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The former Arsenal star made her dancing debut on the popular prime-time BBC One show alongside her professional partner Carlos Gu - and she didn't disappoint.

The Chancellor is said to be considering getting rid of the economic and fiscal outlook published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) each March.

US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.

The Indonesian Gymnastics Federation anonounced the death of 19-year-old Naufal Takdir Al Bari after he had been in intensive care for 12 days.

The BBC reports that a million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species "began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study." It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species, including Neanderthals, for much longer than we've come to believe, they say. The scientists claim their analysis "totally changes" our understanding of human evolution and, if correct, it would certainly rewrite a key early chapter in our history. But other experts in a field where disagreement over our emergence on the planet is rife, say that the new study's conclusions are plausible but far from certain. The discovery, published in the leading scientific journal Science, shocked the research team, which included scientists from a university in China and the UK's Natural History Museum. "From the very beginning, when we got the result, we thought it was unbelievable. How could that be so deep into the past?" said Prof Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who co-led the analysis. "But we tested it again and again to test all the models, use all the methods, and we are now confident about the result, and we're actually very excited." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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Porterhouse Wine Bar and Kitchen are in the shortlist for this years Essex Eats Awards

Over the years you've probably recogised a number of sets while watching your favourite telly show.

The vehicle crashed into the pedestrians in Lowbourne in Melksham, Wiltshire at around 1.30pm on Saturday. The two women were rushed to hospital.

Natasha Hewitt, 35, died three days after bungling NHS call-handlers did not urgently refer her to hospital for potentially life-saving treatment.

Henry Newey, 18, left ginger tabby cat Marshall with 'suspected PTSD' after violently dragging the pet with a rope around its neck before swinging it aggressively against a brick wall.

It has been named among the best places to live in the county - and its clear to see why

The luxury property in affluent St John's Wood, north London comes with the added bonus of neighbouring Sir Paul McCartney 's London home.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland has been dubbed the 'Martha Stewart of the Instagram age' after her homeware brand found success in the US, according to the Telegraph.

The presenter, 44, has collaborated with companies including Garnier, BeauyPie and Dunelm Mill, along with her own lifestyle brand Wylde Moon, after leaving This Morning in 2023.

The House of Guinness has gripped Netflix viewers this week thanks to its fascinating tale about the Irish brewery family - but the modern day scions of that dynasty are just as intriguing.

The Steelers' preparations for their game in Dublin went awry after one of their players was reportedly 'jumped and robbed' during a night out.

OLIVER HOLT AT BETHPAGE BLACK: But what happened to McIlroy at Bethpage Black on Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon, in his fourballs match, crossed a line.

Six months ago California had 48% more public and "shared" private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports — and announced this week that there's now 68% more EV charger ports than the number of gasoline nozzles statewide. "Thanks to the state's ever-expanding charger network, 94% of Californians live within 10 minutes of an EV charger," according to the announcement from the state's energy policy agency. And the California Energy Commission staff told CleanTechnica they expect more chargers in the future. "We are watching increased private investment by consortiums like IONNA and OEMs like Rivian, Ford, and others that are actively installing EV charging stations throughout the state." Clean Technica notes in 2019, the state had roughly 42,000 charging ports and now there are a little over 200,000. (And today there's about 800,000 home EV chargers.) This week California announced another milestone: that in 2024 nearly 23% of all the state's new truck sales — that's trucks, buses, and vans — were zero-emission vehicles. (The state subsidizes electric trucks — $200 million was requested on the program's first day.) Greenhouse gas emissions in California are down 20% since 2000 — even as the state's GDP increased 78% in that same time period all while becoming the world's fourth largest economy. The state also continues to set clean energy records. California was powered by two-thirds clean energy in 2023, the latest year for which data is available — the largest economy in the world to achieve this level of clean energy. The state has run on 100% clean electricity for some part of the day almost every day this year. "Last year, California ran on 100% clean electricity for the equivalent of 51 days," notes another announcement, which points out California has 15,763 MW of battery storage capacity — roughly a third of the amount projected to be needed by 2045.

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After moving north to the blue side of Manchester in a £100million deal from Aston Villa in the summer of 2021, the 30-year-old enjoyed four years under Pep Guardiola.