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The council leader said he would not hesitate to pull out of the plans for 10,000 new homes if it didn't meet the needs of local people

My uncle Richard had built up a healthy savings pot and owned his house mortgage-free when he was struck by a stroke 30 years ago.

It's the big question being asked across the country - 'Will she, won't she cut the amount of tax-free cash that we can take from our pension pots?'

Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. But what does UEFI look like from an Arm perspective?…

Charlie Kirk 's suspected assassin Tyler Robinson donned a suicide vest as he made his first court appearance charged with the capital murder of the conservative star.

Robert Andrews Jr adopted the persona of an 'average guy' with a partner and children while running a major cocaine empire.

At least 900 tourists were left stranded near Machu Picchu after protestors blocked the train tracks that lead to and from the ancient Inca city.

"Phys.org is reporting on a study published in Nature Physics involving ICN2 at the UAB campus, Xi'an Jiaotong University (Xi'an) and Stony Brook University (New York), showing for the first time that ordinary ice is a flexoelectric material -- meaning it can generate electricity when subjected to mechanical deformation," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. From the report: "We discovered that ice generates electric charge in response to mechanical stress at all temperatures. In addition, we identified a thin 'ferroelectric' layer at the surface at temperatures below -113C (160K)," explains Dr. Xin Wen, a member of the ICN2 Oxide Nanophysics Group and one of the study's lead researchers. "This means that the ice surface can develop a natural electric polarization, which can be reversed when an external electric field is applied -- similar to how the poles of a magnet can be flipped. The surface ferroelectricity is a cool discovery in its own right, as it means that ice may have not just one way to generate electricity, but two: ferroelectricity at very low temperatures, and flexoelectricity at higher temperatures all the way to 0 C." This property places ice on a par with electroceramic materials such as titanium dioxide, which are currently used in advanced technologies like sensors and capacitors.

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Each seizure also triggers a new 12-month warning period, which helps officers keep repeat offenders off the roads.

Network rail engineers are on route to the location

Robert Redford, who has died aged 89, was treated with suspicion by so many in Hollywood, but it ignores the opposite side of his personality, with the white-hot passions and griefs that drove him.

She has shared concerns about the rising prices of Mounjaro

Wild claims that an alien-like species has emerged from a tiny meteorite have taken the internet by storm.

She was a 'down-to-earth Yorkshire woman who knew how to serve and be part of the Royal Family, without ever losing that care for people who were worse off and in difficulties'.

Today's representative line is almost too short to be a full line. But I haven't got a category for representative characters, so we'll roll with it. First, though, we need the setup.

Brody inherited a massive project for a government organization. It was the kind of code base that had thousands of lines per file, and frequently thousands of lines per function. Almost none of those lines were comments. Almost.

In the middle of one of the shorter functions (closer to 500 lines), Brody found this:

// }

This was the only comment in the entire file. And it's a beautiful one, because it tells us so much. Specifically, it tells us the developer responsible messed up the brace count (because clearly a long function has loads of braces in it), and discovered their code didn't compile. So they went around commenting out extra braces until they found the offender. Code compiled, and voila- on to the next bug, leaving the comment behind.

Now, I don't know for certain that's why a single closing brace is commented out. But also, I know for certain that's what happened, because I've seen developers do exactly that.

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Three ambulance vehicles were sent to the scene

The first Tory MP has defected to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Danny Kruger is a thoughtful, cerebral MP and is a huge loss. Is the Conservative Party facing a big crisis?

The Eritrean man took his case to the High Court, claiming he would be 'destitute' if the Home Office sends him back to France.

Six months after the Grenfell Tower travesty, Meghan Markle began paying 'secret visits' to a community kitchen run by survivors.

It has been prioritised over other car parks in the area