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A car fire has closed one lane of the A12 near Brentwood.

Matthew Wright (pictured), 60, appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Friday alongside three other former employees to face the criminal charge for the first time.

Dame Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy continued their show of friendship at a charity event on Friday, the morning after their red carpet reunion raised eyebrows.

Gogglebox star Calum has quit the show and is emigrating to Australia with his partner. 

Olivia Attwood and Sophie Habboo led the British stars who arrived in New York for Fashion Week as they attended the Alice and Olivia show on Friday.

The party's regional leaders have been warned that the Overnight Visitor Levy risks making city breaks in England far more expensive than those overseas.

The senior Reform MP said that councils run by her party will become flagships for undoing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 'nonsense'.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury's fans are convinced they secretly got married while on holiday in Turkey.

The furious Putin regime has pledged to return the Cosmonaut suit (pictured) to Russia, it is understood.

Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems and recent incidents in which models escaped human control. OpenAI has already paused development once this year for security work and is now pushing for mandatory U.S. AI safety requirements. Anthropic has also signaled interest in coordinating on the pace of new releases. Here are some of the details Bloomberg reported, as summarized by Reuters: - Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the ChatGPT maker could pace development alongside other AI labs, but some may not agree, the report added. - Safety warnings from AI researchers this week, along with several recent incidents where AI models from developers including OpenAI escaped human control, have prompted alarm and calls for tighter safety regulations. - Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, publicly accused the companies earlier this week of racing toward AI advancements without acting responsibly. - An Anthropic spokesperson said on Thursday said that the company is interested in working with the AI industry on the pace of releasing new AI tools. - OpenAI said in July that AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will "need to pace the rate of AI advancement" at some point in the future. - In August, OpenAI paused much of its model development for two weeks to bolster its defenses after its AI agents escaped containment and hacked open-source platform Hugging Face. - OpenAI said on Wednesday that it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements in the United States, citing concerns that advanced AI systems could accelerate its own development.

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The scorching summer is set to produce some of the strongest champagnes in history - and a 'vintage year' for English sparkling wine makers.

Berkeley Group said 'far more tax revenue is being lost through depressed activity than is being gained through SDLT on new build homes as set out by HMRC's own assessment'.

The hidden story of what happened after the Roman Empire fell has finally been uncovered after scientists uncovered ancient remains dating back more than 1,400 years.

Families of British 9/11 victims have marked the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks. Crowds gathered in London near a memorial sculpture of the Twin Towers ruins.

A motion submitted for the Greens' autumn conference next month makes explosive allegations about the treatment of women in the party.

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Williams F1 team is taking a trip down memory lane in Madrid this weekend with a historic livery that raised unexpected questions on the 9/11 anniversary.

A new bid to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales was rejected by MPs in the House of Commons today - but how did your MP vote.

Vice President JD Vance and all the living former presidents sat feet away as she spoke at the memorial service.

Two men have been arrested in Basildon in connection with knife offences following separate incidents within the past 24 hours.