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Inside the welfare tent at Wilderness Festival, volunteers from Open Road – Essex-based charity specialising in drug and alcohol recovery support.

A TENNIS club in Braintree will see a special guest appearance from GB Davis Cup player, Danny Sapsford.

The Salvation Army hosted a youth football tournament in Braintree to educate students about knife crime.

One of Britain's rarest birds, a pair of Montagu's harriers have successfully bred for the first time in the UK since 2019.

A GREAT Yeldham resident is launching a campaign after the village bus service issued a new timetable reducing the area's buses.

A stunning country home with views over the Dedham Vale National Landscape has hit the market.

Inside the welfare tent at Wilderness Festival, volunteers from Open Road – Essex-based charity specialising in drug and alcohol recovery support.

The people raised money to build the most iconic British fighter aicrafts in history

Prince Harry has been mocked by social media users claiming he's 'in the kiddie pool' after his wife Meghan Markle posted a video of him surfing on artificial waves.

The Deputy Prime Minister has put forward a Bill that would prevent anyone from serving simultaneously as London mayor and a Member of Parliament.

Sex And The City's divisive reboot And Just Like That... has concluded after three seasons - closing the book of Carrie Bradshaw's life. 

Queen Camilla was pictured beaming on Saturday while attending the final day of the Ebor Festival in York.

The band member, 29, took to Instagram to share an album of sweet pictures to announce their happy news.

Amy Forsythe, a recent university graduate from Northern Ireland , died after being rushed to hospital and spending just five days in intensive care.

Once known as Colonia Dignidad, it used to be a secretive paedophile sect established by a one-eyed Nazi in Parral, south of the capital Santiago after he fled Germany .

The Washington Post looks at the rise of low-effort, high-volume "AI slop" videos: The major social media platforms, scared of driving viewers away, have tried to crack down on slop accounts, using AI tools of their own to detect and flag videos they believe were synthetically made. YouTube last month said it would demonetize creators for "inauthentic" and "mass-produced" content. But the systems are imperfect, and the creators can easily spin up new accounts — or just push their AI tools to pump out videos similar to the banned ones, dodging attempts to snuff them out. One place where they're coming from... Jiaru Tang, a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology who recently interviewed creators in China, said AI video has become one of the hottest new income opportunities there for workers in the internet's underbelly, who previously made money writing fake news articles or running spam accounts. Many university students, stay-at-home moms and the recently unemployed now see AI video as a kind of gig work, like driving an Uber. The average small creator she interviewed did their day jobs and then, at night, "spent two to three hours making AI-slop money," she said. A few she spoke with made $2,000 to $3,000 a month at it. But the article provides other examples of the "wild cottage industry of AI-video makers, enticed by the possibility of infinite creation for minimal work" A 31-year-old loan officer in eastern Idaho first went viral in June "with an AI-generated video on TikTok in which a fake but lifelike old man talked about soiling himself. Within two weeks, he had used AI to pump out 91 more, mostly showing fake street interviews and jokes about fat people to an audience that has surged past 180,000 followers..." (He told the Post the videos earn him about $5,000 a month through TikTok's creator program.) "To stand out, some creators have built AI-generated influencers with lives a viewer can follow along. 'Why does everybody think I'm AI? ... I'm a human being, just like you guys,' says the AI woman in one since-removed TikTok video, which was watched more than 1 million times." One AI-generated video a dog biting a woman's face off (revealing a salad) received a quarter of a billion views.

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Deliveroo driver pretends to deliver a customer's food order by placing it in front of their door and taking a photograph as 'proof', before putting the meal back in his bag and riding away.

The lines have since been deserted or put to other uses

A fault with track circuits at Ingatestone is forcing trains to run at reduced speed on the line towards Witham, Braintree and Colchester.

Manhattan, New York famously plays host to some of the world's tallest and most recognisable buildings, from the Empire State Building to Rockefeller Plaza.