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Braintree Council is reviewing its local plan to create a clear strategy for where development will take place in the district.

Outline plans propose up to 60 new homes, including 40% affordable housing, at Brain Valley Avenue, Black Notley with 70% of land set as green space.

Four potential developer sites totalling 12,073 homes have been proposed in Halstead, Kelvedon, Hatfield Peverel and Braintree.

There has been a huge increase in the number of flytipping reports

The record-breaking bush is back in all its glory thanks to the warm and wet winter this spring after becoming very dehydrated last summer.

Juliette Kenny, 18, a sixth form student at Queen Elizabeth's in Faversham, died in the early hours of Saturday morning after contracting meningitis.

What's behind the outbreak, should we all be on the lookout for symptoms - and why isn't the vaccine that protects against it used more widely?

King Charles will get a show of American military might during his state visit to the US, because White House officials fear they cannot match the British pageantry, according to reports.

The 81-year-old, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is said to be wheelchair-bound, almost totally deaf and increasingly distressed as he faces mounting legal troubles.

More than 40 students and staff made their way along the narrow beach at West Bay in Dorset which experiences regular rock falls.

Officials are weighing whether to relocate the defense secretary and the secretary of state from Fort Lesley J. McNair.

Joe Kent, who issued a scathing letter of resignation on Wednesday, has been accused of improperly sharing classified information, according to Semafor .

The Energy Secretary must grant approval for production to begin at the site, which is off the coast of the Shetland Islands and is the North Sea's largest undeveloped site.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans' data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency's director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first time since 2023 that the FBI has confirmed it was buying access to people's data collected from data brokers, who source much of their information -- including location data -- from ordinary consumer phone apps and games, per Politico. At the time, then-FBI director Christopher Wray told senators that the agency had bought access to people's location data in the past but that it was not actively purchasing it. When asked by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, if the FBI would commit to not buying Americans' location data, Patel said that the agency "uses all tools ... to do our mission." "We do purchase commercially available information that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act -- and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us," Patel testified Wednesday. Wyden said buying information on Americans without obtaining a warrant was an "outrageous end-run around the Fourth Amendment," referring to the constitutional law that protects people in America from device searches and data seizures.

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In the footage you can see Lilibet, with her long red hair in a beautiful sundress run up to the Duchess of Sussex as she is making flower arrangements and whisper something in her ear.

The alleged victim, who was drunk, had been enjoying a night out in the seaside resort when she was targeted by the group in a 'cynical, predatory and callous' manner.

Owing to Sir Keir Starmer's non-answers, Prime Minister's Questions is now as pointless as the human coccyx, the pelvic bone on a whale, or a drying-out clinic in Mecca. It has become farcical.

The Guardian has edited a controversial article about Gail's bakery after it was accused of using anti-Semitic tropes.

Adams, 77, the former president of Sinn Fein said: 'You depend on the people you depend on and they are reliable.'

George Georgiou has repeatedly been mistaken for Banksy ever since he was pictured installing Perspex around one of the artist's creations in Finsbury Park in 2024.