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The Gazette held a pop-up stall in St Nicholas Square on Friday in effort to meet with locals and to raise awareness on the A120: Road to Safety campaign.

The National Audit Office said only applicants who were female, of black heritage or from lower socio-economic backgrounds could apply for its diversity internship this summer.

Last year 43 per cent of drivers who received speeding-related points on their licence were aged 45 to 64 compared to 22 per cent aged 17 to 34, according to the DVLA.

I'd built my identity around sobriety - so when I chose to drink again, I feared I'd undo everything. In the end, it wasn't the alcohol I'd misunderstood.

Rubbed into the shoulders at 6pm, it sent me into a super-deep sleep at 10 (I'm usually wide-awake at midnight) and I've never felt better.

Maya Jama wowed in a plunging black dress as she shared stunning snaps from a trip to Morocco on Sunday - after breaking her silence on her recent split from Ruben Dias.

The football star, 24, was seen on a bike ride in the sunshine with his bride-to-be, after a brief stop in New York to celebrate the premiere of his documentary.

Science magazine reports: For decades, string theory promised a "theory of everything" that described all particles and forces as tiny vibrating strings. Physicists hoped it could also solve one of the field's deepest problems: reconciling quantum mechanics with gravity. But as string theory grew increasingly elaborate — and experimentally unreachable — many physicists lost hope. Now, some researchers are revisiting the theory from first principles. In a paper in press at Physical Review Letters, Clifford Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues lay out a small set of assumptions about the universe and show that they inevitably give rise to string theory.... Cheung's study, along with another one posted to arXiv in January, starts with two reasonably conservative assumptions: that the probabilities of all possible outcomes of an event add up to 100%, and that the laws of physics are consistent for observers moving at different speeds. Each group then posits additional assumptions that have not been borne out by observations. Cheung's analysis invokes "ultrasoftness," the idea that the probability of certain particle interactions drops off at a particular rate at high energies. The second study, led by University of Michigan physicist Henriette Elvang, instead assumes "supersymmetry," a maximal coupling between matter and forces. Both groups conclude the only theory that can satisfy their assumptions is one that looks like string theory... Cheung and Elvang stress that their aim is not to prove the inevitability of string theory. "I don't have a dog in the fight; I just work here," Cheung says. Rather, the goal is to explore the space of possible theories under rigid constraints — regardless of whether they reflect reality... The one thing the researchers all agree on is that the field would benefit from more alternative models to string theory. Cheung sees the agnostic, bottom-up exploration as a step in that direction. "You can either give up on the problem because it's too culturally toxic, or you can ask: If you want to find an alternative, what do you need?" he says. "Now, we know exactly what to do." Thanks to Slashdot reader sciencehabit for sharing the article.

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Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori unveiled another makeover as she channeled Princess Leia as the couple stepped out for date night in Amsterdam on Friday.

Melissa Rein Lively, 40, hit the headlines earlier this week after she accepted a conditional caution over the incident outside Bond Street tube station in Mayfair last October.

The Greater Manchester mayor is currently standing as Labour's candidate in the Makerfield by-election in his bid to return to the House of Commons.

Dua Lipa and her new husband Callum Turner partied until 6am as their £1.5 million Sicilian wedding ended with a spectacular ten-minute firework display. 

Michelle Keegan posed for a mirror selfie in a swimsuit as she enjoyed a lavish weekend at the £1k-a-night Corinthia Hotel in London this weekend.

Documents show Daniel Kebede, boss of the militant National Education Union (NEU), got a total package worth a staggering £164,654 last year.

The BBC Breakfast presenter, 51, received a hefty pay rise last year from bosses despite being reprimanded after she was accused of bullying and hauled into a meeting over a sex jibe.

The killer has never been convicted

Faith Chareka, who worked in the emergency department for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, was convicted of fraud by abuse of position.

Jeroen Willem Johannes Boere was born in Arnhem on November 18, 1967. By his family's account he was a handful from the start - a born prankster.

A doctor has revealed why more people who died may have traveled to the afterlife and failed to remember the shocking experience.

Ahmad Alkozai, from Birmingham, was arrested in the Bristol area on Friday, less than 24 hours after the victim was killed in Sparkbrook.