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Starting with just £100 worth of stock, the grandmother of ten now tells me she makes that sum back in 'minutes' and has queues of people around the block.

By the time staff returned to the delivery room, baby Cleo (pictured) had been cleaned up and was being cradled by her mother Jo Gray.

Vegans have four 'special skills' to navigate society, a study claims. Researchers from Concordia University dub these strategies decoding, decoupling, divesting, and chameleoning.

The guidance has been issued to teachers across northern England as part of a publication intended to highlight 'sensitivity and awareness around faiths and beliefs'.

Winston Churchill and Jane Austen will be replaced by the likes of otters and badgers on UK banknotes - in a decision described as 'total bonkers' by critics.

The weather we've all been waiting for is finally nearby, and with warmer temperatures on the way, it's time to start thinking about outdoor furniture.

Princess Andre opened up on her mum Katie's dramatic weight loss and slammed the 'awful' comments she gets from trolls over her appearance on season two of her ITV show Princess Diaries.

CCTV footage from Bilezzik, a shop selling gold-plated jewellery in Green Lanes, north London , shows one of the armed gang driving a moped into the shop on February 24.

Former Towie star Chloe Lewis has called for a new law change after her son's finger was 'sliced off' in a horror ice skating accident

A British mother has sparked online debate after revealing that she served alcohol at her toddler's birthday party - with some parents claiming it should 'never' be done.

Bono and Angela Merkel have been handed gongs in the European Union's first honours list. 

Some broadband and mobile providers are promising no price rises until 2027 for new customers, so can you beat the April hikes by switching now? We reveal what deals are available.

Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attached

The UK government has refused to estimate the cost of its digital identity system, saying this depends on what it decides after a consultation exercise launched yesterday.…

Greater Anglia has won four national awards for train performance at the Golden Whistles.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service completed 2,829 home fire safety visits in February as part of dedicated Days of Action.

Valve is facing a new consumer class-action lawsuit two weeks after New York sued the video game company for "letting children and adults illegally gamble" with loot boxes. The new lawsuit is similar, alleging that loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 are "carefully engineered to extract money from consumers, including children, through deceptive, casino-style psychological tactics." "We believe Valve deliberately engineered its gambling platform and profited enormously from it," Steve Berman, founder and managing partner at law firm Hagens Berman, said in a press release. "Consumers played these games for entertainment, unaware that Valve had allegedly already stacked the odds against them. We intend to hold Valve accountable and put money back in the pockets of consumers." PC Gamer reports: The system is well known to anyone who's played a Valve multiplayer game: Earn a locked loot box by playing, pay $2.50 for a key, unlock it, get a digital doohickey that's sometimes worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars but far more often is worth just a few pennies. Is that gambling? If these cases go to court, we'll find out. The full complaint points out that the unlocking process is even designed to look like a slot machine: "Images of possible items scroll across the screen, spinning fast at first, then slowing to a stop on the player's 'prize.' Players buy and open loot boxes for the same reason people play slot machines -- the hope of a valuable payout." Loot boxes, the complaint continues, are not "incidental features" of Valve's games, but rather "a deliberate, carefully engineered revenue model." So too is the Steam Community Market, and Steam itself, which the suit claims is "deliberately designed" to enable the sale of digital items on third-party marketplaces through "trade URLs," despite Valve's terms of service prohibiting off-platform sales. And while the debate over whether loot boxes constitute a form of gambling continues to rage, the suit claims Valve's system does indeed qualify under Washington law, which defines gambling as "staking or risking something of value upon the outcome of a contest of chance or a future contingent event not under the person's control or influence." "Valve's loot boxes satisfy every element of this definition," the lawsuit alleges. "Users stake money (the price of a key) on the outcome of a contest of chance (the random selection of a virtual item), and the items received are 'things of value' under RCW 9.46.0285 because they can be sold for real money through Valve's own marketplace and through third-party marketplaces that Valve has fostered and facilitated."

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Greater Anglia has won four national awards for train performance at the Golden Whistles.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service completed 2,829 home fire safety visits in February as part of dedicated Days of Action.

GUY ADAMS: An impromptu decision by players to stand in silence on the pitch - rather than sing the Islamic Republic's national anthem - escalated into a major diplomatic incident.

Admitting regretting becoming a mother is taboo in parent land. But I've had quite a few women tell me secretly that they wouldn't have kids if they had their time again.