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Controversial actor Laurence Fox, who lives in Essex, has announced he will be standing against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election.

Controversial actor Laurence Fox, who lives in Essex, has announced he will be standing against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election.

A busy estate agent, Louise was running on empty and used food and wine to fill the gap. But by January 2025 she tipped the scales at 16 stone. Yet just 18 months later, she is a proud size 10-12.

Felicity Kendal has said she is determined to live life to the full after seeing a number of her friends and co-stars die in recent years.  

'We're a small, friendly club that always welcomes newcomers.' Ah yes, that well-worn line parroted by many of the groups in and around my well-to-do village in rural West Sussex.

Nigel Farage said he will quit as an MP to fight a 'people versus the establishment' by-election in protest at scrutiny over unregistered donations of cash and support.

Pat Sharp and her husband Nigel bought the empty Royal Bank of Scotland building for £550,000 eight years ago in Westgate, North Berwick, Scotland.

Anthony Williams, 33, has been charged with actual bodily harm for an incident that left a man with facial injuries more than a month before numerous passengers were injured on the LNER service.

TfL has said more details regarding costs will be published once the project is complete

New Zealand startup Zenno Astronautics has completed the first orbital test of its "Supertorquer," a shoebox-sized superconducting magnet system that uses solar power and Earth's magnetic field to help control a satellite without fuel. The company says the technology could eventually support fuel-free satellite maneuvers, docking, deep-space trajectory changes, and even magnetic radiation shielding for astronauts. Space Magazine reports: The tests began shortly after Mira's launch in November last year aboard the SpaceX Transporter 12 mission and saw the shoebox-size device perform with flying colors, Zenno Astronautics CEO and founder Max Arshavsky, told Space.com. "It's a technology that allows a spacecraft to not tumble violently in space and point in the right direction," Arshavsky said. "The unit has multiple super-conducting magnets that are positioned in different axes. When we power up the magnets, they generate a magnetic field, which interacts with Earth's magnetic field, and because we can control the magnetic field on the satellite, we can control the way in which it turns with respect to Earth." Superconducting magnets are made of coils of superconducting wire that have zero electrical resistance and can therefore conduct much larger currents than normal wires. That larger current translates into a greater magnetic force. There is, however, a catch: Superconducting materials need to be cooled to extremely low temperatures to gain their wonder properties. [...] The unit housing the superconducting magnets is wrapped in layers of insulation and fitted with a heat pump that removes all the excess heat from the system. Every time the satellite needs a push, the superconducting coils power up, drawing energy from a battery charged by the satellite's solar panels. "It's converting solar energy straight into useful work," Arshavsky said. "Energy is the one thing that is abundant in space, and you can use it to energize the magnet to create a magnetic acceleration device. It gives you acceleration without fuel." In the future, Zenno Astronautics plans to launch larger systems that could enable spacecraft to dock in space or conduct close proximity operations using just the power of their solar-powered superconducting magnets. Arshavsky envisions powerful magnets that could, in the future, propel spacecraft on missions to the moon and Mars using only solar power.

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FORMER Clacton MP and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has given his first media interview since his shock resignation.

Marsh Tit birds are slowly disappearing from Essex due to fragmented woodland, as populations drop nearly 50 per cent.

Marsh Tit birds are slowly disappearing from Essex due to fragmented woodland, as populations drop nearly 50 per cent.

FORMER Clacton MP and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has given his first media interview since his shock resignation.

Ofcom: Telco encouraged staff to drop calls and put customers on hold for no reason when they wanted to cancel

Being similar in size to raindrops and the way they reflect light, flying ants are picked up on radars with the Met Office saying they can be 'initially mistaken for showers'.

Drivers have been warned of increased traffic in the area and households could have low water pressure

Research has shown a growing number of parents are happy to take their children out of school for a holiday. But is it worth days of education inevitably lost?

The party at the £500-a-night honeymooners' resort came just hours before they were due to operate on a flight from Barbados to London.

The Three Lions' epic last-16 victory over Mexico was delayed by an hour due to thunderstorms in Mexico City.