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Here are the road closures Essex drivers should be aware of this weekend.

There are fears the final cost of a major road project could soar far beyond original estimates after a similar scheme ran four times over budget.

Several postcodes in Essex won prizes in the People's Postcode Lottery in July 2025. Were you a winner?

The actress landed a stunning payout after alleging she was sexually assaulted. It appears to pave the way for a host of legal actions against Disney.

The Hoffa mystery has sparked half a century of theories involving swamps, stadium foundations, incinerators - and claims his body was dissolved in chemicals. A reporter says he knows the truth.

An analysis of the 51 most-frequented cities in the world looked at a variety of factors to determine the rankings.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the new world record for the flash registered on October 22, 2017, over the Great Plains in the US. It stretched from east Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, roughly the distance between Paris and Venice. The previous record of 768km was also recorded in the Great Plains, a hotspot for severe thunderstorms, on April 29, 2020. Since 2016, scientific advances in space-based mapping have allowed for lightning flashes to be measured over a broader space, allowing these long flashes to be recorded. This event was one of the first flashes to be documented using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest model of orbital satellite, known as a geostationary operational environmental satellite. [...] The advances in technology have also allowed for the recording of the greatest duration for a single lightning flash. The record is a flash that lasted 17.1 seconds during a thunderstorm over Uruguay and northern Argentina on June 18, 2020. The findings have been published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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The 38-year-old man flew to Istanbul and had the cosmetic procedure on Monday at a private clinic called CINIK in the city's Besiktas neighbourhood, Turkish news outlet OdaTV reports.

Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge

Believe it or not, Meta's AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 — it's just that those models aren't the kind that's got everyone, including the Social Network, plowing tens of billions of dollars a year into datacenters.…

An idyllic four-bed family home perched on the Isle of Portland in Dorset is up for sale - but it's not just for the 'breathtaking' sea views the property is seemingly attracting attention.

Cynthia Chia, 38, was ordered to pay £25,000 to energy trader Idowu Ogunkanmi, 44, after she launched a 'horrific' campaign of harassment and falsely accused him of raping her.

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Ethan Chapin's parents Jim and Stacy Chapin and triplet siblings Maizie and Hunter chose not to attend Kohberger's sentencing.

The 65-year-old broadcaster and farmer took to X to share the 'bad news' on Thursday, stating: 'Bad news from Diddly Squat. We've gone down with TB.'

Their cocaine was the best in the City, their delivery times unparalleled and their customer relations attentive and deferential. It was no wonder they called themselves the Top Gear gang.

For those of you who remember the year 1982 - it looms large, if indirectly, on our cinema screens this week.

Five years on from Megxit, Meghan Markle's woe-is-me narrative is starting to unravel. Now, the timing is perfect for Europe's bright, modern young royals to step forward, writes Sharon Hunt.

An influencer who threatened to 'go on strike' and stop posting content until she is respected as a TikTok star has been slammed online.

The former footballer's style choices made headlines this week when his son Cruz, 20, appeared to take inspiration from him in some $550 (£410) white Prada pants.

CHRIS WHEELER: United have made good progress on their US tour, but the trip to Chicago, New Jersey and Atlanta has attracted more attention for what has been happening off the pitch.