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In March last year Louis Scudder stood on the roof of his home in Sheerness, Kent, and vowed to destroy it. Now it has been repossessed by the bank and sold against his will

Jacob Rutkowski, who has been described as a 'beautiful soul' by his grieving family died after getting into difficulty in the river Tees in County Durham.

Authorities have announced the arrest of a 32-year-old Virginia woman in connection with a fatal hit-and-run incident that claimed the life of a popular Netflix actress.

Sunglasses, sun cream and umbrellas are out in full force today, as sweltering Brits continue to be gripped by blistering weather as the temperatures continue to soar. 

Nicknamed 'Mighty Mouse' for his powerful scrummaging and compact frame, he won 43 caps for Scotland between 1969 and 1979, captaining his country 19 times.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Over the past three years, companies have invested tens of billions of dollars toward making electric vehicles in the United States, buoyed by tax incentives aimed at helping American businesses compete with China. Now, those companies are facing a strange problem: too much manufacturing capacity, not enough demand. As sales of electric vehicles slow and congressional Republicans take aim at EV tax credits and incentives, the United States is slated to have more battery and EV manufacturing than it needs, according to a report released Wednesday by the Rhodium Group, a research firm. That could leave factories — many of which are already operating or under construction — stranded if car sales continue to slump. "The rug is being pulled out from under these manufacturers," said Hannah Pitt, a director in Rhodium's energy and climate practice... After [America's 2022 climate bill], battery investment in the U.S. skyrocketed. Companies went from investing about $1 billion per quarter in 2022 to $11 billion per quarter in 2024. Most of that battery investment went to red states, including in the South's "Battery Belt," where manufacturers were drawn to inexpensive land and a nonunionized workforce. Now, however, that battery boom is teetering. In the first three months of 2025, companies canceled $6 billion in battery manufacturing — a record. EV sales have slowed... According to the new report, the United States has almost enough battery capacity announced or under development to meet demand all the way to 2030 if EV sales continue to slump. That might sound like a good thing — but if EV sales drop further, it means companies will be left with factories they won't be able to use. At the same time, China has excess battery capacity. The country has enough manufacturing to meet the entire world's demand for batteries — and may be looking to off-load them onto other markets... And if the incentives for using U.S.-made batteries disappear, the nation's manufacturers would be left high and dry.

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Both the best place to live and the worst place to live in Britain are apparently in Essex

Michelle Mone 's £250 million Dubai property project - hailed as the first major development to be sold using Bitcoin - was never actually built.

Which? named it as one of the worst seaside towns in the UK - but it still attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year

Late last month the Ahwatukee restaurant, owned by Patrick Larson, appeared on Fox's newest show ' Gordon Ramsay 's Secret Service'.

For a long time, all of Apple's products were branded with the letter 'i.' Whether it be the iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, or the iPad , it became an iconic symbol for the company.

The horrifying crash (pictured) happened today in the country's southern state of Santa Catarina, in its Praia Grande region - a well-known hot air ballooning location.

An infuriating Reddit brain-teaser forced participants to come face to face with one of life's age old predicaments: finding something in a messy room.

It's not dark matter, writes Space.com. But astronomers have discovered "a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy. "With 10 times the mass of the Milky Way, this filamentary structure accounts for much of the universe's 'missing matter,' the search for which has baffled scientists for decades...." [I]t is "ordinary matter" made up of atoms, composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons (collectively called baryons) which make up stars, planets, moons, and our bodies. For decades, our best models of the universe have suggested that a third of the baryonic matter that should be out there in the cosmos is missing. This discovery of that missing matter suggests our best models of the universe were right all along. It could also reveal more about the "Cosmic Web," the vast structure along which entire galaxies grew and gathered during the earlier epochs of our 13.8 billion-year-old universe.... The newly observed filament isn't just extraordinary in terms of its mass and size; it also has a temperature of a staggering 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (10 million degrees Celsius). That's around 1,800 times hotter than the surface of the sun... The team's research was published on Thursday (June 19) in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Models of the cosmos (including the standard model of cosmology) "have long posited the idea that the missing baryonic matter of the universe is locked up in vast filaments of gas stretching between the densest pockets of space..." the article points out. But now thanks to Suzaku, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, "a team of astronomers has for the first time been able to determine the properties of one of these filaments, which links four galactic clusters in the local universe." Team leader Konstantinos Migkas (of the Netherlands' Leiden Observatory) explained the significance of their finding. "For the first time, our results closely match what we see in our leading model of the cosmos — something that's not happened before." "It seems that the simulations were right all along."

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Wayne Price, 40, was cleared in just 30 minutes after CCTV showed he acted in self-defence - but Worcester BID, who had employed him to tackle crime, refused to give him his job back.

The short clip from the bizarre confrontation sees the woman cop telling the evangelists 'it's so loud'.

King Charles was pictured beaming and waving at crowds as he arrived at Royal Ascot on Saturday, for the Berkshire event's fifth and final day.

The doomed superyacht Bayesian was today finally fully out of the water for the first time since she sank with the loss of seven lives in a torrential storm last August.

The area fell into a state of decay 100 years ago - but has since been revived

Yamal has taken the time to enjoy some downtime - he is currently in Rio de Janeiro with 'idol' Neymar , having previously jetted off on holiday with another woman 12 years his senior.