AP Buyline, powered by Taboola Turnkey Commerce, ended their efforts in recent months. Taboola closed the commerce operation.

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Fitness instructor Brightyn Slettenr has issued a warning about using ankle weights when working out - and why they could actually do more harm than good.

Nikodem Lopata, 22, of Crewe, Cheshire, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison aged 19 and was told by the Home Office that he would be sent back to his birth country.

A British woman was caught straddling another tourist in the back of a tuk-tuk by shocked driver Khun Atiwat, 36, as he drove them to their hotel in Phuket, Thailand on Thursday evening.

He will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court next week