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Essex Police warns residents about Winter Fuel Payment scams, with fraudsters using fake texts, emails and websites to steal personal and bank details.

Essex Police warns residents about Winter Fuel Payment scams, with fraudsters using fake texts, emails and websites to steal personal and bank details.

A man who was mysteriously decapitated nearly 2,000 years ago has been brought back to life through a remarkable facial reconstruction.

The pop star took to her Instagram on Thursday with a fun-filled photo dump documenting their recent trip together.

A crash on the A12 near Feering is causing severe delays for drivers heading Londonbound.

A crash on the A12 near Feering is causing severe delays for drivers heading Londonbound.

Where in the UK can you enjoy the best quality of life without paying a fortune? The results are in - and some surprising cities are beating the big-name hotspots

From Coq au Vin to Devilled Kidneys on toast and Spam fritters, a trip down to your local in decades gone by was for far more than just a pint.

Former Coronation Street star Adam Rickitt has revealed he paid himself just £12,000 last year from his business, after once making £5,000 for a 30-minute club appearance.

Matthew Gibbs shouted 'I am the CEO' at Julie Mayes when she tried to stop him from being hostile towards volunteers, Liverpool Employment Tribunal heard.

She's a billionaire chart-topping singer with a haul of awards, an abundance of celebrity friends and a hunky NFL champ for a husband. But what's missing? An Academy Award.

In a video seen on X, two hooded demonstrators were seen stood on tables outside the pub and placing several poppy stickers on the pub sign and its shopfront.

Man in his 20s dies after incident in Abercrombie Way, Harlow, on October 30. Essex Police says the unexpected death is not suspicious.

Man in his 20s dies after incident in Abercrombie Way, Harlow, on October 30. Essex Police says the unexpected death is not suspicious.

It marked the first time a working member of the Royal Family has appeared on a British talk show, but if Prince William was nervous about his debut, he certainly didn't show it.

An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from a Wired article that explores the often-contentious process of nominating pages for deletion when their subjects fail to meet the encyclopedia's notability standards: What do you need to know -- need to know -- about Xavier Trudeau? The eldest son of former Canadian prime minister Justin, the teenage Trudeau has recently begun performing R&B under the mononym Xav. But, with all due respect to Xav, do those facts make him a person of note? Should you expect to be able to read about him on Wikipedia? What about Evanescence guitarist Tim McCord, or 2012 Yachtmaster of the Year Rainer Holtorff? All three have had a biography on Wikipedia; all three of those biographies were considered for deletion this year on the grounds that the subjects were not notable enough to warrant a biography at all. Every day, dozens, sometimes hundreds, of Wikipedia biographies -- of child actors turned LA realtors, retired ambassadors, soccer players who have played less than 10 minutes of professional soccer -- are purged from the world's free encyclopedia. It's not as though Wikipedia, which hosts over 7 million articles in the English language, doesn't have the space. But Wikipedia has only so many volunteers to monitor its contents. To this day, Wikipedia editors are discovering hoaxes that have gone undetected for decades. The time it takes to verify the release dates of Xav's three singles is better spent -- the logic goes -- by asking whether the American Civil War officer Nathaniel Lyon really drank mustard during battle, as was claimed in his Wikipedia biography for 17 years. Wikipedia removed the mustard claim, not because it was proven wrong, but because there was no reliable evidence for it. "We're not really looking for what's true," Britta Gustafson, who has been editing Wikipedia since 2001, told me. "We're looking for what's verifiable." Wikipedia editors do not themselves decide that a person is not notable, only that there is a lack of reliable evidence to support the claim...

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The hilarious scene played out Thursday in Rock Hill, as Trump rallied supporters ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.

Police Scotland have confirmed enquiries into stays at the King's Scottish Highlands estate by the late convicted paedophile and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who has since been jailed.

Around 200 passengers were given just hours to pack their bags and leave a scheduled stop in Cambodia after operator Villa Vie Residences announced it had 'suspended operations'.