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Andy Burnham sent borrowing costs soaring on Monday as he vowed to exploit 'any flexibility' in the fiscal rules before naming John Healey Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The England and Newcastle legend was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer in January, having been admitted to hospital with abdominal problems.

Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday morning. He currently remains in police custody.

Some people are trying to attack new Prime Minister Andy Burnham by saying he wants to take us back to the 70s. I say be careful about that.

Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after officers found the injured victim in the Priory Woods area of Sandwell Valley Country Park on Monday, June 29.

Essex star Trewley-Precious has landed her own Channel 4 reality show and fans can't get enough

Yesterday, Andy Burnham was sworn in as Prime Minister. We are yet to hear his full policy proposals, but I'm getting a better sense of what he's about - and only 1 per cent of it is good.

Traffic is building

Drivers are facing long delays at the Dartford Crossing this morning following a reported earlier crash involving a motorbike.

A new American Heart Association scientific statement concludes that up to about 400 milligrams a day, or roughly three to five cups of plain coffee, is safe for most adults and may be linked to lower risks of cardiovascular disease. The benefits appear to depend heavily on the source and preparation, with coffee and tea looking more favorable than energy drinks, and added sugar, cream, syrups, or sweeteners potentially canceling out the upside. ScienceAlert reports: "Caffeine consumed in coffee is a key part of daily life for millions of people," says Gregory Marcus, cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and Chair of the AHA volunteer writing group behind the statement. "In our review of the most recent research, for most adults, intake of up to 400 milligrams of caffeine per day, the equivalent of up to five cups of caffeinated coffee per day without added sugars or fillers, is safe and does not increase cardiovascular risk." The statement focused on caffeine's relationship with cardiovascular risk factors, such as blood pressure and diabetes, as well as types of cardiovascular disease, including arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, stroke, and heart failure. The picture that emerges is complicated, but generally positive. [...] All up, the new AHA statement concludes that there's a growing body of evidence that caffeine isn't harmful when taken in moderation, and that coffee specifically may be beneficial. The statement was published in the journal Circulation.

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Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs

Jury selection has begun in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, 35, who is accused of ruthlessly killing her three children - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan.

The incident happened shortly after 8am when a passer-by alerted emergency services to a man armed with a knife.

British Transport Police want to speak to this woman, who they believe can help with their investigation

Carl McDaniel, 65, spoke out from his hospital bed at Bozeman Health after being attacked by a bison.

The President declared Monday that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products.

We keep our summer break going. Today, there's something floating in the pool, and I don't think it's a Snickers bar. Original. --Remy

A few years back, Adam C. was brought in to help with some performance problems that appeared while load testing a VXML Platform. The project was already well behind and they couldn't figure out why the system kept falling over under a very slight load. To make matters worse, Adam had absolutely no prior knowledge of the system or its software other than Wikipedia’s definition of what VXML is.

A veteran to these sorts of situations, Adam grabbed a coffee, a donut, and then started picking through the application logs to get a feel for what the system is doing and where something might be going wrong.

Looking in /var/log/messages, he was pleased to find with several days’ worth of messages, but over and over again, the same entry popped up:

Exception encountered writing error log.

"Seriously, who logs an error that they can't log an error? ...and is that even possible?" Adam wondered aloud after seeing the same senseless message for what he figured to be the hundredth time.

Frustrated, and hoping to learn what ludicrous conditions might precipitate a log to contain such a message, Adam dug into the source and hit paydirt in the form of this wonderful nugget of code:

public void error(String logID, String errStr) { StringBuffer errLogCmd = new StringBuffer("/usr/bin/logger -p "); try { Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime(); errLogCmd.append(errlogFacility); errLogCmd.append(" -t "); errLogCmd.append(logID); errLogCmd.append(" "); errLogCmd.append(errStr); rt.exec(errLogCmd.toString()); } catch (Exception ele) { System.out.println("Exception encountered writing error log." + ele.getMessage()); } } As he mentally parsed his way through the code, Adam could feel his breakfast tickling up from the back of his throat in reaction to the number of WTF’s he found himself facing.

He couldn’t decide what about the implementation was worse - forking off an external process to log something, the fact that log4j could have been used to send stuff to syslog (which the project used elsewhere), or that since the program's output was already piped to /usr/bin/log, just doing a System.out.println() would have been equivalent to this code.

As it turned out, this wasn’t the root cause behind the performance problems, but needless to say, that code got junked rather quickly and he moved on to looking for the next performance bottleneck.

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The thief targeted areas across Essex and London

Mr Burnham today promised to 'finally end long-term rough sleeping across the UK at the earliest opportunity' as he took the keys of No10.

Messi was bidding to lead his country to World Cup glory for the second time in as many tournaments on Sunday, but Argentina came up short on the night.