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I was grateful to receive a letter from a loyal reader who found a newspaper cutting revealing the contents of the 1951-52 Budget.

This would allow people to see in one place key details on all of the pension plans they have accumulated over their working life.

The Lions' final Test against Australia was suspended due to adverse weather, after lightning struck 10km away from the Accor Stadium in western Sydney.

The father-of-two is hoping to secure the vote of Framingham's 73,000 residents in the upcoming election and does not believe his unfortunate moniker will harm his chances.

Jason Manford gushed over his parents as they paid him a visit in hospital after he recently underwent surgery.

Well, well, well: If this isn't shaping up to be Meghan Markle's own annus horribilis, right?

A fugitive Brit believed to be a hitman who police say was wanted for murder has been arrested after a run-in with two women at a Costa del Sol petrol station and a subsequent car crash.

The Washington Post reports: In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today partly serves as a storage area for radioactive liquid waste. Federal officials said Friday that at least three more contaminated wasp nests were found within the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site, which encompasses an area more than four times the size of the District of Columbia... [F]ederal authorities said that the discoveries were not cause for alarm and experts noted that the discovery of radioactivity in wildlife near nuclear facilities did not necessarily indicate the likelihood of a major leak... In a statement sent to reporters, Edwin Deshong, manager of the Savannah River Site's Office of Environmental Management, said the wasp nests had "very low levels of radioactive contamination" and did not pose health risks to the site's workers, nearby residents or the environment... The Savannah River Site's 43 active underground waste tanks have more than 34 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste. The oldest tanks have previously "developed small hairline cracks" that led to small-volume leaks, the Savannah River Site says on its website. A July report after the first nest was found said there was "no impact" from the contaminated nest, the Post reports, with the nest's high radioactivity level due to "on-site legacy radioactive contamination" rather than "a loss of contamination control." More from the Associated Press: The tank farm is well inside the boundaries of the site and wasps generally fly just a few hundred yards from their nests, so there is no danger they are outside the facility, according to a statement from Savannah River Mission Completion which now oversees the site. If there had been wasps found, they would have significantly lower levels of radiation than their nests, according to the statement which was given to the Aiken Standard. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger for sharing the news.

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Creamfields, an electronic dance music festival held in August in Cheshire has seen a surge in attendees attempting to bring in Class A drugs hidden inside their body.

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson raised quite a few eyebrows as they promoted their new The Naked Gun reboot, as onlookers wondered if their affection for each other was real or just for show .

Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol announced the decision on Friday, citing Trump's role in halting the deadly war between his country and Thailand.

Tease your brain with this seemingly simple scavenger hunt for a copious amount of cats. Can you spot them all?

The late theoretical physicist left a chilling warning about what might happen if humans make contact with a UFO, and one scientist now believes his prediction is coming true.

Ronald Andrew Baquera Jr., or 'Ronnie,' was working on a construction site when a trench suddenly collapsed, trapping him beneath six feet of collapsing earth.

Michael Hughes says he spent years feeling inferior to other men with 'perfect hairlines'. Like thousands of British men every year, he began looking into hair transplant surgery. But things didn't go to plan...

After an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, "weather authorities leapt into action," reports SFGate, by modeling the threat of a tsunami "and releasing warnings and advisories to prepare their communities..." But some residents of Hawaii, Japan and North America's West Coast turned to AI tools for updates that "appear to have badly bungled the critical task at hand." Google's "AI Overview," for example, reportedly gave "inaccurate information about authorities' safety warnings in Hawaii and elsewhere," according to reports on social media. Thankfully, the tsunami danger quickly subsided on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning without major damage. Still, the issues speak to the growing role of AI tools in people's information diets... and to the tools' potentially dangerous fallibility... A critic of Google — who prompted the search tool to show an AI overview by adding "+ai" to their search — called the text that showed up "dangerously wrong." Responding to similar complaints, Grok told one user on X.com "We'll improve accuracy."

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More than once, I've become so exasperated by a tiny jackhammering toddler that I've taken matters into my own hands. And it's left some onlookers horrified.

Mohananeethan Muruganantharajah, 27, known as Mohan, was on a family day out in the Brecon Beacons in Wales on September 1, 2023 when the tragedy unfolded.

She says it's the "best thing that I've ever done"

There's now an "influx" of startups fightging wildfires, reports the Washington Post. "More than 100 new wildfire-related technologies have launched in the U.S. and around the world since 2023, according to Lori Moore-Merrell, who served as U.S. fire administrator during the Biden administration... Unmanned lookout poles that use AI to sense smoke have been erected in the West. Swarms of military-grade drones are increasingly used for wildfire detection and management. AI technology also tracks lightning strikes, which can ignite wildfires..." As America contends with what is already a punishing year of wildfires across massive swaths of the country, new, extremely precise satellite images beamed from space from the initiative FireSat. In March, a satellite outfitted with infrared sensors was launched more than 370 miles into space with the sole task of detecting and monitoring fires. With the ability to loop millions of miles around the planet each day, it found active fires and burn scars using bands of infrared light, demonstrating technology that the project's leaders and its early adopters said could be integral to filling technological gaps in the way they fight burns. The satellite initiative was launched by a nonprofit coalition called Earth Fire Alliance (EFA). Its partners include Muon Space, which is developing the satellites; Google, which is using AI to help filter through the images; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; and the Environmental Defense Fund. The goal is to have 50 satellites in orbit by 2030 to capture the entire world. At full capacity, the constellation is aiming to sweep the entire Earth every 20 minutes to detect small fires. By spring or summer of next year, it plans to launch three more satellites into space that will coordinate with agencies in states including California and Colorado to help them detect and fight fire.

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