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Tripadvisor has revealed its winners of its annual Travellers' Choice Awards: Best of the Best Restaurants, with a spot in Essex being recognised.

The Great British Schools Guide conducted an in-depth analysis of official survey data on which schools scored highest on safety according to parents.

There were a number of postcodes across Essex that won prizes in the People's Postcode Lottery in September 2025. Were you a winner?

The schools have been recognised as having good quality of education

Developer adding more homes to one of the huge developments

Keith Urban is reportedly 'going through some stuff' amid his split with Nicole Kidman, who filed for divorce on September 30 after 19 years of marriage. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: US scientists have, for the first time, made early-stage human embryos by manipulating DNA taken from people's skin cells and then fertilizing it with sperm. The technique could overcome infertility due to old age or disease, by using almost any cell in the body as the starting point for life. It could even allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child. [...] The Oregon Health and Science University research team's technique takes the nucleus -- which houses a copy of the entire genetic code needed to build the body -- out of a skin cell. This is then placed inside a donor egg that has been stripped of its genetic instructions. So far, the technique is like the one used to create Dolly the Sheep -- the world's first cloned mammal -- born back in 1996. However, this egg is not ready to be fertilized by sperm as it already contains a full suite of chromosomes. You inherit 23 of these bundles of DNA from each of your parents for a total of 46, which the egg already has. So the next stage is to persuade the egg to discard half of its chromosomes in a process the researchers have termed "mitomeiosis" (the word is a fusion of mitosis and meiosis, the two ways cells divide). The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, showed 82 functional eggs were made. These were fertilized with sperm and some progressed onto the early stages of embryos development. None were developed beyond the six-day-stage. The technique is far from polished as the egg randomly chooses which chromosomes to discard. It needs to end up with one of each of the 23 types to prevent disease, but ends up with two of some and none of others. There is also a poor success rate (around 9%) and the chromosomes miss an important process where they rearrange their DNA, called crossing over. Prof Mitalipov, a world-renowned pioneer in the field, told me: "We have to perfect it. "Eventually, I think that's where the future will go because there are more and more patients that cannot have children."

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Donald Trump claims it's the route to 'eternal peace' and 'potentially a great day for civilisation'.

Chris Brown, 63, is on a mission to visit all eight Poles of Inaccessibility - the exact spot on a continental land mass or ocean that is furthest from the sea or coast in any direction.

More than four years have passed since Kate Owen's friend Sarm Heslop disappeared from he boyfriend's yacht in the Caribbean. 

They're made for people living with disabilities

Authorities in the city of Sariwon have been ordered to conduct physical examinations of women suspected to have undergone breast augmentation surgery.

The first research of its kind has found that at least 29,000 repeat offenders were behind more than 130,000 crimes a year, costing  he public purse £5bn a year.

For centuries the Freemasons have been cloaked in secrecy, fuelling speculation about shadowy handshakes, arcane rituals and hidden influence at the highest levels of power.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban shocked fans on Monday when it emerged they had split after 19 years of marriage.

The Bishop of Sheffield, the Right Rev Pete Wilcox, who is a huge fan of the Magpies, emerged as a late contender for the position over the past few days.

Nicole Kidman reportedly feels 'betrayed' by her husband Keith Urban amid rumours he has already moved on with a younger woman in the music industry.

The singer, 67, was rushed into intensive care back in 2023 after contracting a bacterial infection, forcing her to pause her world tour.

The Doctor Who star, 49, was detained by police at his family home in Kensington, west London, and taken into custody for questioning last week.

The celebrated actor, 86, smiled for the awaiting cameras as he arrived at the opening of The Importance of Being Earnest at The Noel Coward Theatre.