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The incident is currently being treated as arson

The team told how the two robbers struck while manager Tony Poole, 33, was busy loading several bikes onto a roof rack of his car in preparation for a race in the Peak District last weekend.

Lottie Moss's company is entering liquidation after the model amassed a six-figure tax bill she is unable to pay.

Since their heartbreaking fallout with son Brooklyn last year, there is nothing that Sir David and Victoria Beckham want more than to be in the same room as their oldest offspring.

Officers have been in contact with the school

Rail passengers will soon have less time to claim refunds as National Rail tightens its rules.

Rail passengers will soon have less time to claim refunds as National Rail tightens its rules.

Lloyd Hamilton, 52, who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans, was awarded his MBE in 2011 after setting up a charity to help wounded soldiers.

Audience members are encouraged to wear orange Blippi glasses and join in the fun as the cast invites everyone to "be like Blippi."

Audience members are encouraged to wear orange Blippi glasses and join in the fun as the cast invites everyone to "be like Blippi."

It may not sound glamorous, but nutritionists increasingly see fibre as one of the most powerful foundations of a healthy diet.

Vile Colin Blanchard is being assessed by Parole experts two years after he was refused release because he still had 'extreme sexual interests'.

Organisers of the Derby 10k blamed flood defence works in the city for the mistake, which left some athletes running an extra lap of Pride Park football stadium to make up the distance.

sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil -- with a bit of help from human poop. The idea may not be so far-fetched. In a preprint posted this month on bioRxiv, researchers show potatoes can indeed grow in the equivalent of Moon dust, though they need a lot of help from compost found on Earth. To make the discovery, scientists first had to re-create lunar regolith -- the loose, powdery layer that blankets the Moon's surface. To replicate that in the lab, David Handy, a space biologist at Oregon State University (OSU), and his colleagues used a mix of crushed minerals and volcanic ash that matched the chemistry of the Moon. But lunar regolith is entirely devoid of the organic matter that plants need to grow. "Turning an inorganic, inhospitable bucket of glorified sand into something that can support plant growth is complex," says Anna-Lisa Paul, a plant molecular biologist at the University of Florida not involved with the work. So Handy and his colleagues added vermicompost -- organic waste from worms -- into the regolith. They found that a mix with 5% compost allowed the potatoes to grow while still emulating the stressful conditions of the lunar environment. After almost 2 months of growth, the team harvested the tubers, freeze-dried them, and ground them up for further testing. Analysis of the potatoes' DNA showed stress-related genes had been activated. The potatoes also had higher concentrations of copper and zinc than Earth-grown ones, which may make them dangerous for human consumption. The plants' nutritional value, though, was similar to traditional potatoes -- a surprise to the scientists, who expected lower levels of nutrition "because the plants might have been working overtime to overcome certain stressors," Handy says.

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Ali Larijani, one of Iran's most senior officials and a central figure in the country's security establishment, was killed in an overnight attack in Tehran.

Tyson Fury might already have one eye on his looming return to the ring but the latest trailer for At Home with the Furys makes one thing clear: the road back hasn't been smooth at home.

John Fury has shared his reservations about his granddaughter Venezuela Fury's engagement in the new trailer for At Home with the Furys, offering a more traditional view on teenage relationships.

Christopher Trybus, 43, slowly moved the 'line' of acceptable behaviour before he 'blew up' one day, his wife Tarryn Baird wrote in her diary.

The Princess Royal, who is patron of the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), was captured warmly embracing Sione Tuipulotu following Scotland's final Six Nations fixture against Ireland on March 14.

The show, set in the fictional Californian town of Sunnydale, followed Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who attended school by day and hunted evil spirits by night.