'Fraudster' posed as a millionaire on social media to scam rich friends and relatives out of £420,000 of designer Hermes handbags, court hears
Jack Watkin, 26, allegedly promised his victims a share of the profits if they loaned him cash to buy and sell expensive Hermes bags.
The Wanted 2.0's Max George reveals Essex link at Foodies Festival
'I'm one of you' he told the crowd at Hyland's Park in Chelmsford
Tattle Life trolls panic and scramble to delete their accounts from 'toxic' forum amid fears they could be exposed - after site's gossip king Sebastian Bond was unmasked
After UK citizen Sebastian Bond was outed as the owner of toxic blog Tattle Life, many of its users are growing fearful that they too will meet a similar fate.
Casualty hunk 'dating another BBC co-star' just months after 'drifting apart' from his Call The Midwife colleague who played his on-screen wife
A Casualty hunk is reportedly dating another on-screen co-star, just months after splitting from his Call The Midwife girlfriend.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez 'are forced to MOVE Venice wedding party venue due to protests and US involvement in Iran war'
Bezos and Sanchez nuptials has already attracted huge controversy with protests planned by locals angry at the couple for 'taking over the city' for the planned three day festivities.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez 'are forced to make last-minute change to Venice wedding plan due to safety fears', ALISON BOSHOFF reveals
The $500 million yacht the Koru is the most visible indication of Jeff Bezos' incredible wealth - and the plan was for it to moor at San Basilio in Venice for the duration of his wedding with Lauren Sanchez
Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power
It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years
New York State is set to build America's first major new nuclear plant in more than 15 years, amid growing energy demands, particularly from power-hungry AI datacenters.…
The Essex food MasterChef winner Dhruv Baker loves as he says 'the list goes on and on'
The talented chef said Essex was "synonymous with great food"
Netflix fans go wild after streaming service brings back hit TV show five years later
Netflix has officially revived one of its most beloved political dramas and fans are already glued to their screens.
DeepSeek Aids China's Military and Evaded Export Controls, US Official Says
An anonymous reader shares a report: AI firm DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intelligence operations, a senior U.S. official told Reuters, adding that the Chinese tech startup sought to use Southeast Asian shell companies to access high-end semiconductors that cannot be shipped to China under U.S. rules. The U.S. conclusions reflect a growing conviction in Washington that the capabilities behind the rapid rise of one of China's flagship AI enterprises may have been exaggerated and relied heavily on U.S. technology.
[...] "We understand that DeepSeek has willingly provided and will likely continue to provide support to China's military and intelligence operations," a senior State Department official told Reuters in an interview. "This effort goes above and beyond open-source access to DeepSeek's AI models," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to speak about U.S. government information. Chinese law requires companies operating in China to provide data to the government when requested. But the suggestion that DeepSeek is already doing so is likely to raise privacy and other concerns for the firm's tens of millions of daily global users.
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Meet tennis' biggest BRAT: How Yulia Putintseva who was told 'nobody likes you' describes herself as a 'gangster', humiliated a ball kid and made X-rated gesture to the crowd... now, she's ready to cause carnage at Wimbledon
A tennis player who switched allegiances to earn Kazakh funding has found herself in the centre of another controversy after finding herself on the receiving end of an x-rated rant on Sunday.
What I'm hearing about Kate's royal future after her sudden absence from Ascot - and why it was a startling reminder of her gruelling cancer battle: REBECCA ENGLISH
In the wake of the Princess of Wales's non-appearance at Royal Ascot last week, I have been trying to work out what's really going on behind the scenes.
Five bodies with their hands and feet bound wash up on beach in Spanish holiday hotspot
Bodies have been washing up on beaches but these particular ones have been shackled, leading police to believe they had been murdered for some unknown reason.
What IS going on with Will Smith? As fans beg 'cringe' singer to 'stop releasing music' how star has been marred by setbacks after hallucinating that he would LOSE his career
His body of work has been overshadowed since he made global headlines when he stormed the stage at the 94th Academy Awards and slapped host Chris Rock.
The Essex pub bringing a community together through ancient tradition
People have been travelling from all over Essex to visit
Sarah Payne's murderer Roy Whiting details moment 'fellow inmate tried to kill him in cell with a wooden shank'
Andrew Light, 45, allegedly attacked the paedophile in HMP Wakefield with a 'wooden shank' leaving him 'bleeding heavily' from multiple wounds to his head and neck.
Is history repeating itself? Fans accuse Nicola Peltz of driving a wedge between Brooklyn Beckham and his family - just like she did with the Hadids
Is history repeating itself with Nicola Peltz and her husband Brooklyn Beckham? A 17-year-old Anwar Hadid dated Nicola Petlz Beckham in 2017 for 18 months.
Lawmaker arrested for 'strangling golden retriever in front of horrified Good Samaritan'
Richard Van Buren, 55, was charged with a felony count of mistreatment of an animal for allegedly strangling a golden retriever to death.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Australia head coach Joe Schmidt is playing mind games... but this is why it would be a huge mistake to keep his Wallaby stars out of the Lions warm-up matches
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: No one wins if Australia choose not to release their best players to feature in the warm-up matches of the British & Irish Lions tour.
I pulled my children out of school and now travel around the world with them - this is why
Diana Blinks, 41, and her husband, Scott, 47, have world schooled their three daughters - Lucille, 12, Edith, 11 and Hazel, nine - since 2022 when they left their hometown of Tampa, Florida, US.