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Patrick Earnshaw, head of Highcliffe School, a comprehensive secondary school in Highcliffe-on-Sea, Dorset, addressed online speculation over pupils in a recent newsletter.

Coleen Rooney worked up a sweat in her Alo activewear as she went for a morning run in leafy Cheshire on Monday.

As Fleabag said, hair is everything. Need further proof? The kerfuffle surrounding the Princess of Wales's recent brush with the foils says it all.

Keir Starmer will field questions for the first time since the sacking of the US ambassador over extraordinary emails sent to Jeffrey Epstein.

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from IEEE Spectrum: The world's largest airplane, when it's built, will stretch more than a football field from tip to tail. Sixty percent longer than the biggest existing aircraft, with 12 times as much cargo space as a 747, the behemoth will look like an oil tanker that's sprouted wings — aeronautical engineering at a preposterous scale. Called WindRunner, and expected by 2030, it'll haul just one thing: massive wind-turbine blades. In most parts of the world, onshore wind-turbine blades can be built to a length of 70 meters, max. This size constraint comes not from the limits of blade engineering or physics; it's transportation. Any larger and the blades couldn't be moved over land, since they wouldn't fit through tunnels or overpasses, or be able to accommodate some of the sharper curves of roads and rails. So the WindRunner's developer, Radia of Boulder, Colorado, has staked its business model on the idea that the only way to get extralarge blades to wind farms is to fly them there... Radia's plane will be able to hold two 95-meter blades or one 105-meter blade, and land on makeshift dirt runways adjacent to wind farms. This may sound audacious — an act of hubris undertaken for its own sake. But Radia's supporters argue that WindRunner is simply the right tool for the job — the only way to make onshore wind turbines bigger. Bigger turbines, after all, can generate more energy at a lower cost per megawatt. But the question is: Will supersizing airplanes be worth the trouble...? Having fewer total turbines means a wind farm could space them farther apart, avoiding airflow interference. The turbines would be nearly twice as tall, so they'll reach a higher, gustier part of the atmosphere. And big turbines don't need to spin as quickly, so they would make economic sense in places with average wind speeds around 5 meters per second compared with the roughly 7 m/s needed to sustain smaller units. "The result...is more than a doubling of the acres in the world where wind is viable," says Mark Lundstrom [Radia's founder and CEO]. The executive director at America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory Foundation points out that one day blades could just be 3D-printed on-site — negating the need for the airplane altogether. But 3D printing for turbines is still in its earliest stages.

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Some Labour MPs believe Sir Keir Starmer only has months to turn things around, as he faces questions today over the sacking of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador.

Chip giant accused of breaching conditions of $6.9B Mellanox takeover

China has dealt Nvidia another blow, finding the chipmaker in violation of the country's anti-monopoly Law and escalating a long-running regulatory headache into a full investigation.…

The 54-year-old actor earned top acting honor Best Actor in a Drama Series on a night that The Pitt took home top prize Best Drama Series.

The champion boxer, who was found dead in Manchester yesterday morning aged just 46, told the BBC in 2022: 'I was suicidal. I tried killing myself several times'.

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, epitomised effortless chic at the Cornbury House Horse Trials in Charlbury.

A tourist from the US spent more than two months in the UK, and shared her thoughts on the biggest differences between British and American supermarkets.

If ever there was a year when Strictly bosses would wish to be shy of controversy, it's this one.

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It's the last thing anyone would want to see on a plane. But a woman who boarded a Wizz Air flight to Romania found a cracked window in the row behind her.

I am 60 and have a defined benefit local authority pension. My lump sum would be £15,000 with a £1,144 per month pension, or £64,000 with a £800 pension.

The Welsh actress, 55, went braless beneath a semi-sheer black gown which hugged every inch of her svelte physique.

The Irish actor, 45, was among the nominees at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The 15-year-old revealed last week that he had promised his teachers that he would take his coursework to Los Angeles with him - particularly maths - in order to secure time off.

A 26-hour Met Office yellow wind warning covering most of England and Wales will run until 6pm this evening, and a wind speed of 78mph has been recorded on the Isle of Wight.

"I went from sitting in prison to sitting in the House of Lords, next to the guy running the prisons in the UK"