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From pets wearing glasses to children using homemade viewing devices to glimpse the spectacular illusion in the skies on Wednesday, our readers embraced eclipse fever in full force.

Stars including Roman Kemp and Paddy McGuinness joined thousands of sun-gazers heading outside to watch the one-in-a-generation solar eclipse.

There are 34 candidates hoping to be the MP for Clacton

Our bills are higher than before we had the heat pump installed, and yet it didn't heat the home as well as our boiler in the winter.

It was during a standard consultation with a plastic surgeon, while on holiday with her mother in Istanbul, that Antonia Higham was first introduced to the idea of a facelift.

Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term

Construction has continued throughout the recent hot weather

The pop star, 41, and the former prime minister of Canada traveled to Sardinia via private jet and were spotted getting off the plane together and arriving with their fingers intertwined.

The University of Essex and Anglia Ruskin University are preparing to help students through the Clearing process.

Kevin Bellamy was elected to represent Galleywood and Great Baddow at the county council elections in May

Anglian Water has hinted at when its hosepipe ban in Essex could end as the county enters fifth heatwave.

Christian Overal, who lives in Hedingham, says the issue began when bin crews refused to empty two mixed recycling wheelie bins

The University of Essex and Anglia Ruskin University are preparing to help students through the Clearing process.

Anglian Water has hinted at when its hosepipe ban in Essex could end as the county enters fifth heatwave.

Meghan Markle suffered what looked like an awkward exchange with Prince Harry's longtime friend David Foster at the musician's charity event in Canada last Friday.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, sobbed uncontrollably as a medical examiner described the horrific details of her slain children's injuries.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Two days before tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, one of Spain's enclaves on Morocco's northern coast, a newspaper there posted a video on TikTok and Instagram showing two young women walking in the city in wet suits, their hair still damp. The posts didn't say so explicitly, but the implication was clear: The women had just swum across the border from Morocco. "Ceuta can't take it anymore," the newspaper, El Faro de Ceuta, declared in the posts. On the other side of the border, the video resonated very differently. Cropped and reposted in Arabic, the video seemed like an invitation. The women were smiling, flashing peace signs and thumbs up and, most of all, walking around freely. The video seemed to legitimize rumors that had percolated for weeks on social media suggesting that a recent ruling by Spain's Supreme Court meant migrants who arrived illegally by sea could stay in the country. As one account on Facebook put it, falsely, "Ceuta is turning into an open gate," when in fact migrants still faced expulsion after a judicial review. The responses to the posts about the swimmers were a critical part of a cascade of disinformation that experts described as one of the starkest instances in which social media contributed directly to a real-world tragedy.

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Subtle shifts in how you sleep could be an early indicator of your dementia risk, a study suggests.

Nothing moves in the Ukrainian city once known as the Soviet Union's 'capital of glass'.