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The Love Island winner, 29, showcased her physique in a busty black top and bejewelled matching pencil skirt as she joined the West End star, 32.

In Britain today, millions of people who could work are instead trapped on benefits. That's not compassion - it's failure.

A woman who has dedicated almost 15 years of her life hunting for what she believes are undiscovered creatures in a vast US lake has turned her attention to Loch Ness.

Nicole Kidman made a powerful return to the spotlight this week as she used her first public appearance since filing for divorce to champion an important cause.

It was recently branded the 'asylum capital' of the UK after figures showed it housed the highest proportion of asylum seekers of any local authority - 65 per 10,000 residents, totalling 4,023.

EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Robinson paid foreign Muslim sweatshop workers to make 'patriotic' T-shirts for anti-Muslim Unite The Kingdom march, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The fallouts between the panellists of Loose Women - both on and off-screen - can be vicious. As for managing their ever-changing cliques? Nigh-on impossible.

Kate Price tells her harrowing tale of abuse at the hands of her father and how she learned to heal with the help of psychiatrist Dr Bessel van der Kolk.

ScienceAlert writes that some of the tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil "can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found." A team of scientists from the University of Plymouth in the UK placed radishes into a hydroponic (water-based) system containing polystyrene nanoparticles. After five days, almost 5% of the nanoplastics had made their way into the radish roots. A quarter of those were in the edible, fleshy roots, while a tenth had traveled up to the higher leafy shoots, despite anatomical features within the plants that typically screen harmful material from the soil. "Plants have a layer within their roots called the Casparian strip, which should act as a form of filter against particles, many of which can be harmful," says physiologist Nathaniel Clark. "This is the first time a study has demonstrated nanoplastic particles could get beyond that barrier, with the potential for them to accumulate within plants and be passed on to anything that consumes them...." There are some limitations to the study, as it didn't use a real-world farming setup. The concentration of plastics in the liquid solution is higher than estimated for soil, and only one type of plastic and one kind of vegetable were tested. Nevertheless, the basic principle stands: the smallest plastic nanoparticles can apparently sneak past protective barriers in plants, and from there into the food we eat... "There is no reason to believe this is unique to this vegetable, with the clear possibility that nanoplastics are being absorbed into various types of produce being grown all over the world," says Clark. The research has been published in Environmental Research.

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The four-star Britannia Hotel, which is housing hundreds of asylum seekers, has been the site of large scale anti-migrant protests in recent months.

The research from the Women in Work summit and LinkedIn showed nine in ten male bosses are replaced by other men, compared to a 50/50 shift when a female leader steps down.

Jensen Westhead, 20, (pictured) had ingested multiple bags of the class A drug at a hotel in Manchester in December last year before flying to Dubai.

Ike Turner Jr., the son of legendary performers Tina Turner and Ike Turner, has died at the age of 67 at a Los Angeles hospital on Saturday.

The Duchess of Sussex shared an Instagram clip during a visit to France for Paris Fashion Week - with critics accusing her of being 'bewilderingly tasteless'.

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg has reportedly told officials from her native Sweden that she is being held in a bug-infested cell with little food or water and is being made to hold Israeli flags

Georgia Taylor, from Gwaelod-g-Garth in Wales, passed away in the early hours of August 21 following a week-long trip to the Greek Island Zante.

A migrant hotel has become the centre of rising tensions in the market town of Banbury after a woman 'was raped' in a nearby park.

"It's not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast," writes Cory Doctorow. Sunday he shared an excerpt from his upcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He succinctly explains "this moment we're living through, this Great Enshittening" using Amazon as an example. Platforms amass users, but then abuse them to make things better for their business customers. And then they abuse those business customers too, abusing everybody while claiming all the value for themselves. "And become a giant pile of shit." So first Amazon subsidized prices and shipping, then locked in customers with Prime shipping subscriptions (while adding the chains of DRM to its ebooks and audiobooks)... These tactics — Prime, DRM and predatory pricing — make it very hard not to shop at Amazon. With users locked in, to proceed with the enshittification playbook, Amazon needed to get its business customers locked in, too... [M]erchants' dependence on those customers allows Amazon to extract higher discounts from those merchants, and that brings in more users, which makes the platform even more indispensable for merchants, allowing the company to require even deeper discounts... [Amazon] uses its overview of merchants' sales, as well as its ability to observe the return addresses on direct shipments from merchants' contracting factories, to cream off its merchants' bestselling items and clone them, relegating the original seller to page umpty-million of its search results. Amazon also crushes its merchants under a mountain of junk fees pitched as optional but effectively mandatory. Take Prime: a merchant has to give up a huge share of each sale to be included in Prime, and merchants that don't use Prime are pushed so far down in the search results, they might as well cease to exist. Same with Fulfilment by Amazon, a "service" in which a merchant sends its items to an Amazon warehouse to be packed and delivered with Amazon's own inventory. This is far more expensive than comparable (or superior) shipping services from rival logistics companies, and a merchant that ships through one of those rivals is, again, relegated even farther down the search rankings. All told, Amazon makes so much money charging merchants to deliver the wares they sell through the platform that its own shipping is fully subsidised. In other words, Amazon gouges its merchants so much that it pays nothing to ship its own goods, which compete directly with those merchants' goods.... Add all the junk fees together and an Amazon seller is being screwed out of 45-51 cents on every dollar it earns there. Even if it wanted to absorb the "Amazon tax" on your behalf, it couldn't. Merchants just don't make 51% margins. So merchants must jack up prices, which they do. A lot... [W]hen merchants raise their prices on Amazon, they are required to raise their prices everywhere else, even on their own direct-sales stores. This arrangement is called most-favoured-nation status, and it's key to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon... If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you're paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop — even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store. It gets worse. On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen and you'll pay an average of 25% more than you would for your best match — which, on average, is located 17 places down in an Amazon search result. Doctorow knows what we need to do: Ban predatory pricing — "selling goods below cost to keep competitors out of the market (and then jacking them up again)." Impose structural separation, "so it can either be a platform, or compete with the sellers that rely on it as a platform." Curb junk fees, "which suck 45-51 cents on every dollar merchants take in." End its most favoured nation deal, which forces merchants "to raise their prices everywhere else, too. Unionise drivers and warehouse workers. Treat rigged search results as the fraud they are. These are policy solutions. (Because "You can't shop your way out of a monopoly," Doctorow warns.) And otherwise, as Doctorow says earlier, "Once a company is too big to fail, it becomes too big to jail, and then too big to care." In the mean time, Doctorow also makes up a new word — "the enshitternet" — calling it "a source of pain, precarity and immiseration for the people we love. "The indignities of harassment, scams, disinformation, surveillance, wage theft, extraction and rent-seeking have always been with us, but they were a minor sideshow on the old, good internet and they are the everything and all of the enshitternet." Thanks to long-time Slashdot readers mspohr and fjo3 for sharing the article.

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The former Manchester United defender made the comments around 24 hours after worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation were attacked by Syrian-born terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie.

Tyson Fury 's daughter, Venezuela, is not waiting around. This week, at her 16th birthday party, she said yes to give her hand in marriage to young boxer Noah Price.