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The Butchers Arms in Dunmow took the title at this year’s Muddy Stilettos Awards, which celebrate the best independent businesses across the county.

The Butchers Arms in Dunmow took the title at this year’s Muddy Stilettos Awards, which celebrate the best independent businesses across the county.

A video from 2003 that appears to show Sean 'Diddy' Combs inviting then 12-year-old actress Daveigh Chase to an 'afterparty' has resurfaced online following news of her death at the age of 35.

Jelly Roll's wife Bunnie XO has broken her silence on their shock divorce as she revealed the fight that finally ended their 10-year marriage for good.

A study found that new road, railway and tram projects cost 65 per cent more than equivalent schemes in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada or South Korea.

Michel Barnier, the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, says the UK could regain its special terms if it rejoins the bloc again. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision to shut down the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), but suspicion immediately focused on the network's role in tracking climate change. But the OOI also provides data that's useful for weather forecasting and fisheries management, leading to widespread opposition. Today, it appears that the opposition has won, as the government will announce that it's reversing the decision. The big remaining question is how much damage the OOI took during the intervening month. [...] The OOI is a federally supported resource that provides ocean data for use by academic researchers, government planners, and private companies. It consists of arrays of monitoring systems in several locations in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that can track things like currents, salinity, chemical levels, temperatures, and tectonic activity. (There are over 100 individual entries on the page that display the data gathered by the system.) Obviously, there are many potential uses of that data. The fact that it has been gathered continuously for a decade means it can help track changes in how carbon dioxide and heat enter the oceans. This is probably what made it a target for the climate change denialists who helped set the Trump administration's policy. Those policymakers are perfectly happy to annoy people with environmental concerns, but they apparently neglected to consider how upset everyone else would be about losing access to the other data. The ensuing public backlash led the Senate on Wednesday to unanimously agree with a measure that would block the government from taking down the OOI. Today's decision may indicate that the administration recognized it had gotten itself into a fight it knew it was losing. The National Science Foundation formally announced the decision, stating: "effective immediately, [it] will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays and will continue operations including planned maintenance." The agency added that it "appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data" from the OOI. The NSF also said it would "issue a Dear Colleague Letter to collect input from stakeholders and convene an expert panel to assess observational needs, evaluate available data sources, consider responses ... and help the agency identify a sustainable path for NSF's ocean observing systems."

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Trump brought some humor to the event when describing the prestige of the nation's highest military honor.

The World Cup was rocked by more violence on Thursday, when, minutes before Mexico's Group A clash against South Korea, chaos erupted as fans attempted to break into fan parks.

Mr Burnham was joined by actor Hugh Grant and comedian Steve Coogan in the dying throes of the by-election campaign, as he said he was 'fighting on every front' to win.

As Taylor Swift strode into Electric Lady Studios, she flashed a knowing smirk at the hordes of paparazzi waiting outside.

Would Andy Burnham make a better Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?

Each student at Ysgol Y Garreg school in Gwynedd, north Wales, is costing authorities £21,000 to educate - triple the county average - after its pupil numbers dwindled.

ITV has received praise for its World Cup studio set in front of the Brooklyn Bridge and the New York skyline - yet things have almost now gone wrong due to the weather.

Chase died aged 35 after being hospitalised for malnutrition, following health battles with meningitis, a blood infection and sepsis .

The England football team's magnificent start to their World Cup campaign has understandably led to a surge in national pride.

Nelson Peltz, a wizened 83-year-old billionaire who made his fortune in the food industry, has been the scourge of some of Britain's most esteemed food and consumer-goods companies.

Katherine Ryan bought her daughter 17-year-old Violet a sparkly £30k car for her birthday on Thursday as the teen proudly posed in front of her new wheels. 

A van reading 'Muslims for Reform' was gleefully shared by supporters of Reform Britain, claiming it demonstrated the 'Islamification' of Mr Farage's party.

The suspected blaze was reported around 4pm and the tunnel was evacuated, causing long queues and forcing drivers from their cars as five fire engines arrived.