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Essex drivers are feeling the pinch as petrol prices hit their highest level in almost four years. Here are the cheapest and dearest petrol stations in Essex.

Jesy Nelson is dating the ex boyfriend of TOWIE star Lydia Bright.

Lynda La Plante said a driving ban would effectively end her writing career, as she would not be able to meet contacts for her works.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Behind the Black: In a new bid to get the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to move from Hawaii, which has blocked its construction for more than a decade, the Spanish government has put together a $1.14 billion package that would not only pay for construction on the Canary Islands, but would finance an additional half century of operations. Tech Times provides some additional details: The package is conditional on the TMT International Observatory formally choosing La Palma as its construction site. The financing architecture has three pillars and two additional contingent instruments. The first pillar is 400 million euros (approximately $456 million USD) from Spain's Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, routed through the Centre for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI). This figure was first pledged a year ago in July 2025 as Spain's initial bid. The second pillar is a 300 million-euro (approximately $342 million USD) loan from the EIB [European Investment Bank] itself -- subject to satisfactory completion of the bank's technical, financial, and legal due diligence and approval by its governing bodies. The third is a potential 300 million-euro (approximately $342 million USD) participation from the Instituto de Credito Oficial (ICO), Spain's state development finance institution, evaluated under equivalent conditions to the EIB loan but subject to its own separate analysis. Spain's export credit agency, Cesce, may also provide coverage instruments, and the EIB has left open the possibility of expanding its support through intermediated financing mechanisms or guarantees.

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I had my first taste of alcohol aged just 13. It was the era of WKD alcopops and Bacardi Breezers - cheap, sugary drinks - and I immediately loved the warm, hazy feeling they gave me.

President Donald Trump fired back against claims from Iranian officials that they were not negotiating a peace agreement with the United States.

The prospect of negotiations between the two Right-wing parties was sparked after Restore's Rupert Lowe posted a video outlining his requests of Nigel Farage in return for a deal.

Peter Forshaw was running up the pitch during a 'lads v dads' football match when he suddenly felt an itchy sensation across his arms - and found himself struggling to breathe.

Stavros Dimitriadis scrolled through his camera roll at a nurses' station inside University Hospital Coventry and lingered on an indecent image and a video of him engaging in a sex act.

Andy Carter, the National Lottery's 'fixer' who has helped guide more than 2,500 winners, says the secret WhatsApp group is a key way for winners to get support from each other.

Thylane Blondeau has finally shared the making of her Miu Miu wedding dress after she married DJ Ben Attal last month.

The TV presenter and author was said to be 'quitting the Chipping Norton set' in February after listing his Oxfordshire home on the market.

Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts

Health service breast screening misses 95 per cent of young women who go on to develop cancer , researchers have found.

Frequent submitter Capybara James sends us this simple snippet, which highlights that even when you have the lovely convenience of Optional types, you can use them wrong.

if (StringUtils.hasLength(dto.getAssetModelUUID()) // Other conditions ) { return Optional.ofNullable(dto); }

We access the getAssetModelUUID member of dto, and if it's a non-empty string, we can then return a nullable of this thing that's definitely not null in the first place.

Okay, in the scheme of things, that's not that bad. All we're really doing is just not using the syntactic sugar that automatically boxes your dto into a nullable type. On it's own, it's not bad, just ugly. But like all things, it doesn't exist on its own. It exists inside of a giant pile of code where this pattern is used all the time. Even functions which don't return nullable types box (and unbox) the type. Optional is scattered through the code like a magic ward against null reference exceptions.

Does it help? No, not really, the code is buggy and error prone. Will it ever get fixed? Probably not in this lifetime.

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Prof Frith authored pioneering research in 1960s and 70s that defined the medical establishment's understanding of autism.

Voters in Clacton will face a ballot paper that is nearly a metre long at the upcoming by-election. This follows a record 34 candidates standing.

Voters in Clacton will face a ballot paper that is nearly a metre long at the upcoming by-election. This follows a record 34 candidates standing.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz flaunted their lavish weekend away with his godfather Elton John, after narrowly missing his estranged parents in St Tropez.

In 2007, after several spells in prison, Terry Ellis fulfilled his ambition with a job he'd later call his 'criminal Mount Everest'. It involved a huge, fortress-like data centre operated by telecoms giant Verizon.