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Essex is set for a change in conditions later this week, with forecasters warning of more unsettled weather.

When Aviva thinks back to the 51 days she spent trapped in Gaza, the spectre of Israeli women returning from sexual assault, bleeding and bruised, crowds her mind.

George Glover, 27, died three days after the 'unprovoked attack' in Leicester at around 6.30am on Monday left him with life-threatening injuries.

This newspaper has learned that Earl Spencer, Harry's uncle, was prepared to offer a house to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Althorp.

Six years after Harry and Meghan stormed out of Britain to become mega-rich Hollywood stars, they have been forced to humiliatingly retreat.

Interest in a mysterious 'lost continent' where believers claim an advanced civilization once existed has been rekindled thanks to claims science has discovered its true location.

In news that will come as music to the ears of women around the world, scientists have uncovered the 'Golden Quartet' of moves that boost the chance of reaching the 'Big O'.

The daughter of M*A*S*H star Sally Kellerman is using Scottish taxpayers cash to fund her legal battle against an Outer Hebrides charity for refusing to allow her dog in a cafe.

If AI delivers a surge in economic output as new tools allow workers to produce more, it could spark increased spending and investment which would push up prices, according to a post.

Police want to speak to a man as part of the investigation

London's ultra-rich are forking out as much as £40,000 a week for rental properties in the capital as steep stamp duty bills and fears of more punitive property taxes put many off buying.

Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive, reports Bloomberg. But after decades of stagnant investment, America's grids "are racing to make the upgrades needed to plug them in," with supplies straining for the necessary equipment. Demand for batteries has skyrocketed as electricity use across the U.S. swells, driven by data centers' booming energy needs and increasing electrification. It's also getting harder to get them connected to power grids... As those upgrades get delayed, storage projects are piling up in interconnection queues from coast to coast. For example, Consolidated Edison Inc., a major utility in New York state, says over the last two years the volume of battery storage projects waiting to be connected has grown by 300%... "The whole process of interconnecting these new power plants got really log-jammed and bottlenecked," said Joseph Rand, an energy policy researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory... Nationwide, some 750 gigawatts of energy storage projects — roughly equivalent to the generating capacity of more than 700 nuclear reactors — are in line to get grid connections, according to the lab's research. Not all of these projects will get built. Many developers already abandoned the queue because of delays. Still, the waiting time is increasing; the median was five years in 2025, up from a year and a half in 2015. The flood of battery projects is expected to continue. Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, projects the U.S. energy storage market will quadruple in the next six years... [Shortages in key equipment] have driven up construction costs and time lines for grid upgrades, leaving utilities struggling to build fast enough. A drought of skilled workers is further slowing them down... In California, PG&E Corp., the state's largest utility, told regulators in January that a key driver of delays was long lead times for specialized equipment. Procuring certain breakers could take nearly four years, according to the utility, which reported a 300% increase in its interconnection workload compared to prior years. In Northern California, for example, holdups to circuit breaker upgrades to a substation in Solano County led to projected delays for two battery projects worth a combined 450 megawatts. Transmission line work in the Bay Area has put another 800 megawatts of energy storage at risk of delay, according to PG&E. Last year New York's Con Ed started requiring developers to help pay for upgrades if their projects will push power demand and strain infrastructure. But that also drew criticism: According to a survey conducted by the trade group New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), the new methodology raised costs by an average of $21 million per project, a 14-fold increase. At least 25 projects have been canceled as a result, according to the group. Battery advocates have appealed to state regulators to get Con Ed to abandon the new policy. Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.

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Meghan, your husband and children are in the line of succession. This is a gig an ageing actor takes to foot his alimony bill, or a youngster grasps in the hope they'll get noticed.

Police are seeking a man after a Walton pub was raided of more than £1,000 worth of alcohol.

Police are seeking a man after a Walton pub was raided of more than £1,000 worth of alcohol.

Iranian cyber terrorists forced the unnamed facility to be completely closed down while staff battled to bring systems back online, in the first and most effective attack of its kind.

Passengers using trains to Stansted Airport are being urged to check their journey after a major issue affected services across much of the country.

Passengers using trains to Stansted Airport are being urged to check their journey after a major issue affected services across much of the country.

A German school whose student body is made up almost entirely of migrants has been dubbed 'the most dangerous in the country'.

Casualties of the A66 crash in Middlesbrough have been named locally as Michael Ray, Theo Rae, Cole Worthy, Jakub Matusiak and Makai Saddington.