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Thomas Skinner's wife Sinead has sat down to discuss their 'horrendous' past few weeks since news of his affair broke.

It was a prison for decades before it closed in 2013

The Rivals author, who died last week aged 88 after a fall, kept diaries for much of her life and had long warned friends they were far saucier than her famous 'bonkbuster' novels.

The woman, who was only working in Blackpool that day because of staff shortages, had briefly stepped inside to pay for a delivery when Nicolette Goldrick struck.

Built from stone in 1320, it has outlived dozens of kings and queens of England and weathered the Great Fire of London and the Blitz .

The Duchess of Sussex , 43, posted the sweet image showing her holding hands with four-year-old Lilibet in the scenic grounds of their Montecito home.

The street sits very closely to a train station, making it a very attractive place for commuters

The average UK home has soared by £8,000 in a year, and in this Essex town, the average house prices have risen by more than £38,000.

Did you know Essex has been the location for several big film shoots? From Batman to Indiana Jones, Hollywood has been in the county several times.

From sprawling maize mazes to pick-your-own patches, the county offers several excellent destinations for a memorable day out.

Did you know Essex has been the location for several big film shoots? From Batman to Indiana Jones, Hollywood has been in the county several times.

The average UK home has soared by £8,000 in a year, and in this Essex town, the average house prices have risen by more than £38,000.

Essex Police is adopting a new approach to road safety considerations for elderly drivers.

From sprawling maize mazes to pick-your-own patches, the county offers several excellent destinations for a memorable day out.

Practices were rated as part of the national GP Patient Survey

The former girlfriend of paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, Joanne Mjadzelics, has said she is surprised it 'took so long' for the depraved frontman 'to be killed'. 

A demo of educational AI-powered tools by a Microsoft product manager (in March of 2024) showed "how AI has the possibility to transform various job sectors and the education system," according to one report. But that demo "includes a segment on Copilot in Excel that is likely to resonate with AI-wary software developers," writes long-time Slashdot theodp: The Copilot in Excel segment purports to show how even teachers who were too "afraid of" or "intimidated" to use Excel in the past can now just use natural language prompts to conduct Excel analysis. But Copilot advises the teacher there are no 'outliers' in the exam scores for their 17 students, whose test scores range from 27%-100%. (This is apparently due to Copilot's choice of an inappropriate outlier detection method for this size population and score range). Fittingly, the student whose 27% score is confidently-but-incorrectly deemed to be of no concern by Copilot is named after Michael Scott, the largely incompetent and unprofessional boss of The Office. (Microsoft also named the other exam takers after characters from The Office). The additional Copilot student score "analysis" touted by Microsoft in the demo is also less than impressive. It includes: 1. A vertical bar chart that fails to convey the test score distribution that a histogram would have (a rookie chart choice mistake), 2. A horizontal bar chart of student scores that only displays every other student's name and shows no score values (a rookie formatting error)... So, will teachers — like programmers — be spending a significant amount of time in the future reviewing, editing, and refining the outputs of their AI agent helpers? "Not only does it illustrate how the realities of AI assistants sometimes fall maddeningly short of the promises," argues the original submission. "The demo also shows how AI vendors and customers alike sometimes forget to review promotional AI content closely in all the AI excitement!"

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Treasury sources have said the Chancellor will not significantly increase borrowing or cut public spending in this year's Autumn budget.

I wonder whether Ralph Fiennes was served a large dollop of karma after taking a cheeky swipe at ex-wife Alex Kingston on her Strictly debut last week, writes Harriet Dean.

Nine years ago, Nasir Khalil, 48, was jailed after he duped a Slovakian child into travelling to Britain for Nikah, a Muslim wedding ceremony, just four days after she turned 16.