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Lawyers winding up the estate of the former First Minister have confirmed moves to apply for a 'trustee in sequestration', a legal process equivalent to declaring the estate bankrupt.

On October 7, listeners tuned in to BBC Scotland's flagship morning phone-in slot expecting to hear straight-talking host Kaye Adams ready to discuss the big talking points of the day.

Meek Mill's Halloween took an unexpected turn early Saturday morning when the rapper was briefly detained by New York City police officers outside a Manhattan nightclub.

Nottingham Forest star Neco Williams, formerly of United's fierce rivals Liverpool, took to X to taunt Frank Illett, known as The United Strand, after the Red Devils were held to a 2-2 draw.

In the wake of her intimate snaps with Nikita, sources close to Amber reacted to the images, telling the Daily Mail that any suggestion she has fallen victim to the show's 'curse' is nonsense.

Woke BBC bosses reportedly wanted to sack a Top Gear host after deeming the original line-up as 'too white'. 

Celebrity Traitors star Kate Garraway has revealed that she began exploring an ADHD diagnosis after wrapping up filming for the hit BBC show.

Hamas used the last resting place of hundreds of British soldiers buried at the British War Cemetery in Daraj Tuffah, Gaza City and Deir El Belah, also in Gaza, to store weapons.

The Prince and Princess of Wales made it clear that a clean break from Andrew was the only way the Royal Family can move forward, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Having wriggled on the hook for more than a year over her definition of a 'working person', after promising not to raise taxes for such people, finally, she has an answer.

Evangelical Christian' organisation World Vision is under fire after its British arm was hit with allegations of sexism and racism nearly a decade after Meghan, 44, served as its 'global ambassador'.

My feeling is that we are in the early stages of a revival of equity culture, driven in part by the market boom but equally by the apps that make it easy to invest.

"A nearby galaxy once thought to be dominated by dark matter seems to have a surprise supermassive black hole at its centre," reports New Scientist. Yet scientists "are convinced dark matter is out there," writes Space.com. "The quest to detect it arguably remains both one of the most frustrating and most exhilarating challenges in modern physics." And now they report that the century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — "just got a modern clue." Scientists say they may be one step closer to confirming the existence of this elusive material, thanks to new simulations suggesting that a faint glow at the center of the Milky Way could be dark matter's long-sought signature. "It's very hard to actually prove, but it does seem likely," Moorits Muru of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam in Germany, who led the new study, told Space.com... The findings, show that dark matter near the Milky Way's center might not form a perfect sphere as scientists long thought. Instead, it appears flattened, almost egg-shaped, and that shape closely mirrors the pattern of mysterious gamma rays observed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope... Using powerful supercomputers, [the researchers] recreated how the Milky Way formed, including billions of years of violent collisions and mergers with smaller galaxies. Those violent events, the researchers found, left deep "fingerprints" on the way dark matter is distributed in the galactic core.... matching the pattern of gamma-ray emission Fermi has observed, the new study reports... If the excess truly arises from dark matter collisions, it would mark the first indirect evidence that weakly interacting massive particles [WIMPs], a leading dark matter candidate, really exist... "We have run dozens of direct detection experiments around the globe hunting for WIMPS," notes Phys.org, in an article titled "The Empty Search for Dark Matter." We have run dozens of direct detection experiments around the globe hunting for WIMPS — dark matter particles in this particular mass range. And they're not all the same kind of experiments. There are also the scintillators, which use a giant vat of liquefied noble gas, like several tons of xenon. They wait for a dark matter particle to strike the xenon and cause it to scintillate, which is a fancy science word for "sparkle." We see the sparkle; we detect dark matter... They're just one example of a broader class of dark matter candidates, with delightful names like Q-balls, WIMPzillas, and sterile neutrinos. We've tuned our different experiments to capture different mass ranges or interaction strengths to cover as much of that wide dark matter spectrum as possible. We've even tried to manufacture various kinds of dark matter in our particle collider experiments. And we've found nothing.

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Juliana Peralta and Sewell Setzer III took their own lives months apart on opposite sides of the country. Before they died both of them wrote the same thing in their journals over and over.

Lollipop lady Sally, who appeared on the BBC One programme earlier this month, decided to apply to be a contestant on the show after battling lung cancer, and took home £110,000.

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Password manager 1Password's 2025 Annual Report: The Access-Trust Gap exposes how everyday employees are becoming accidental hackers in the AI era. The company's data shows that 73% of workers are encouraged to use AI tools, yet more than a third admit they do not always follow corporate policies. Many employees are feeding sensitive information into large language models or using unapproved AI apps to get work done, creating what 1Password calls "Shadow AI." At the same time, traditional defenses like single sign-on (SSO) and mobile device management (MDM) are failing to keep pace, leaving gaps in visibility and control. The report warns that corporate security is being undermined from within. More than half of employees have installed software without IT approval, two-thirds still use weak passwords, and 38% have accessed accounts at previous employers. Despite rising enthusiasm for passkeys and passwordless authentication, 1Password says most organizations still depend on outdated systems that were never built for cloud-native, AI-driven work. The result is a growing "Access-Trust Gap" that could allow AI chaos and employee shortcuts to dismantle enterprise security from the inside.

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Strictly Come Dancing's Tess Daly stepped down from her presenting role to 'spend more time with family' amid her marriage woes to husband Vernon Kay .

Locals on a windswept Scottish island claim they are under siege from thousands of anti-social tourists every year with the situation so stark that visitors who are caught short are now defecating.

Thomas Waller, 18, who was newly-qualified to work with children, preyed on his young victims in the toilets.

Three people have been arrested after women's rights groups and trans rights activists clashed 199 days after the Supreme Court's transgender ruling.