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The Met Office has predicted rainfall throughout the day across Essex today, with an hour-by hour forecast.

The Met Office has predicted rainfall throughout the day across Essex today, with an hour-by hour forecast.

Firefighters were called to Birchanger Service Station near Stansted Airport yesterday after a lorry became engulfed in flames.

The latest American sanctions promised 'the toughest sanctions in history' on 60 individuals, entities and vessels, including those based in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Jordana Askenazi of Element One House shares 21 renovation choices you may want to think carefully about before putting your house on the market - or risk devaluing it altogether.

The products are 'equivalent to fruit smoothies' and should be off the table for those aged under one, researchers have suggested.

Families began setting up camp days after barging on to a beauty spot in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, and ripping up the land with bulldozers and diggers in April this year.

Charlotte Body from Southend was expelled from school aged 14 and left with just one GCSE - but became a millionaire by 30.

In 2004, after eight years playing for Liverpool, Michael was offered the chance to join the Spanish club - widely regarded to be the best team in the world.

Anthony's attempt for a retrial in the case that ended with his murder conviction was rejected Saturday.

The debacle at hedge fund Situational Awareness seems an ominous reminder of the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds in July 2007.

The Left-wing Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for a reform of a system that is 'heavily tilted towards taxing work and younger earners'.

Parton, who has passed away at age 80, seemed in great spirits and as upbeat as ever even as she addressed her fans in her final public appearance on August 14.

SpaceX plans to spend up to $100 billion building a new Starship launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, which the state says could eventually "support thousands of launches annually." CNBC reports: Once built, Starbase, LA will serve as the main launch facility for Starship, SpaceX's in-development rocket that's the largest ever built and designed to be fully reusable. Musk has aspirations to massively expand SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, to launch orbital data centers and to someday colonize Mars. Those ambitions, and justification for SpaceX's nearly $2 trillion market cap, hinge on the success of Starship. SpaceX said, in a video posted to its website on Tuesday, that the search for a site to build launch pads and have access to ample fuel for its operations took about seven years. Musk said in the video that the company would bring "probably 10,000 really exciting jobs" to Louisiana with the spaceport. A fact sheet posted online by the state of Louisiana said SpaceX is expected to generate an estimated "3,000 direct new jobs over the next 10 years" in the state, and "8,100 indirect new jobs." SpaceX said it would work on a "historic coastal restoration" in Louisiana, in partnership with the state to "bring the marsh back" and ensure the wetlands around its new facility will have "storm protection."

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Kristina Rihanoff looked amazing in a black bikini on Tuesday as she hit the beach with lookalike daughter Mila, 10, during a family holiday to Florida.

A 160-year-old mine in Devon is set to reopen eight years after being closed down following a £71million cash injection from the government.

The London-listed housebuilder is among the first to have been allocated cash under Labour's new social and affordable homes programme and will be able to build 3,028 homes.

Kevin sends us an exception handler from C++. Let's see if we can spot what's going wrong:

catch (Exception::Deadlock) { retry; }

When we catch a deadlock happening, we retry. That's not a keyword in C++, and looking at how it's used, it has to be some kind of macro, and I suspect that the macro is hiding a goto underneath it.

The real problem, though, is that we suspect we're in a deadlock situation. That means this thread is waiting on a resource held by another thread which is waiting for a resource held by this thread. Neither train may continue until the other has passed. So this retry only works if it releases the resource held by this thread (letting the deadlocking thread proceed). But does it?

Not according ot Kevin. The code already had a pile of deadlocks in it, so they brought in a highly paid consultant to try and fix them by reordering access and tracing where mutexes were causing issues. This retry just jumps back up to the top of the block, without releasing any resources. It "seems the consultant wanted to add some deadlocks of their own," Kevin says.

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Zebra print is back for autumn 2026 - and it's had a chic makeover. Discover 7 high-street outfits and stylish ways to wear the animal print trend this season.

Billy Ray Cyrus shared an emotional tribute to his close friend and collaborator Dolly Parton following her shock death on Tuesday.