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For the past week, after her much-publicised appearance on the beach in Hove - wrapped in a £175 camo pink Dryrobe, sipping a glass of wine (pictured) - Angela Rayner has kept a low profile.

The decision complicates Trump´s ambitions to upend decades of American trade policy completely on his own.

Officials are looking at proposals to slash the threshold at which small businesses and sole traders have to register for VAT. Pictured: Rachel Reeves

Runners, who have enjoyed free parking, may soon have to pay £4.20 which organisers fear could spell the end of the event

In the wake of a tragedy eight years ago Amie Upton set herself up as an unpaid funeral director and channelled her grief into 'Florrie's Army', a not-for-profit organisation devoted to helping other parents.

The former reality star, 51, who appeared for 13 weeks on the tenth series, previously worked as a window fitter and lived with his mum before entering the infamous Big Brother house.

The 45-year-ole Irresistible hitmaker was seen sitting next to the 45-year-old former NFL player on board of a commercial plane at Burbank Airport on Friday.

Explore the 'extraordinary world full of wonder' on the doorstep right here in Essex

One holidaymaker who suffers from a common condition claimed she had an unusual experience while she was checking in for her flight. She was gobsmacked when security stopped her while at Stansted Airport

The park has its very own cafe, play area, ancient woodlands and picturesque landscapes

When Julie Given gave birth to her daughter, she expected to cradle her in her arms, whisper that everything would be alright, and savour those precious first cuddles every mother dreams of.

A minor accident a man made when he was asleep next to his dog led to a potentially deadly infection that has left him scarred for life.

A FAMOUS pop artist says he wants “to do more to pay homage” to the county he grew up in after performing three spontaneous concerts in north and mid Essex.

A FAMOUS pop artist says he wants “to do more to pay homage” to the county he grew up in after performing three spontaneous concerts in north and mid Essex.

A new car park with 300 spaces will also be built

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis. Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later. The research found that if carbon emissions continued to rise, 70% of the model runs led to collapse, while an intermediate level of emissions resulted in collapse in 37% of the models. Even in the case of low future emissions, an Amoc shutdown happened in 25% of the models. Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided "at all costs." It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels. The new results are "quite shocking, because I used to say that the chance of Amoc collapsing as a result of global warming was less than 10%," said Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who was part of the study team. "Now even in a low-emission scenario, sticking to the Paris agreement, it looks like it may be more like 25%. "These numbers are not very certain, but we are talking about a matter of risk assessment where even a 10% chance of an Amoc collapse would be far too high," added Rahmstorf. "We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is quite a shocking finding as well and why we have to act really fast in cutting down emissions." "Observations in the deep [far North Atlantic] already show a downward trend over the past five to 10 years, consistent with the models' projections," said Prof Sybren Drijfhout, at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who was also part of the team. "Even in some intermediate and low-emission scenarios, the Amoc slows drastically by 2100 and completely shuts off thereafter. That shows the shutdown risk is more serious than many people realize." The findings have been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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Kevin Costner is back on the dating scene - just 18 months after his bitter divorce was finalized.

Locations range from bustling Southend and Walton-on-the-Naze to the historic heart of Colchester

Locations range from bustling Southend and Walton-on-the-Naze to the historic heart of Colchester

The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots

A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.…