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Commuters are facing severe disruption to rail services between Colchester and London Liverpool Street due to a train fault.

Commuters are facing severe disruption to rail services between Colchester and London Liverpool Street due to a train fault.

Snow White star Rachel Zegler was brutally mocked over her strange facial expressions at the 2026 Met Gala on Monday.

With many preparing to vote in local elections this week, when can we expect the results to be revealed across Essex

With many preparing to vote in local elections this week, when can we expect the results to be revealed across Essex

Gun-toting enthusiasts who travelled thousands of miles to shoot innocent civilians for fun during the siege of Sarajevo competed to kill the most beautiful women, a new book claims.

From Kim Kardashian's liquid-gold nude body dress to Beyonce's sequin skeleton gown, the 2026 Met Gala was inundated with show-stopping glamour and striking elegance.

In England, there are five types of council elections happening on May 7, with more than 5,000 councillors to be chosen in 136 councils (not including the six mayors being elected concurrently).

Many of us will know that a very high resting heart rate is a cause for concern, increasing the risk of stroke, heart attack and even premature death.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide hit a new record in April, averaging about 431 parts per million at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory. That's up from under 320 ppm when the site began measurements in 1958. Scientific American reports: Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, are measured as a proportion of the total atmosphere. The numbers are presented as the number of molecules of a particular gas out of a million total molecules, or ppm. Climate scientist Zachary Labe of Climate Central, a nonprofit that researches climate change, says the new record is "depressing" but not unexpected. "It's just another sign that carbon dioxide continues to increase in our atmosphere as our planet continues to warm," he says. "For many climate scientists, this is just 'here it is again, another record in the wrong direction.'" Labe explains that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere tends to peak in April each year as decaying plants release greenhouse gases after winter. Some of that CO2 gets reabsorbed by plants as they grow during the warmer months. But NOAA's data show a worrying trend, with the average monthly amount of CO2 steadily increasing. [...] Although the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has continued to rise, there was a reduction in U.S. emissions in 2023 and 2024. That trend, however, was reversed in 2025, at least partially because of the increased electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers. Still, Labe says there are reasons for optimism as the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind expands.

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The misconduct hearing will be chaired by the county's most senior police officer

He says the health service "needs radical reform"

The 44th president was speaking from his presidential center when he took several shots at Trump and hyped his qualifications if an alien invasion was to occur.

Dutch and Sharon Hoggatt discovered that a man called Preston Landis has allegedly crept into their basement. The man was arrested in Arkansas on April 29.

They have both been locked up for the sophisticated operation

Trump said that he had made the decision after requests from Pakistan and other nations, as well as progress being made on an agreement with Iran.

We're seven weeks into the Race to £10,000 and two players are romping ahead. Their identity comes as no surprise to me.

Speaking to Conan O'Brien for his podcast, a discussion of how comedians and politicians confront one another led Galifianakis to admit Clinton was not interested in the bit.

As previously discussed, C++ took a surprisingly long time to get a "starts with" function for strings. It took even longer to get a function called "contains". In part, that's simply because string::find solves that problem.

Nancy sends us a… different approach to solving this problem.

bool substringInString(string str, string::iterator &it) { string tmp; bool result = false; int size = str.length(); int count = 0; while (count < size) { tmp += *it; it++; count++; if (tmp.find(str) != string::npos) { result = true; it -= size; break; } } if ( !result) { it -= size; } return result; }

This function iterates across a string, character by character. In this iteration, we copy one character at a time into tmp. Then we see if tmp contains our search str. If it does, we break out of the loop after rewinding the iterator. Outside of the loop, we check if we found the substring, and if we did, we rewind the iterator. Then we return true or false based on whether on not we found the substring.

So wait a second. str is our search string. it is where we're searching. And we copy from it up to our search string's length into a temporary string. We then do a find in that temporary string- hey! This is just a startsWith check written in the most insane way possible.

Why even bother with the while loop? While tmp is shorter than the search string, the answer is always "no, we haven't found it". And the developers knew that- that's why they always rewind size characters on the iterator. They're always searching exactly that many characters. Of course, since we always rewind the same amount, we can also just move the it -= size statement out of the loop and out of the if statement and do it once.

Nancy calls this "a little gem" in a "large codebase". Yeah, a real gem.

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Lauren Sanchez is being mocked after boasting about her two-pound weight loss ahead of Monday night's Met Gala.