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Bella Hadid showcased her jaw-dropping figure in a blue swimsuit as she soaked up the sun on a yacht in France on Monday.

Pete Wicks and Olivia Attwood have revealed that they were snubbed from a recent KISS Radio trip to Ibiza.

Five separate water main bursts in Braintree have left roads flooded, homes disrupted and taps running dry on the hottest day of the year.

Who is the best Premier League manager? For the last 10 years, it has been a rather pointless debate - any answer other than Pep Guardiola would be wrong. But now we need a new man on the throne.

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The Kremlin sent the chilling message through one of Trump's most senior officials, and the clock is already ticking.

Questions have started to mount as to why the college student did not join his siblings Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany Trump on the island to celebrate the nuptials.

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Three water mains have burst in Braintree leaving hundreds of homes without water on the hottest day of the year.

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Martyn Entwistle, 39, and Gemma Entwistle, 36, of Harwich, and their son Mason, 13, were stopped from boarding a British Airways Flight (BA) to Alicante in Spain, on Saturday.

Martyn Entwistle, 39, and Gemma Entwistle, 36, of Harwich, and their son Mason, 13, were stopped from boarding a British Airways Flight (BA) to Alicante in Spain, on Saturday.

Heather James took to Instagram to welcome her 'beautiful new granddaughter' Coralie Susan Deborah James in a touching post four years after the British cancer activist's death.

by George Whittaker

The GNOME Project has officially opened the development cycle for GNOME 51, the next major release of one of Linux’s most widely used desktop environments. Following the recent launch of GNOME 50 “Tokyo,” developers are already shifting focus toward the next chapter of the desktop’s evolution, which will carry the codename “A Coruña.”

While it’s still very early in the process, the release schedule is now taking shape, giving Linux users and developers an early look at what to expect over the coming months.

GNOME 51 “A Coruña” Is Now in Development

The new release is named A Coruña, after the Spanish city that will host GUADEC 2026, the annual GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. The event serves as one of the most important gatherings for GNOME contributors, where future desktop plans, technologies, and development priorities are discussed.

As soon as GNOME 50 was finalized, development work for GNOME 51 officially began, continuing GNOME’s well-established six-month release cadence.

Release Schedule Already Published

The GNOME team has outlined the preliminary roadmap for the GNOME 51 cycle.

Current milestone dates include:

• GNOME 51 Alpha: June 27, 2026
• GNOME 51 Beta: August 1, 2026
• GNOME 51 Release Candidate (RC): August 29, 2026
• GNOME 51 Final Release: September 16, 2026

These milestones provide time for:

• Feature integration
• Public testing
• Bug fixing
• Performance optimization
• Final stabilization before release

As always, dates may shift slightly depending on development progress.

Still Too Early for Major Feature Announcements

Because the development cycle has only just started, GNOME developers have not yet revealed a finalized feature list. Most major design discussions and merge requests are still in their early stages.

However, several areas are already attracting attention.

Wayland Improvements Are Likely a Major Focus

One of the biggest transitions in recent GNOME history happened with GNOME 50, which completed the project’s move away from X11 by removing remaining X.Org support from the desktop environment.

Because GNOME is now fully committed to Wayland, many observers expect GNOME 51 to focus heavily on:

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Essex & Herts Air Ambulance has announced a family-friendly obstacle course taking place on Sunday July 12 at Nuclear Wild Forest, in Kelvedon Hatch.

The BBC is seeking children in Essex to take part in their brand-new programme, Will You Be My Friend?.

California lawmakers are moving to exempt most open-source operating systems from the state's upcoming age-verification law after backlash from Linux and privacy advocates who warned that the original rules could force decentralized projects to collect users' ages. The amendment would likely shield major Linux distributions, though SteamOS and other Linux-based platforms tied to proprietary app stores may still face compliance questions. Tom's Hardware reports: Assembly Bill 1856 (AB 1856), currently moving through California's legislature ahead of committee reviews in June, would amend the state's earlier age-assurance law by excluding software distributed under licenses that allow users to "copy, redistribute, and modify the software." The proposed amendment specifically states: "Operating system provider" does not mean a person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software. The amendment follows months of backlash after California passed the original Assembly Bill 1043 (AB 1043), formally known as the Digital Age Assurance Act, in late 2025. The law sought to shift online age verification away from individual websites and apps and down to the operating-system level instead. Under the original law, operating systems would be required to request a user's age or birth date during device setup, then expose an "age bracket signal" to apps and app stores. The law, which defined brackets such as "under 13," "13-15," "16-17," and "18+," immediately raised questions about how such requirements would apply to decentralized, open-source software ecosystems. [...] AB 1856 does not repeal the original Digital Age Assurance Act. Instead, it narrows the definition of who qualifies as an "operating system provider" under the law. Commercial platforms with proprietary app ecosystems could remain subject to California's age-assurance requirements even if most open-source Linux distributions are ultimately exempted. California Assembly Member Buffy Wicks introduced the amendment on February 11, 2026. However, the open-source exemption language appeared in later revisions that began drawing attention across Linux and privacy communities. The latest version is dated May 18, 2026, and as of May 19, 2026, the bill was read a second time and ordered to third reading.

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Essex & Herts Air Ambulance has announced a family-friendly obstacle course taking place on Sunday July 12 at Nuclear Wild Forest, in Kelvedon Hatch.

The BBC is seeking children in Essex to take part in their brand-new programme, Will You Be My Friend?.

Wiping away tears, James Heron told Winchester Coroners' Court that when he woke up at around 7.30am, Phineas was 'on the side where my wife would sleep, face down, not breathing'.