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Several postcodes in Essex won thousands of pounds in the People's Postcode Lottery in June. Were you a winner?

The year 10 New Rickstones Academy students were commissioned to create artwork for a station in the area.

This gruelling feat requires walking seven ultra-marathon distances over a week.

One person was unaware that the shopping centre existed

Shadow ministers are putting forward legislation which would make the 2023 trans guidance for schools legally binding.

Karla Haines, 34, was working at the Dogs Trust's rehoming centre in Harefield, west London, when a dog sank its teeth into her arm, London's High Court has heard.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Four teams of humanoid robots took each other on in Beijing [on Saturday], in games of three-a-side powered by artificial intelligence. While the modern game has faced accusations of becoming near-robotic in its obsession with tactical perfection, the games in China showed that AI won't be taking Kylian Mbappe's job just yet. Footage of the humanoid kickabout showed the robots struggling to kick the ball or stay upright, performing pratfalls that would have earned their flesh-and-blood counterparts a yellow card for diving. At least two robots were stretchered off after failing to regain their feet after going to ground. [...] The competition was fought between university teams, which adapted the robots with their own algorithms. In the final match, Tsinghua University's THU Robotics defeated the China Agricultural University's Mountain Sea team with a score of 5-3 to win the championship. One Tsinghua supporter celebrated their victory while also praising the competition. "They [THU] did really well," he said. "But the Mountain Sea team was also impressive. They brought a lot of surprises." Cheng Hao, CEO of Booster Robotics, said he envisions future matches between humans and robots, though he acknowledges current robots still lag behind in performance. He also said safety will need to be a top priority. You can watch highlights of the match on YouTube.

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Hollywood glamor has never looked as dreary as it did this weekend when it was reflected in the murky waters of a Venetian canal.

Aurora Maniscalco, 24, had been with her boyfriend when she plunged 33ft to the ground. Her 27-year-old partner called the emergency services, but she tragically died.

Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, said he would be 'absolutely delighted' if the reintroduction of the cats could be achieved during his two-year term.

Tech companies will be told to cover all bases to ensure offenders cannot re-register using a different name, by using identity verification systems and internet address tracking.

Sophie-Leigh Gemmell allowed the girl, who was aged under 10 at the time, to take the wheel of the vehicle in July last year.

Jose Zamora Yrala, 37, from Venezuela, ran UK-based AOG Technics and is accused of defrauding customers including leading airlines, maintenance firms, and parts suppliers.

Google has signed a deal to purchase 200 megawatts of future fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, despite the energy source not yet existing. "It's a sign of how hungry big tech companies are for a virtually unlimited source of clean power that is still years away," reports CNN. From the report: Google and Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a deal Monday in which the tech company bought 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth's first commercial fusion plant, the same amount of energy that could power roughly 200,000 average American homes. Commonwealth aims to build the plant in Virginia by the early 2030s. When it starts generating usable fusion energy is still TBD, though the company believes they can do it in the same timeframe. Google is also investing a second round of money into Commonwealth to spur development of its demonstration tokamak -- a donut-shaped machine that uses massive magnets and molten plasma to force two atoms to merge, thereby creating the energy of the sun. Google and Commonwealth did not disclose how much money is being invested, but both touted the announcement as a major step toward fusion commercialization. "We're using this purchasing power that we have to send a demand signal to the market for fusion energy and hopefully move (the) technology forward," said Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and climate at Google. Commonwealth is currently building its demonstration plant in Massachusetts, known as SPARC. It's the tokamak the company says could forever change where the world gets its power from, generating 10 million times more energy than coal or natural gas while producing no planet-warming pollution. Fuel for fusion is abundant, derived from a form of hydrogen found in seawater and tritium extracted from lithium. And unlike nuclear fission, there is no radioactive waste involved. The big challenge is that no one has yet built a machine powerful and precise enough to get more energy out of the reaction than they put into it.

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Jeremy Clarkson's controversial rule at his pub the Farmer's Dog, may be finally solved after months of backlash. 

Warwickshire county council's chief executive has been blasted by Zia Yusuf as acting like the 'monarch of Warwickshire' when she defied their party orders.

Sebastian Cizman, 12, was found unresponsive on Friday at his family's home in Glasshoughton, West Yorkshire, during his younger brother's First Holy Communion celebrations.

Of all those places which can boast 'Queen Elizabeth Slept Here', there is only one with plastic taps, Formica tables, strip lighting - and an address in Milton Keynes.

The 34-year-old - who goes by Abdel Hamid on social media - pocketed the money through 37 online appeals made between 2021 and October 2024, a court heard.