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The government’s decision to cancel the A12 widening scheme has cost taxpayers £212.5million so far, Department for Transport figures reveal.

They could have completely changed the landscape of the city

In the early '80s, the rising pop star met the rough-around-the-edges 'street kid' when she moved to New York City and they snuck around together for years.

Keith Urban is said to be heartbroken after learning that his former wife Nicole Kidman has reportedly moved on with a new man.

A Georgia mother desperately cried out for help after realizing her car had been stolen with her two-year-old daughter still in the back seat.

The 2023 promotional clip posted by TikTok user Nicolas Nuvan had circulated on the social media platform as of late, amid ongoing legal developments in the case involving the musician.

The 36-year-old Australian actress was set to reprise her role as the beloved doll, with 45-year-old co-star Ryan Gosling joining, but negotiations at Warner Bros. have reportedly left the project in limbo.

A woman found her police officer ex-boyfriend had used Flock's camera system 600 times to look up the location of her and her daughter, reports the Washington Post (Alternate URL here). (She found out through Have I Been Flocked, described as "a website that aggregates police search logs made available through public records.") But it turns out dozens more police officers have also misused Flock... Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes, including to stalk women without their knowledge or consent, a Post analysis of police and court records found. In 26 of these cases, police investigators and prosecutors said the officers used the technology to spy on their wives, their girlfriends, their exes, their exes' new partners or women they wanted to meet. In other cases, police or prosecutors have not specified the alleged surveillance targets. Flock's system was used in 46 of the cases analyzed by The Post, while the other cases involved competing products... After The Post relayed its findings to Flock, the company said in a statement it "will soon be announcing better filters and tools to stop abuse before it happens...." In April, the company rolled out a new voluntary "audit assistance" feature, which agencies can choose to enable, that automatically scans officers' searches for suspicious activity, such as queries repeatedly targeting the same vehicle or run by officers off the clock. In an interview with The Post, Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said misuse of its systems is inevitable and that the company is focused on providing tools to catch perpetrators after the fact... "We're not going to change humans, and humans make bad decisions," Langley said. "What we can do is make sure that they know if you use this tool, you will be held accountable...." Through automated license-plate reader systems, or ALPRs, officers could trace the rhythms and travels of their subjects' daily lives, leading in some instances to violent confrontations, moments of psychological manipulation, and threats of coercion and control, the analysis found. - In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month. - In Kansas, a police chief who tracked his ex through Flock sneaked up on her while she was intimate with another man, a state police certification body alleged, leading to his firing. - In Florida, a deputy speeding to stop a young actress he'd added to a watch list for a license-plate tool called Guardian nearly caused a head-on crash, according to a police report and video from his dashboard camera. The deputy was arrested in March, and his attorney declined to comment. - And in California, prosecutors said a former deputy, Alexander Vanny, used Flock as part of a months-long campaign of "stalking" and "humiliating" his former fiancée that also involved following her around town and installing a hidden camera in her roommate's bathroom, according to a sentencing brief... While some of the searches resulted in officers' firings, prosecutions and prison sentences, police departments in other cases allowed officers to continue using the systems even after receiving warnings that they were being misused... An array of privacy advocates has argued that Flock could deter bad actors by making simple changes to its product, such as requiring officers to label every search with a criminal case number. Some policing experts also warned that agencies' inconsistencies in developing and enforcing standard procedures for license-plate readers could lead to further misconduct. With no federal laws governing use and only a patchwork of state laws, many of the country's roughly 18,000 police agencies are left to decide their rules on their own... Langley, Flock's chief, has dismissed pushes by activists for the company to further limit how officers use its product. "No one elected me the police chief of America," he told Forbes last year, adding, "I don't think it's our job to police the police." The Post also got this quote from an officer was fired and sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to charges of computer-system misuse, stalking and battery. "Pretty much everybody uses that computer system" improperly in the department, he said, and "they don't audit it [nearly] as much as they should." Flock told The Post it now has over 120,000 cameras in more than 6,000 communities, recording 20 billion license plate scans every month.

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Archie Beston was fatally stabbed in the heart in Kingston-upon-Thames by habitual knife carrier Tyrone Bryan, 20, a one-man crimewave nicknamed 'Red Alert'.

Scotland Yard has told ministers gang members are unlikely to be convicted or even prosecuted in murder cases if a campaign succeeds to ban music lyrics from prosecutions.

Georgina Rodriguez reflected on being a mum to her fiancé Cristiano Ronaldo's son after they enjoyed a 'special' family holiday together.

The posts have gone down a treat with his newfound fans, after Jude-mania reached fever pitch this month when he was crowned England's highest goalscorer.

The suspect, believed to be a 26-year-old Afghan who was a cleaner at the building where Elisabeth-Jane Ross was staying, has been arrested in connection with her 'intentional homicide'.

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King Charles has reportedly received an olive branch from his son, 41, in the form of an invitation to the multi-sport event, held in Birmingham.

Only the most determined or those with nothing to lose remain in Ceuta. They number a few thousand now and refuse to budge from their little outpost, an encampment on a hill on the edge of the city.

This photo shows him and his wife Anna showing off their rings, together with his mother Olena and their baby son Artem and other siblings.

The Institute of Directors (IoD) said cost pressures and political upheaval had led to forecasts sagging among business leaders.

Andy Burnham has finally decided to go where previous Labour leaders have feared to tread. Namely the White Cliffs of Dover, to announce the French farce to stop the small boats will finally end.

Figures show 45 of 131 bosses earned more than £100,000 last year - with one in six raking in packages worth as much as the Prime Minister's salary of £170,000 or more.