Remembrance Day poppy display is axed after Labour-run council's flag-flying crackdown
Locals in Hoyland, South Yorkshire, will no longer be able to commemorate their 'fallen heroes' by placing a large wooden poppy on each lampost.
Inside the 'real life' Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz and Wicked
Last year, our screens were taken up with all things Wicked following the release of the cinematic adaptation of the stage musical of the same name.
People who follow the Mediterranean diet have better sex lives, major review finds
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Jonathan Ross's daughter Honey shows off her figure in a skimpy white bikini as she poses in the ocean
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AWS Outage Takes Thousands of Websites Offline for Three Hours
AWS experienced a three-hour outage early Monday morning that disrupted thousands of websites and applications across the globe. The cloud computing provider reported DNS problems with DynamoDB in its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia starting at 12:11 a.m. Pacific time. Over 4 million users reported issues, according to Downdetector. Snapchat saw reports spike from more than 22,000 to around 4,000 as systems recovered. Roblox dropped from over 12,600 complaints to fewer than 500. Reddit and the financial platform Chime remained affected longer. Perplexity, Coinbase and Robinhood attributed their platform disruptions directly to AWS.
Gaming platforms including Fortnite, Clash Royale and Clash of Clans went offline. Signal confirmed the messaging app was down. In Britain, Lloyd Bank, Bank of Scotland, Vodafone, BT, and the HMRC website faced problems. United Airlines reported disrupted access to its app and website overnight. Some internal systems were temporarily affected. Delta experienced a small number of minor flight delays. By 3:35 a.m. Pacific time, AWS said the issue had been fully mitigated. Most service operations were succeeding normally though some requests faced throttling during final resolution. AWS holds roughly one-third of the cloud infrastructure market ahead of Microsoft and Google.
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The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins sheds another 18 pounds as she says 'I'm ready for comeback
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UK rethinks offshoring ban for £8M online procurement system
Cabinet Office signals it might let supplier ship work abroad after 'unforeseeable' event
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'Ruthless' Prince William is 'calling the shots' in dealing with Andrew to protect King Charles, royal biographer claims
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Boy or girl? 56% of IVF babies are MALE - and now doctors know the surprising reason why
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England football legend Stuart Pearce's 21-year-old son dies in tractor crash
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Sydney Sweeney's boxing biopic Christy is trashed by critics who brand it 'cliched' in series of savage reviews - after the actress gained 30lbs to play world champion
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Lily Allen reveals bare wedding finger on 'break-up' album shoot as she drops first new music in seven years
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The private beach on David and Victoria Beckham's £12m Costwolds estate that sparked planning row with neighbours
An investigation was launched into the celebrity couple by West Oxfordshire officers over the sprawling sand bank - after neighbours saw it on TV.
Why thousands of World Cup fans could be barred from entering the US in 2026
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JLo's scathing words about 'insecure' ex-husband Ojani Noa in interview where she claimed he couldn't cope with her earning more and revealed which A-lister she'd 'cheat' with - after he accused her of infidelity
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Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters
Now try a jet engine in a bedstead before strapping into a Starship
European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts have completed a helicopter training course to prepare them for upcoming lunar landings.…
POLL OF THE DAY: Should Andrew now lose his title of Prince?
Virginia Giuffre's brother has urged the King to go further against Andrew and take away his brother's princeship amid renewed controversy surrounding Andrew's role in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode
October security patch leaves users unable to fix their PCs
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'Revealing' wedding dress of daughter of Iranian supreme leader's aide who organised crackdown on hijab protestors sparks backlash in Tehran
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Schools should stop giving neurodiverse pupils extra time in exams, says neurologist: 'It's setting them up to fail'
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