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Firefighters tackled a rapidly developing house fire that gutted a home in Hutton last night.

Firefighters tackled a rapidly developing house fire that gutted a home in Hutton last night.

The RAC is predicting that the number of private parking tickets issued to drivers in the year will hit a new record of 17m when government figures are published next month.

There are people parking outside my house at all times of day before wandering up her drive to browse the cakes. They are frequently noisy and disruptive.

MSC Cruises used elements of the show including the theme tune in a contest judged by Ms Ballas - who even used the famous paddle to reveal the scores.

The mystery of Sarah Ferguson's whereabouts deepens. I can disclose that the former Duchess of York surprised friends and family members by failing to attend the wedding of her beloved niece.

At last month's local elections , it was Nigel Farage's war cry: 'Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out.' In Makerfield, everyone else is saying the same.

Dame Helen Mirren has broken her silence after being branded an 'evil Zionist bitch' during a shocking street confrontation in London.

The motion was brought to the Greens' spring conference earlier this year, but failed to pass after members filibustered to prevent it being heard.

TV comic Paddy Young has been rushed to hospital after a freak accident. 

Katie Price's husband Lee Andrews has reportedly been freed from prison after a rollercoaster month.   

Central Park in Chelmsford city centre was cordoned off following an incident.

Central Park in Chelmsford city centre was cordoned off following an incident.

Lawes Agricultural Trust, a charitable trust focusing on agricultural research, is selling Rothamsted Manor in Harpenden due to high running and renovation costs.

In the past, it has been said that residents often had distinctive brown teeth

UPDATE: Amazon CEO's Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models. "Anthropic said on Friday it will 'abruptly disable' its most advanced AI models for all users," reports Reuters, "after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. The company received the export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, without being given specific details of its national security concern, Anthropic said in a statement." Anthropic's blog post writes that the directive applies to foreign nationals "whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance." "Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected." We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET)... Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or "jailbreaking" Fable 5... We have not even received a disclosure of a concerning non-universal potential jailbreak that led to a harmful result. The potential jailbreaks that have been disclosed to us are either entirely benign responses or are minor findings that provide no Mythos-specific uplift. To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the government. We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI's GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe... We are complying with the government's legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people. If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers. As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Reuters notes that Amazon's cloud unit AWS "said late on Friday that Anthropic has asked it to revoke access to the models for 'all users in all regions.'" Dean Ball, a former White House official who contributed to the AI Action Plan the administration issued in the summer of 2025, said in a post on X that the order suggests all "non-Americans" would be restricted from using Anthropic's latest models, including those based in the U.S. "This means you should expect to have to prove your citizenship to use Anthropic models," Ball said. Several key Anthropic personnel, including co-founder Chris Olah, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy and philosopher Amanda Askell, were born outside the United States.

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Dave says he is delighted to receive the award - 'not bad for a boy from Nelson who once worked as a builder's labourer, draining rain out of his boot holes!'

On a freezing morning last December, in a treeline north of Kharkiv, the future of warfare arrived.

She's known for her incredible interiors and Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury are leaving no expense spared as they do up their £5million mansion. 

Regardless of how the next few weeks pan out for Brazil, one thing is certain: history will be made.