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Though it was once an embarrassing fashion faux pas, all the it-girls are now flashing their socks, including London-based Lily Allen, who sported a mesh pair in the shots for her new album.

The hairdresser chatted away as she parted my hair down the middle, playing around to see what style would suit me. Suddenly her friendly chatter stopped.

When Gossip Girl launched in 2007, it propelled the likes of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley into superstardom and made them instant household names.

Travel enthusiast Sevi Nabiyeva has shared a video of her visit to Scotney Castle in Kent, which she describes as 'pure autumn magic' and 'feels like you've stepped into a fairytale'

She's the quintessentially British actress who was catapulted to global fame in The White Lotus. Those credentials led Marks and Spencer bosses to woo Aimee Lou Wood.

With party season fast approaching, the hunt for the perfect outfit is officially on. And if you're eyeing a statement dress, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden has just delivered major inspiration.

Wiggins has been open about his struggles with his mental health in recent years, admitting he had become 'a 'functioning addict' and had been doing 's***loads of cocaine post-retirement.

Cheryl Tweedy stole the spotlight in a chic black gown as she arrived at the annual Harper's Bazaar Women Of The Year Awards on Thursday night.

Trains have been suspended on part of the line between Southend and London

An independent restaurant from Essex offering Italian specialities has scooped up a national industry award.

An independent restaurant from Essex offering Italian specialities has scooped up a national industry award.

A person has died this morning after being hit by a train

It's got great commuter value, is close to a high street and has plenty of greenery

In a recent article published in the New York Times, author Casey Michael Henry argues that today's tech industry keeps borrowing dystopian sci-fi aesthetics and ideas -- often the parts that were meant as warnings -- and repackages them as exciting products without recognizing that they were originally cautionary tales to avoid. "The tech industry is delivering on some of the futuristic notions of late-20th-century science fiction," writes Henry. "Yet it seems, at times, bizarrely unaware that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical -- dismal visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us." Here's an excerpt from the report: You worry that someone in today's tech world might watch "Gattaca" -- a film that features a eugenicist future in which people with ordinary DNA are relegated to menial jobs -- and see it as an inspirational launching point for a collaboration between 23andMe and a charter school. The material on Sora, for instance, can feel oddly similar to the jokes about crass entertainment embedded in dystopian films and postmodern novels. In the movie "Idiocracy," America loved a show called "Ow! My Balls!" in which a man is hit in the testicles in increasingly florid ways. "Robocop" imagined a show about a goggle-eyed pervert with an inane catchphrase. "The Running Man" had a game show in which contestants desperately collected dollar bills and climbed a rope to escape ravenous dogs. That Sora could be prompted to imagine a game show in which Michel Foucault chokeslams Ronald Reagan, or Prince battles an anaconda, doesn't feel new; it feels like a gag from a 1990s writer or a film about social decay. The echoes aren't all accidental. Modern design has been influenced by our old techno-dystopias -- particularly the cyberpunk variety, with its neon-noir gloss and "high tech, low life" allure. From William Gibson novels to films like "The Matrix," the culture has taken in countless ruined cityscapes, all-controlling megacorporations, high-tech body modifications, V.R.-induced illnesses, deceptive A.I. paramours, mechanical assassins and leather-clad hacker antiheroes, navigating a dissociative cyberspace with savvily repurposed junk-tech. This was not a world many people wanted to live in, but its style and ethos seem to reverberate in the tech industry's boldest visions of the future.

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Sydney Sweeney earned major support from the conservative community after coolly shutting down critics of her American Eagle 'good genes' ad.

Former NFL star Antonio Brown is in US Marshals custody after being extradited from Dubai on an attempted murder charge, law enforcement officials have confirmed to the Daily Mail.

As I was traveling this week (just home today), conveyances of all sorts were on my mind.

Llarry A. warned "This intersection is right near my house. Looks like it's going to be inconvenient for a while..." Keeping this in mind, I chose to take the train rather than drive.

 

Unfortunately US trains are restricted to plodding sublight speeds, but Mate has it better. "I love how the Swiss Federal Railways keep investing in new rolling stock... like this one that can teleport from one side of the country to the other in 0 minutes?! "

 

And Michael R. 's TfL seems to operate between parallel universes. "I was happy to see that the "not fitted" Northern Line train actually rolled in 2 mins later."

 

Daniel D. 's elevator went up but the ubiquitous screen went down. Daniel even slipped a bit of selfie into his submission. Sneaky. "This display usually features some looping video. This time it featured only desktop with bunch of scripts / *.bat files. I guess it's better when elevator's display crashes than when an actual elevator crashes?"

 

Joel C. 's elevator had a different fault. "The screen in my hotel's elevator is not sending quite the message they probably want."

 

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The road is one of the most dangerous in Britain, according to the Department for Transport

Shirley Valentine, the romantic comedy smash hit of the 1980s, made a global star of Pauline Collins, an actress already much loved by British television viewers.

As December draws ever closer, the founder of a Essex charity advent calendar is calling for help from the public to help design the 2025 logo.