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The first episodes feature Under the Canvas founder Ben Gould, Robin Cancer Trust chief Toby Freeman and IC Media director Isaac Crowson.

The authority says the plan will play a key role in ensuring decisions about new housing, jobs, services and infrastructure remain under local control.

A man sexually assaulted cabin crew and racially harassed a woman on a flight on New Year’s Eve, a court heard.

The proposal includes more than 200 'affordable' homes

Samantha Armytage couldn't seem to keep her composure on Wednesday morning when she interviewed the distinctive-looking Muay Thai fighter Ryan McDonald. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the "epicenter of AI development," Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers -- at least until developers provide more information about their projects' potential impacts on the grid and communities. The Republican governor directed regulators in an August 3 announcement at the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the grid operators at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to perform a "comprehensive verification and audit of all data centers advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process." As an independent system operator, ERCOT oversees a power grid that operates separately from the rest of the United States and provides services to most of Texas. Texas has aggressively courted data center development with its availability of cheap land and relatively abundant energy resources, along with offering state incentives, like tax breaks and fewer regulations. That puts the state on track to surpass Virginia in becoming the largest US data center market. But the recent AI boom and the accompanying frenzy of data center development threaten to overwhelm the Texas grid on paper, despite the state leading the country in adding new power generation. The ERCOT interconnection queue currently includes more than 1,800 projects representing over 474 gigawatts' worth of requests to connect to the Texas grid -- more than five times Texas' record peak electricity demand -- and about 90 percent of those power connection requests come from data centers. "That unprecedented load growth could endanger the reliability and stability of the Texas electric grid," according to the statement from Abbott's office. Many of those data center projects may never materialize for various reasons. But ERCOT has still forecast that data center demand and other factors could drive statewide electricity demand to double the current demand record by 2032, according to The Texas Tribune. The review will examine each project's projected electricity consumption, reliance on the grid and state incentives, ownership, and water use. It will also assess measures intended to "reduce impacts on neighboring property owners and communities," including noise controls, lighting, traffic improvements, setbacks, and emergency planning. Ars Technica notes that the directive does not address air pollution or greenhouse-gas emissions and does not apply to data centers generating their own power on-site.

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Mohamed Mohamoud, 22, was said to be 'longing for martyrdom' when he left Bristol in a failed bid to join ISIS.He had sought advice from the unnamed AI chatbot before travelling to Somalia, a court heard.

A report by the Muslim Council of Britain suggested that 49 constituencies would become major targets for Muslim independent candidates by 2029 thanks to demographic changes.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin's €53million (£45m) Dassault Falcon 6X is supposed to be kitted out with a FalconEye system which helps the plane land in inclement conditions.

Irish firefighter Terence Crosbie, 39, was convicted of raping an unidentified woman in a Boston hotel while he was visiting for the St Patrick's Day Parade.

Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge

John Schweizer, 69, of Niantic, was snorkeling with reef sharks with his wife, Marcy, and their adult children, Tom and Joe, when the predator latched onto his left leg and pulled him under the water.

The 34-year-old center recently finished a dominant 2025-26 campaign for her team in Monaco, leading France's second-tier Ligue 2 in both scoring and rebounding.

The sadness in the Jadon Sancho story is that he has succumbed to the very thing he warned against, writes NATHAN SALT.

The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first

Leon Gillespie, 26, was fined for the disrespectful stunt, in which he dressed head to toe in the black hooded outfit and stood overlooking the hospital entrance.

Prof Jason Arday became a poster boy for diversity as the university's youngest ever black professor, but is now facing questions about his academic record.

Only five NHS trusts in England have fully digitised patient records, despite Government pledges to make the NHS paperless, the King's Fund found.

Restore leader Rupert Lowe on Tuesday set out his party's economic policies. It threatens to disrupt negotiations between Reform and Restore before they have even got off the ground.

Following his Hell in a Cell loss to Femi at SummerSlam in Minneapolis, the 10-time WWE champion confirmed on The Pat McAfee Show that the time has finally come for him to bow out.