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Buy-to-let experts have revealed there are several little-known tricks that landlords can use to slash their mortgage costs - in some cases by thousands of pounds a year.

In 2022, Mariella Frostrup revealed she had heart disease and was 'on medication you inject twice a year' saying it was 'a life-saver as statins didn't work for me'.

As a nation, our feelings about walking are mixed. Some of us still harbour resentment at being hauled out as teenagers, post-Sunday lunch, to march over a windy heath.

Strictly Come Dancing bosses have found a replacement for Giovanni Pernice, and it's another Italian hunk.

"The time has come for me to step away," ArcoLinux lead Erik Dubois posted last week. ("After eight years of dedication to the ArcoLinux project and the broader Linux community...") 'Learn, have fun, and enjoy' was our motto for the past eight years — and I really had fun doing all this," Dubois says in a video version of his farewell post. "And if we reflect back on this teaching and the building and promoting of Linux, it was fun. But the time has come for me to step away..." Over its eight years ArcoLinux "accomplished several important milestones," reports Linux magazine, "such as creating over 5,000 educational videos; the creation of ArcoInstall; the Carli education project; the Arch Linux Calamares Installer (ALCI); the ArcoPlasma, ArcoNet, ArcroPro, and Ariser variants; and much more." According to Dubois, they weren't just creating a distribution but a mindset. Dubois says that the code will remain online so others can learn from, fork, or remix the distro. He also indicated that ArcoLinux will supply users with a transition package to help them convert their existing ArcoLinux systems to Arch Linux. That package will remove ArcoLinux branding, replace pacman.conf with an Arch and Chaotic-AUR focused config file, and change the arcolinux-mirrorlist to a single source. It's FOSS News describes ArcoLinux as one of those "user-friendly Arch-based distros that give you a bleeding-edge experience." The reasoning behind this move, as shared by Erik, is his advancing age and him realizing that he doesn't have the same level of mental focus or stamina he used to have before. He has found himself making small mistakes, the kind that can negatively affect a major undertaking like this... Come July 1, 2025, the transition period will end, marking a stop to all development, including the deactivation of the ArcoLinux social media handles. The Telegram and Discord communities will stay a bit longer but will close up eventually. "I want to leave ArcoLinux while it's still strong, and while I can look back with pride at everything we've accomplished together," Dubois says in their post...

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Chocolatey treats are permitted today but parents watching children scoff a Cadbury Creme Egg might be surprised to learn just how much sugar the seasonal candy packs in.

Martin O'Donovan, 46, was fatally injured around 11.45pm on Friday night in the upmarket suburb of Woolton, in Liverpool.

The town it resides in has some controversial opinions about how nice it really is

Seven statues, including the Millicent Fawcett statue, were defaced with graffiti during a protest against the Supreme Court ruling on Saturday.

JLo performed her first headline show at a Formula One Grand Prix for 11 years as she thrilled fans in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - but not before she was the subject of a painful joke.

Discover magazine reports that a team of researchers have produced evidence that the ancient building blocks for water have been here on earth "since early in the planet's history, according to a study published in the journal Icarus." Pinpointing when and where Earth's hydrogen [originated] is an essential key to understanding how life arose on the planet. Without hydrogen, there's no water, and without water, life can't exist here. Ironically, researchers turned to a meteorite containing hydrogen to prove that such former bodies did not provide the H2 ingredient of water's H2O recipe. They examined a rare type of meteorite — known as an enstatite chondrite — that was built similarly to early Earth 4.5 billion years ago and the team discovered hydrogen present in the chemical. The logic is that if this material resembling early Earth's composition can contain hydrogen, so too could the young planet.... Since the proto-Earth was made of material similar to enstatite chondrites, by the time the immature planet had grown large enough to be struck by asteroids, it would have already stashed enough hydrogen to explain Earth's present-day water supply.Although this study likely won't resolve the debate over Earth's original water source, it tilts the ta ble toward an internal, not external one. "We now think that the material that built our planet — which we can study using these rare meteorites — was far richer in hydrogen than we thought previously," James Bryson, an Oxford professor and an author of the paper, said in a press release. "This finding supports the idea that the formation of water on Earth was a natural process, rather than a fluke of hydrated asteroids bombarding our planet after it formed."

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Suzanne Timms was reading an old newspaper article about a woman's remains being found in a remote forest in Oregon when something stopped her in her tracks.

Property investor Eddie Dilleen, Booby Tape co-founders Bianca and Bridgett Roccisano and The Quick Flick founder Iris Smit all have something in common - they started from nothing.

A Washington nuclear site that was used in World War II and was dubbed the 'underground Chernobyl ' is a disaster waiting to happen.

The Dublin-born sports presenter says she's exhilarated to mark a big birthday she never thought she'd see following two cancer diagnosis.

Rebel Wilson has pulled out all the stops for Easter. 

A Perth mother took her 9-year-old daughter for a makeup session - only to be met with judgmental looks. But the mum hit back in a viral Facebook post offering a devastating explanation.

While the eighth amendment states that prisoners should not be subjected to 'cruel and unusual punishment', botched executions continue to happen with astonishing regularity

The 55-year-old is one of Donald Trump's closest allies, with the president joining him at UFC 314 in Miami, Florida last weekend.

Famed Australian scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Jeff Bezo's all-female Blue Origin space flight.