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It follows months of prolonged dry weather, warm temperatures and three heatwaves

A hosepipe ban has been issued across Essex and the East of England by Anglian Water amid heatwave.

Paul Gambaccini has revealed he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease as he vowed to continue to broadcast his radio shows for as long as he can.

The charges were introduced in November 2021 to bridge a budget gap in the council's finances

Beware the golden screwdriver

Count Binface will be standing in the upcoming Clacton by-election, but among abolishing VAR and nationalising Adele, what are his other policies?

Campaigners are stepping up calls for the closure of Wethersfield Asylum Centre, saying the former RAF base is placing pressure on nearby towns.

Count Binface will be standing in the upcoming Clacton by-election, but among abolishing VAR and nationalising Adele, what are his other policies?

The best and worst GP practices across mid Essex have been revealed in new patient satisfaction data.

Fresh warnings about the dangers of open water have been shared by a councillor after a 13-year-old girl was seriously injured in the River Stour at Dedham.

Campaigners are stepping up calls for the closure of Wethersfield Asylum Centre, saying the former RAF base is placing pressure on nearby towns.

Braintree needs lower taxes on local business, more affordable housing and stronger support for farmers, according to MP James Cleverly.

Campaigners have put up various signs across the village in protest against the 'ridiculous' proposals

Rick Springfield continues to age like fine wine in his seventies.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment -- but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely controlled the robots' movements in a new example of human-robot teamups. The teleoperated humanoid robots completed two minimally invasive surgeries by removing gallbladders from live pigs during a preclinical trial that was published in the journal Nature. If this approach eventually proves clinically ready for human patients, surgeons could use such humanoid robots to remotely perform robotic-assisted surgical care in smaller hospitals and clinics that lack the resources to install specialized but expensive surgical robots. The experiment used a Unitree G1 humanoid robot made by leading Chinese robotics company Unitree. The cheapest baseline G1 model with effectively non-functional hands has a starting price of $13,500 and shipping costs ranging between $300 and $1,200, whereas adding crucial upgrades such as dexterous robotic hands can easily push the cost beyond $67,000. But such humanoid robots made in China are still significantly cheaper than specialized surgical robots like Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Surgical System, which can cost anywhere between half a million dollars and several million dollars. The specialized surgical robots can also weigh about 1,800 pounds and take up considerably more space in operating rooms. By comparison, the Unitree humanoid robots, standing at 5 feet tall and weighing just 60 pounds, may be more suitable for smaller clinical settings in remote areas.

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Emma Kate Willman first made her name online by posting hair tutorials and showing her followers how she styles her braids and plaits. Yet during the World Cup, her Instagram blew up a little more than usual.

The fire started on June 30 around 7pm at a home in Citrus Heights, according to the local police department.

More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools

Mackenzie Elizabeth Michalski, 31, a nurse from Portland, Oregon , went missing while on holiday in Hungary in November 2024. An Irishman she went home from a nightclub with was jailed.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Resplendent in an impeccably tailored, double-breasted suit, Sir David has looked every inch the Establishment figure during this year's Wimbledon.