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Denbighshire County Council is trialling the recycling of soft plastics such as crisp packets, chocolate wrappers and ready meal tops with some 4,500 homes.

The fashion designer, 52, has revealed she has never taken a subway in New York and carries around 'sensible' heels in her handbag in a new Instagram video.

After being listed in January for nearly $11 million, the 5,400sq ft beachfront mansion the 'Hulkster' owned in Clearwater Beach, Florida was recently sold for $5.9 million.

The Renters' Rights Act, introduced in May, has made it harder for landlords to evict tenants from their properties and raise rents.

The CDC estimates that 19 drug-resistant pathogens cause 9.7 million infections and more than 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., with resistance continuing to outpace development of new treatments. "The agency considers this problem to be one of our most urgent public health threats," reports NBC News. From the report: The report is the CDC's first comprehensive assessment of these drug-resistant pathogens in seven years. [...] The new report offers a detailed picture of these threats in the U.S., including a ranking of which are the most urgent concerns, based on the number and severity of infections they cause and how easily preventable or transmissible they are. The ranking also factors in how many treatment options exist and their costs. [...] The report estimates that 19 drug-resistant germs cause 9.7 million infections annually in the U.S. Of these, four pathogens are ranked as most worrisome, including the fungus Candida auris and the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, which has become resistant to all but one class of antibiotics used to treat it. The other two urgent threats, according to the CDC, are the bacteria Acinetobacter and Enterobacterales, both of which are resistant to a class of antibiotics widely considered a "last resort" for patients. In addition, the report adds a new bacteria to the list of "concerning" threats, which are considered less worrisome but still warrant monitoring: neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningococcal disease. The rare but life-threatening illness can be prevented through childhood vaccinations, but the bacteria that causes it is slowly developing a resistance to penicillin and another antibiotic called ciprofloxacin. The report also offers some good news: The CDC determined that the bacteria Clostridioides difficile, or "C. diff," which causes diarrhea and inflammation of the colon and can be deadly, is causing fewer cases year over year. The agency downgraded it to a serious threat, whereas it was categorized as urgent in the prior version of the report, which came out in 2019.

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There will be Christmas decorations, exclusive show discounts and tasty food and drink

John Healey looks set to launch a punishing raid on banks today just hours after bumper profits at HSBC sparked an eve of Budget row over windfall taxes.

John Healey has talked of giving the British economy 'breathing space' after the hyper-activity of his predecessor's occupation of Number 11.

DIY SOS viewers have asked the BBC to reconsider their decision to shelve the show due to budget cuts as the last ever episode aired on Tuesday night.

After becoming the first British player in 25 years to win the Ballon d'Or, the most prestigious honour in football, family man Harry Kane celebrated by dancing with his mum at a London nightclub.

Much of the Budget speculation has been about tax rises. Families and businesses are bracing themselves after what happened in the last two Budgets.

Will John Healey follow in Rachel Reeves' steps and hit us with yet another wave of painful taxes? Or will he see the light, change tack and adopt a more ameliorative approach?

We still get a fair bit of old school ASP .Net webforms code, which was cutting edge about twenty years ago, but remains a collection of bad choices that tried to make web programming feel like desktop programming. As an aside, what a reversed world we live in today, where everyone uses Electron and our desktop programming feels like web programming.

In any case, Thomas sends us some pretty ugly webforms code.

Me.Session("Albumid") = CType(e.Item.FindControl("lblAlbumID"), Label).Text If Not Me.Session("Albumid") Is Nothing And Not Me.Session("Uid") Is Nothing Then Me.strDelSQL = "Delete from tbl_Albumshare_Mast where Album_Id=" & Me.Session("Albumid") & " and Sharer_ID=" & Me.Session("Uid") Me.objDB.ExecQry(Me.strDelSQL) Me.Response.Redirect("frmmyalbumshare.aspx", False) End If

Broadly, the goal of this code is to take an album ID from the user and delete an album from the database where the ID matches and the album is owned by this user. And everything is horrible here.

First, the use of e.Item.FindControl to look up the input field is suspicious. That's usually what you do when you've dynamically generated controls, but I don't think that's happening here. Because we use FindControl we have to cast it to Label, and only then can we get the text property. That itself raises a question, because why are user inputs getting stored in a label?. That's not what labels are for. They're clearly doing some sort of hacky lookup/autocomplete field thing and using the label to actually store the input, but presenting the user with a different UI for picking it. Not an uncommon pattern in those days, but a hidden field would be a more typical way of doing it.

We then construct a SQL injection vulnerability and run it against the database.

Then, we use a redirect to send the user to a different page. Again, a common thing to do back then, but a thing I hate: using HTTP 300 codes to redirect users as a form of navigation is awkward and weird.

Of course, none of that is precisely the WTF here. The real WTF is the developer apparently hates local variables. strDelSQL is a member variable- why do we need to store this in a class member? Especially because in the page lifecycle, we handle one request and then die; either this is unnecessary, or far, far worse, some other code is looking at this SQL query later. But far worse than a badly scoped variable is the overuse of session variables.

Thomas sends us this block as a representation, but the developer responsible just stored everything they could in a session variable. While in this example, "Uid" probably makes sense, "Albumid" definitely doesn't. And in other cases, basically every user form input gets stored in a session variable, and even worse: they're often used as loop variables. while Session("myloop") < 5 type stuff.

And finally, we already know I hate hungarian notation, but here we have a client side form holdover that pollutes the user experience: the URL they get redirected to has a hungarian frm prefix. It's bad enough that you're using hungarian notation, but don't show that to your users! They really don't need to see everything.

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“It’s total chaos and a daily battle for us who live here"

The 36-year-old appeared as the cover star for the October/November 2026 edition of The Cut. But dozens of fans began to question Lawrence's seemingly 'changing face.'

'I don't want to be the sole detractor of Celebrity Traitors,' East said. 'But I think they are in danger of starting to f*** around with it too much.'

Domestic abuse survivors in Essex will get faster access to support through a £4.45 million funding boost.

David Williams, 80, was driving a Volkswagen Passat in heavy rain when he struck the 16-year-old in Hatfield Road, Witham, last September.

Domestic abuse survivors in Essex will get faster access to support through a £4.45 million funding boost.

Cadent postpones Hedingham Road closure in Halstead until the new year, avoiding Christmas disruption, while gas main replacement works continue elsewhere.