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Young cooks have been learning to make quiche and cupcakes from scratch as part of Braintree Salvation Army's summer cooking programme.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old teenager was stabbed inside Brent Council's building close to Wembley Stadium in north-west London.

Fire crews have warned that the risk of wildfires remains despite rainfall, after grassland in Rickling was destroyed by an out of control bonfire.

The long bank holiday weekend could be a washout in Essex with the potential of thunderstorms, according to weather experts.

The Witham Mayor has praised children who are engaging with nature, ahead of the town's first 'Sunflower Growing Competition'.

Australian Kelly O’Brien, 50, of Hertfordshire, has been putting on The Dolly show for the last 20 years and regularly tours the UK, US, and her home country.

American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton died aged 80 following a “brief battle with cancer” on Tuesday.

Sir James Cleverly said Wethersfield’s former RAF base was “always the wrong site” for asylum accommodation after

The long bank holiday weekend could be a washout in Essex with the potential of thunderstorms, according to weather experts.

Australian Kelly O’Brien, 50, of Hertfordshire, has been putting on The Dolly show for the last 20 years and regularly tours the UK, US, and her home country.

American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton died aged 80 following a “brief battle with cancer” on Tuesday.

Sir James Cleverly said Wethersfield’s former RAF base was “always the wrong site” for asylum accommodation after

The draft local plan details where 18,334 homes should be built across more than 50 sites

Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, which is due at the end of September. Phoronix reports: Firefox Nightly has JPEG-XL support enabled by default right now to help in vetting this support while Mozilla believes the support is in good enough shape for a stable debut with Firefox 157. This follows Chrome shipping JPEG-XL and Google Research developing jxl-rs as a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that is both performant and secure. In today's Mozilla Hacks blog post they elaborate on JPEG-XL vs. AVIF image formats: "JPEG XL: Excels at lossless imagery, progressive rendering, and further compressing JPEGs without quality loss. AVIF: Excels at web-quality photographic images, and images that have a mix of sharp edges and flat surfaces. ... Although AVIF tends to produce smaller files at web-quality than JPEG XL, AVIF only has basic progressive rendering support. So, for very large images, it may be worth taking the filesize hit with JPEG XL."

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Lindsay Clancy, 36, stands accused of an almost unimaginable crime - murdering her three children, aged five, three and eight months, before trying to take her own life.

Chantelle Van Vilet, 48, requested flexible working hours due to the 'severity' of her condition which caused 'confusion' and 'brain fog'.

Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel, 46, was handcuffed at around 6am outside the house in Robroyston, on the northern outskirts of Glasgow.

The King and Queen are to carry out an overseas tour to Antigua and Barbuda in the autumn, with Charles also undertaking a solo trip to the Bahamas and then Guyana.

Mike Lyons' former team-mates took turns to relate stories of the indefatigable, generous and hugely talented team-mate they knew and loved. But he is struggling now and could not be there.

The clip was filmed at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, which are taking place in Beijing, China.