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Named after a hero of the First World War, the pub survived flooding and many other disasters before being claimed by a fire

Maidenhead United boss Ryan Peters was sent off after he allegedly heatbutted Slough Town coach Scott Davis during a confrontation after a last-minute equaliser in the National League South tie.

The best-selling author, 65, who has been in a relationship with comedian Ricky Gervais for over 40 years, revealed she had been diagnosed with the disease in March following a routine mammogram.

Yasmine Mattar, 26, from Florida, believes that she has uncovered a simple method to figure out early on if a romance is going to last long-term or be destructive down the line.

Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributor Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, which had been inactive since 2022. After the original project went dormant — to which Collabora was a major contributor — they forked the code and created their own product, Collabora Online. But this week Meeks blogged about even more changes, writing that the Document Foundation (the nonprofit behind LibreOffice) "has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice for many years." Meeks argues the ejections were "based on unproven legal concerns and guilt by association." This includes seven of the top ten core committers of all time (excluding release engineers) currently working for Collabora Productivity. The move is the culmination of TDF losing a large number of founders from membership over the last few years with: Thorsten Behrens, Jan 'Kendy' Holesovsky, Rene Engelhard, Caolan McNamara, Michael Meeks, Cor Nouws and Italo Vignoli no longer members. Of the remaining active founders, three of the last four are paid TDF staff (of whom none are programming on the core code). The blog It's FOSS calls it "LibreOffice Drama." They've confirmed the removals happened, also noting recently adopted Community Bylaws requiring members to step down if they're affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with the Foundation. But The Documentation Foundation "also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing 'when the time comes.'" Collabora's Meeks adds in his blog post that there's "bold and ongoing plans to create an entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office for users that is smoother, more user friendly, and less feature dense than our Classic product (which will continue to be supported for years for our partners). This gives a chance to innovate faster in a separate place on a smaller, more focused code-base with fewer build configurations, much less legacy, no Java, no database, web-based toolkit and more. We are excited to get executing on that. To make this process easier, and to put to bed complaints about having our distro branches in TDF gerrit [for code review], and to move to self-hosted FOSS tooling we are launching our own gerrit to host our existing branch of core... We will continue to make contributions to LibreOffice where that makes sense (if we are welcome to), but it clearly no longer makes much sense to continue investing heavily in building what remains of TDF's community and product for them — while being excluded from its governance. In this regard, we seem to be back where we were fifteen years ago.

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For no reason, Alice suddenly launched herself at Missy, clamping her jaws around her neck, biting me by accident in the process.

Vim Maru, chief executive of Barclays UK, said the bank wanted to spread its 'footprint' through a branch expansion - and does not want customers to get 'stuck in some chatbot'.

Five are thought to have mistakenly abandoned the bag outside the house of the mayor (pictured) in Clapham, south London, at about 9.30pm on Tuesday.

The biggest military parachute jump in the UK for more than 10 years has shown how the British Army and Royal Air Force can work together in the air.

Aiden Smith took over the shop in Brightlingsea ten years ago with a clear vision: to preserve the heritage of a traditional butcher

The biggest military parachute jump in the UK for more than 10 years has shown how the British Army and Royal Air Force can work together in the air.

I think King Charles should rebel against our government's decision to grovel to President Donald Trump.

IAN LADYMAN AT THE ETIHAD: Liverpool were competitive for half an hour, but just dreadful thereafter. Weak and feckless in body and mind, they were Easter lambs dressed in red.

Victoria Beckham celebrated her niece Tallulah Isted's 24th birthday as she shared a sweet childhood snap on Instagram on Saturday.

The arrest took place at Westminster Magistrates' Court this morning, and was announced by prosecutor Emma Harraway during the hearing.

Andrew, 66, who is currently living in exile at Wood Farm in Sandringham, was paid a visit by his younger brother Edward, 62, this week.

I have been married for 52 years. My husband had an affair more than 30 years ago. He ended it when I found out. I was heartbroken.

A new military service scheme has been introduced by the German government, which means all men born after 2008 will have to undergo a medical exam.

The Bible records that Jesus rose from the dead after his crucifixion, a moment that became the foundation of Christianity and has remained fiercely debated for centuries.

The most consequential diplomatic vacancy in the world sits empty - and President Donald Trump is in no hurry to fill it.