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Scroll through Instagram and it can feel as though Britain's rich and famous are hopping from one holiday to another. But what you might miss is that someone else is usually picking up the bill.

The star's pal Mark Johnson White has shared a hilarious clip from their time staying on a yacht to celebrate his birthday, where Pete was forced to intercept his plans for a late night swim.

Victims have slammed local authorities for not investigating the King Evelthon Hotel over repeated fatalities as the two-year-old's grieving father is due to appear in court tomorrow.

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Emergency services rushed to Moorways Sports Village in Allenton, Derbyshire, at 1.38pm on Thursday after a potential chemical leak was reported.

Once associated more with hospital workers, gardeners and children than the fashion-conscious, Crocs have undergone a remarkable image transformation over the past two decades.

Officers from the Met stopped a suspicious vehicle and its 54-year-old driver in Catford, south London on Wednesday evening.

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A UK parliamentary inquiry found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defense breach exposing 18,700 Afghans could have been prevented with basic Excel training, after an employee unknowingly shared a hidden worksheet containing their details. The Independent reports: The leak, in February 2022, exposed the details of 18,700 Afghans who said they were in danger from the Taliban because of their links to UK forces and now wanted to escape to Britain. The blunder triggered an unprecedented superinjunction used against the national media, including The Independent, and prompted a secret evacuation program -- the cost of which is still unclear but which likely ran into the billions of pounds. Following the revelation by this outlet and others in July last year of the hidden operation, MPs set up an inquiry to scrutinize what had happened. In their report, the defense selection committee concluded that: - The data breach could have been prevented if Ministry of Defense (MoD) personnel had received basic Excel training - By August 2023, when the department discovered the leak, thousands of people already knew that a significant data incident had taken place - The government did not strike "the right balance between operational secrecy and democratic accountability" -- and the superinjunction was in place for too long - Secrecy denied affected Afghans the chance to take steps to protect themselves and their families and caused delays to evacuation program - Thousands of Afghans eligible to come to Britain are still trapped in Afghanistan with the government failing to explain how they will help get families to safety. MPs have called on the government to publish periodic reassessments of the risks facing Afghan applicants to UK resettlement schemes, with officials to report findings annually. They also want ministers to publish a clear policy explaining how they will help Afghans who are eligible to come to Britain but who have not yet been evacuated. The defense committee have also called on the MoD to explain who was responsible for data protection risk before the Afghan breach, criticizing the lack of accountability within the civil service.

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Firefighters have attended 570 separate incidents across Essex in one of its busiest weeks in four years these past six days.

Firefighters have attended 570 separate incidents across Essex in one of its busiest weeks in four years these past six days.

Taron Egerton showed off his ripped physique while jogging shirtless through London's Notting Hill during the heatwave on Tuesday. 

Speaking more frankly than ever about her personal life, Holly, 45, told her guest Katherine Ryan that she'd been 'jealous' to hear of her pregnancy last year.

Levi Whalley risked losing her job as a nurse when she tried to bring more than 35 kilograms of cannabis over from the US with her friend.

Deniz Mehmet, 28, Lee Ramsey, 46, and Robert Clarke, 50, were seen on video smashing the windows of Gregory & Co jewellers in Richmond, southwest London , on January 31.

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The news is a major blow for Trump, and comes as Republicans in the Senate appear more willing to break with the President on key issues.

Some 30,000 revellers are expected to attend the 15th edition of Wilderness festival, held just a stone's throw from celeb haunt Soho Farmhouse near the picturesque village of Charlbury.

Last September, I received a bleak diagnosis delivered with by a young doctor: 'You have superficial spreading melanoma, Maria.' In layman's terms, I had a fast-growing skin cancer.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 combines vision, language, and action models to control multiple types of robots, including humanoids performing tasks such as organizing shelves, tying bags, and replacing lightbulbs. "It's another milestone in our path towards really getting towards what we call like physical AGI, which means we get a robot to do anything that a human can," Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, tells WIRED. From the report: Gemini Robotics 2 combines several different AI models into a single system. Taken together, they allow a robot to make sense of its surroundings and how to act in it. A vision language model (VLM), which understands images and video, can communicate with humans and reason how to perform different tasks. Two vision language action (VLA) models, trained to understand how to move in physical space, control the robot's full-body movement as well as the movements of grippers or hands. In video demonstrations shared ahead of the release, the company showed several different robots performing complex tasks autonomously using the amalgamated model. In one demo, Apptronik's Apollo 2 robot used hands from a company called Sharpa to tidy shelves. Google DeepMind trained the model to perform these tasks using a mix of human teleoperation, video examples, and simulations -- it's not yet possible for AI models to perform a wide range of complex tasks without specific training. [...] Parada says Google takes a multi-layered approach to safety, with guardrails applied on each model layer. It's also introducing ASIMOV-Agentic, a new benchmark for measuring the safety of various AI systems collaborating to control a robot. The benchmark detects whether a command will result in harmful or uncertain outcome.

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