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Will Rachel Reeves receive a Civil Penalty Notice fine of up to £30,000 as other landlords without a selective licence might? I committed the same mistake - and it cost me thousands of pounds.

The strongman, better known as Kadu Santos, was an 11-times bodybuilding champion and two-times overall champion of a prestigious regional Muscle Contest competition.

He was the jeweller who appeared on ITV's This Morning, fitting a £500,000 string of sparklers around Holly Willoughby's neck. But investors are not the only ones to have suffered from links with the tycoon.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer -- the Israeli government -- had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the "winking mechanism." The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel's concerns that data it moves into the global corporations' cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities. Like other big tech companies, Google and Amazon's cloud businesses routinely comply with requests from police, prosecutors and security services to hand over customer data to assist investigations. This process is often cloaked in secrecy. The companies are frequently gagged from alerting the affected customer their information has been turned over. This is either because the law enforcement agency has the power to demand this or a court has ordered them to stay silent. For Israel, losing control of its data to authorities overseas was a significant concern. So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators. To clinch the lucrative contract, Google and Amazon agreed to the so-called winking mechanism, according to leaked documents seen by the Guardian, as part of a joint investigation with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call. Based on the documents and descriptions of the contract by Israeli officials, the investigation reveals how the companies bowed to a series of stringent and unorthodox "controls" contained within the 2021 deal, known as Project Nimbus. Both Google and Amazon's cloud businesses have denied evading any legal obligations.

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Pixie Lott has welcomed her second child with her partner Oliver Cheshire. 

Sydney Sweeney fans are turning on her after she opened up about feeling judged in Hollywood while wearing a revealing sheer gown onstage.

Pitt's legal team said that Jolie's legal logic was not sound as to why she is refusing to turn over the communications.

Gazans coming to study in Britain will now be allowed to bring their families with them following a shift in government policy.

This week he was finally outed as a Traitor and, as he left the game, referred to his co-stars as 'idiots'.

Ahead of the launch on Tuesday afternoon, Meghan shared a clip of her working at her laptop and perched on her desk was a blue notebook with her royal cypher embossed on the cover.

After a conversation about Halloween on his podcast, a recently unearthed photo showed Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce winning a costume contest.

Nine Canary palms were planted in Weymouth, Dorset, in 2012 as an Olympic legacy for the sailing events held there.

Universal Music Group has settled its copyright lawsuit with AI music startup Udio and struck a licensing deal to launch a new AI-powered music platform next year. The Verge reports: The deal includes some form of compensation and "will provide further revenue opportunities for UMG artists and songwriters," Universal says. Udio, the company behind "BBL Drizzy," will launch the platform as a subscription service next year. Universal, alongside other industry giants Sony and Warner, sued Udio and another startup Suno for "en masse" copyright infringement last year. Universal -- whose roster includes some of the world's biggest performers like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and Ariana Grande -- says the new tool will "transform the user engagement experience" and let creators customize, stream, and share music. There's no indication of how much it will cost yet. Udio's existing music maker, which lets you create new songs with a few words, will remain available during the transition, though content will be held "within a walled garden" and security measures like fingerprinting will be added.

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The Cod Fellas catering truck set up shop on Tuesday in front of the monument (pictured) in Portsmouth, Hampshire, commemorating those who died in the 1982 conflict.

She's been a prominent figure on British television since she was in her early twenties, but some three decades later, 53-year-old Claudia Winkleman has barely aged.

Campaign group Republic says it has instructed lawyers to investigate the Duke of York and, if appropriate, press ahead with legal proceedings.

Amber Davies cut a glamorous figure in a sparkly silver gown as she arrived at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on Thursday.

In April 2022, Rachel Reeves, then Labour shadow chancellor, called on her opposite number Rishi Sunak to resign.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is facing legal action over its decision to ban those born male from competing in the women's game, according to a report.

OpenAI is reportedly preparing for a massive IPO that could value the company at up to $1 trillion. It follows a recent corporate restructuring that loosened its dependence on Microsoft and aligned its nonprofit foundation with financial success. Reuters reports: OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some of the people said. In preliminary discussions, the company has looked at raising $60 billion at the low end and likely more, the people said. They cautioned that talks are early and plans -- including the figures and timing - could change depending on business growth and market conditions. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told some associates the company is aiming for a 2027 listing, the people said. But some advisers predict it could come even sooner, around late 2026. [...] An IPO would open the door to more efficient capital raising and enable larger acquisitions using public stock, helping to finance CEO Sam Altman's plans to pour trillions of dollars into AI infrastructure, according to people familiar with the company's thinking. With an annualized revenue run rate expected to reach about $20 billion by year-end, losses are also mounting inside the $500 billion company, the people said. During a livestream on Tuesday, Altman addressed the possibility of going public. "I think it's fair to say it is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have," he said.

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