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A mum says her two young children were left "traumatised" after a cinema showed two horror film trailers before a screening of Lilo & Stitch.

A mum says her two young children were left "traumatised" after a cinema showed two horror film trailers before a screening of Lilo & Stitch.

Two dogs were allowed to terrify a flock of pregnant sheep

The actress, 40, best known for her iconic 'You ain't my mother!' moment, made her first appearance in Monday's episode, after her return was kept under wraps.

STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished

UPDATED  The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.…

Denmark has deployed four uncrewed robotic sailboats (known as "Voyagers") for a three-month trial to boost maritime surveillance amid rising tensions in the Baltic region. The Associated Press reports: Built by Alameda, California-based company Saildrone, the vessels will patrol Danish and NATO waters in the Baltic and North Seas, where maritime tensions and suspected sabotage have escalated sharply since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Two of the Voyagers launched Monday from Koge Marina, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Powered by wind and solar energy, these sea drones can operate autonomously for months at sea. Saildrone says the vessels carry advanced sensor suites -- radar, infrared and optical cameras, sonar and acoustic monitoring. Their launch comes after two others already joined a NATO patrol on June 6. Saildrone founder and CEO Richard Jenkins compared the vessels to a "truck" that carries sensors and uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to give a "full picture of what's above and below the surface" to about 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 kilometers) in the open ocean. He said that maritime threats like damage to undersea cables, illegal fishing and the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs are going undetected simply because "no one's observing it." Saildrone, he said, is "going to places ... where we previously didn't have eyes and ears." The Danish Defense Ministry says the trial is aimed at boosting surveillance capacity in under-monitored waters, especially around critical undersea infrastructure such as fiber-optic cables and power lines.

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Sainsbury's has confirmed the area has now been deep cleaned

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was forced to turn back an hour into its 14-hour flight between Mumbai and London in 2023.

A Melbourne woman died alone in her apartment of a caffeine overdose after waiting over seven hours for an ambulance.

Federal prosecutors have finally shared the chilling notes alleged assassin Vance Boelter carried with him in his shooting spree Saturday morning.

We've all complained about our exes, but doing so in front of your children can be a bad idea - so Fern Britton is doing her best not to, she has revealed.

Cars were set on fire and drivers spun donuts in front of homes and businesses as the streets were left resembling scenes from the apocalyptic cult-classic.

Pheobe Bishop's family have confirmed that the remains found in bushland belong to her.

Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users

Microsoft has created a version of its 365 productivity suite that runs on-premises, as part of a move to satisfy European regulations.…

Ah, bad date handling. We've all seen it. We all know it. So when Lorenzo sent us this C# function, we almost ignored it:

private string GetTimeStamp(DateTime param) { string retDate = param.Year.ToString() + "-"; if (param.Month < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Month.ToString() + "-"; else retDate = retDate + param.Month.ToString() + "-"; if (param.Day < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Day.ToString() + " "; else retDate = retDate + param.Day.ToString() + " "; if (param.Hour < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Hour.ToString() + ":"; else retDate = retDate + param.Hour.ToString() + ":"; if (param.Minute < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Minute.ToString() + ":"; else retDate = retDate + param.Minute.ToString() + ":"; if (param.Second < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Second.ToString() + "."; else retDate = retDate + param.Second.ToString() + "."; if (param.Millisecond < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Millisecond.ToString(); else retDate = retDate + param.Millisecond.ToString(); return retDate; }

Most of this function isn't terribly exciting. We've seen this kind of bad code before, but even when we see a repeat like this, there are still special treats in it. Look at the section for handling milliseconds: if the number is less than 10, they pad it with a leading zero. Just the one, though. One leading zero should be enough for everybody.

But that's not the thing that makes this code special. You see, there's another function worth looking at:

private string FileTimeStamp(DateTime param) { string retDate = param.Year.ToString() + "-"; if (param.Month < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Month.ToString() + "-"; else retDate = retDate + param.Month.ToString() + "-"; if (param.Day < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Day.ToString() + " "; else retDate = retDate + param.Day.ToString() + " "; if (param.Hour < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Hour.ToString() + ":"; else retDate = retDate + param.Hour.ToString() + ":"; if (param.Minute < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Minute.ToString() + ":"; else retDate = retDate + param.Minute.ToString() + ":"; if (param.Second < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Second.ToString() + "."; else retDate = retDate + param.Second.ToString() + "."; if (param.Millisecond < 10) retDate = retDate + "0" + param.Millisecond.ToString(); else retDate = retDate + param.Millisecond.ToString(); return retDate; }

Not only did they fail to learn the built-in functions for formatting dates, they forgot about the functions they wrote for formatting dates, and just wrote (or realistically, copy/pasted?) the same function twice.

At least both versions have the same bug with milliseconds. I don't know if I could handle it if they were inconsistent about that.

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Investigators were able to buy a pile of contraband in the Health Secretary's Ilford North stronghold, with hundreds of products marked 'disposable' openly displayed.

Whether she's attending a grand state event or on a casual outing, the Princess of Wales consistently delivers an impeccable aesthetic.

The US President said a trade deal is 'done' as he waved and briefly dropped a document which he said he had just signed, with Sir Keir Starmer quick to pick up the papers up for Donald Trump.

On Monday it was claimed that a bullying probe had been launched into the crisis-hit show, with much of the upset centred around its bullish editor Richard Frediani.

Baroness Casey last night hit out at 'do-gooders' who tried to bury the facts of such cases, yet only ended up giving racists 'more ammunition'.