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Strictly Come Dancing's head judge Shirley Ballas has found herself at the centre of a 'fix' row as her close relationship with celebrity contestant Dani Dyer has been revealed.

Thomas Jones, named Primary School Of The Year 2026, is an inner-city state primary serving a largely disadvantaged area - Maddy Fletcher finds out how it helps its children to thrive

Cleveland Police said the 31-year-old would face no further action but stressed that detectives were continuing to question a second man in connection with the alleged attack.

It was meant to be a simple procedure, but shortly after surgery to remove a bothersome varicose vein, Jacqueline McWatt's legs became hard, swollen and agonisingly painful.

A fire has broke out in an industrial area on Perry Road in Harlow. Unconfirmed reports of a scrap metal facility being ablaze.

A fire has broke out in an industrial area on Perry Road in Harlow. Unconfirmed reports of a scrap metal facility being ablaze.

Officers were called to Stanley Park on Friday afternoon following reports of a body discovered in a walled garden area.

Designed to take a panoramic view of the vast reaches of space, the Roman Space Telescope 'will help unlock the secrets of the universe.'

Inspectors charged with working out which homes are worth enough to be hit by the new property raid have a checklist of features they can use to push up their taxable value.

They have each appeared in court in August and been locked up for their offending

Dame Meera Syal has revealed she was sexually assaulted in her mid-twenties by an older actor who promised her he could boost her career.

Robert Guanco, 41, died when the huge wooden archway gave way at the Big Church Festival, held on the Wiston Estate near Steyning in West Sussex, on Friday.

Police were called to the Rosenheim train station in Upper Bavaria early on Sunday morning.

Adviser George Cottrell was attacked outside his London home in April, days after Nigel Farage revealed his house had been firebombed.

John Healey was lauded as a politician of principle when, as Defence Secretary, he quit Keir Starmer's Cabinet over a defence spending row with the Treasury in June.

A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale engineered yeast to create cookies that were 3D printed out of plastic waste, reports Futurism: The yeast breaks down the components of plastic compounds and agricultural byproducts like discarded plant stalks into proteins, fats, acids, and flavorings that we can eat. When these are combined together, the mixture is fed into a 3D printer that spits out cookies of any desired shape. The researchers chose to print their cookies as the Greek letter Â, creating what they call "ÂBites" — or micro bites. They haven't actually eaten one of their ÂBites yet, as they wait for university approval... "I think it has a pleasant, appealing aroma," Lahiru Jayakody, a microbiologist at SIU who led the research, told NewScientist. "And it will taste good, too. We've not tasted it, but it smells good — that's for sure — like a real cookie...." The researchers used CRISPR gene-editing technology to reprogram yeast strains to eat polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a widely used form of plastic commonly found in disposable water bottles, food packaging, and clothes, which is rich with carbon. Before the yeast can start feasting, the PET plastics are subjected to a process called oxidative hydrothermal dissolution to break them down into smaller bits that the microbes can digest. The purported advantage of this approach is that it's environmentally friendly, using only heat, water, and oxygen. The yeast feasts on these stripped-down plastic bits, turning them into a slurry of proteins, fats, and acids that're combined with fiber, starch, and sweetener to make them more palatable. One of the yeast strains in particular was able to turn plant biomass into tasty vanilla flavorings... [R]ight now, it's an expensive process, costing around $60 to produce a kilogram of cookies, The Guardian reported. And some experts say it's wishful thinking to believe we can 3D-print, and then eat, ourselves out of these global problems with 3D-printed, delectable treats. "We produce 400 million tons a year of plastic waste. You're not going to turn it all into cookies," Jason Hallett at Imperial College London told New Scientist. "So it's not a solution to the plastic-waste crisis. There's no way you could do this commercially. We're not gonna be eating plastic cookies." Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the article.

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Brooklyn Beckham famously tried to make it as a photographer, with the first of his many career paths bankrolled by mum and dad.

Fire crews from across Essex were called to assist at a cross-border industrial fire in Haverhill last night.

Fire crews from across Essex were called to assist at a cross-border industrial fire in Haverhill last night.

Almost 74,000 applicants were rejected by the army in 2024-25, up 20,000 on the previous year.