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The council will spend £150k on a "visible security operation" in three Essex areas

Nigel Farage admitted that recent months had been 'difficult', saying: 'For the first time, really, in my political career, I haven't got my family's support. They would rather I packed it up and walked away.'

Kelly Lundie was killed after her red Nissan Juke came off the road and crashed in Woolton, Liverpool on Friday night.

Atefeh Ramezanisadeh and Fatemeh Pasandideh sought asylum in Australia after protesting at a Gold Coast soccer match in March.

The one thing that Constance Marten has plenty of is time. Jailed for 14 years for killing her newborn daughter, her days in HMP Bronzefield are marked by the monotony of prison life.

I didn't go to Oxbridge. I went to the London College of Printing, a concrete mausoleum. Fast-forward 25 years, and I was invited to the Cambridge Union to take part in a debate.

The United Nations has an announcement. "The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is." By 164 votes to one, Member States on Friday endorsed a resolution promoting map projections that more accurately reflect the true size of continents — the culmination of an African-led campaign against the 16th-century Mercator projection, still the most widely used map in the world. The United States cast the sole vote against, dismissing the initiative as part of a "radical ideological project." Six countries — Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine — abstained. The resolution does not ban the Mercator projection or impose a replacement. Instead, it encourages governments, schools, international organizations and technology companies to use the Equal Earth projection and other so-called equal-area maps when relative size matters, and to teach the limitations of any flat map in representing a spherical planet. Behind that seemingly technical debate lies a larger argument about history and power: whether a map designed for European sailors in the 16th century has, over generations, distorted not only geography but perceptions of a whole, vast and complex continent... [With Mercator maps] landmasses appear increasingly enlarged the farther they are from the Equator. Greenland, for instance, can look roughly comparable in size to Africa, even though Africa is about 14 times larger. Northern Europe and North America are similarly magnified, relative to equatorial regions. Despite its original navigational purpose, Mercator remains common in educational, media, digital and official materials. The resolution says those distortions have contributed to the "symbolic minimization" of Africa and perpetuated an unbalanced view of the world... Equal-area maps do not make Africa larger; they remove the exaggeration Mercator gives landmasses closer to the poles. The UN notes that hours before the vote, France's foreign minister announced the country was planning to abandon Mercator for its maps of the world.

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Eminent economist Arthur Laffer said another raid on 'wealth' in the looming Budget could be a 'disaster'.

Karl Kavanagh, 48, owns Hampshire-based KK Construction, which boasts of offering a 'full range' of building services, from groundworks and driveways to home extensions.

Shannon Galligan, 28, hit her ex on the head with a saucepan before stabbing him in the arm, throttling him and bashing him with a pole. He fled through the window to avoid the onslaught.

Liam and Noel Gallagher looked in great spirits as they departed Venice Film Festival on Sunday after the premiere of their Oasis documentary.

Our map shows that 81 years later, more than half of the EU's 27 member states, from Italy to Finland, are now ruled, or influenced, by Right-wing parties and factions.

Police are asking the public to get in touch with any information about his whereabouts

He has now been found

Cardiff City's Krystian Bielik is at the heart of a police investigation after he appeared to grab the throat of a young Portsmouth fan during their 2-0 Championship defeat on the south coast.

English 60s pop star Craig Douglas has passed away aged 85. 

Nicole Kidman has revealed that she's not really what you'd call a 'cool mum'. 

Stevie Nicks' younger brother Christopher has passed away at the age of 72 following a two and a half year private battle with cancer.

Scientists have discovered a surprising link between eating a specific late-night snack which may be fueling nightmares and poor sleep.

The Tories insisted Buenos Aires cannot be part of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - CPTPP - while attempting to 'bully' Britain.