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Brits are set to enjoy a balmy late-May bank holiday weekend, with a spell of warm, bright weather heralding the onset of the summer months.

The age-defying actress, 59, cut a glamorous figure as she attended the Kering Women In Motion Awards during the 79th Cannes Film Festival in France on Sunday night.

In the 22nd minute of the game at Stade de La Beaujoire, flares were thrown onto the pitch and dozens of fans flooded onto the field in protest against the club's relegation last week.

Dementia patients are being let down at every stage of their care in a failing system that would never be tolerated for cancer or heart disease, a landmark report warns today.

The former Geordie Shore star, 36, discovered she was pregnant with her third child on March 3 and assumed all would be well after two successful pregnancies.

Almost two-thirds of NHS organisations expect to cut or reduce services this year - while more than a half are set to slash jobs.

Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot

160 miles north of New York City, a man was convicted of manslaughter "with the help of license plate reader technology," reports a local news station. In the small town of Troy (population: 51,000), the mayor described the cameras as "a critical tool" in that investigation. But locals and city officials "have raised concerns about who can access the data collected locally, along with data security, privacy invasions and use by federal authorities, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reports WNYT: When Troy's contract came up for renewal, Mayor Carmella Mantello wanted to keep paying Flock and the council paused payments. The mayor then issued a public safety emergency declaration to keep the license plate readers active. The council has filed a lawsuit to overturn that..."If this illegal emergency order is left unchallenged, we give this mayor and any future mayor regardless of their political party or ideology, unchecked authority to issue an emergency declaration whenever they disagree with the council on any issue," [said Troy council president Sue Steele]. "The technology that's in place today is not the technology of six years ago," council president Steele told another local news station. "We have AI, we have rapidly changing and advancing technology. So that begs the need for regulations to protect certain data." The American Civil Liberties Union warns that Flock will use AI to let law enforcement search its trove of videos. But "Listen, if it was infringing on people's rights, people's liberties, we'd be the first to get rid of it. We have safeguards in place," [mayor] Mantello responded. Mantello noted that data captured by Troy's Flock cameras is only being shared with other local municipalities. Steele said the data had been shared nationally until she and other elected officials raised concerns. "As far as sharing with local law enforcement, that's necessary in the normal course of investigations. The concern is what Flock does with this data: sharing it with ICE, for instance, and other nefarious outlets," Steele said. As the debate continues over the small city's 26 Flock cameras, a columnist in Albany wrote that "it's a good thing. We should be asking questions about the growing surveillance state. We should be debating whether this is the future we want." As the American Civil Liberties Union noted, [Flock] has quietly built a broad mass-surveillance infrastructure, with cameras installed in 5,000 communities around the country, and is continually expanding how that network is used. Did we ask for that? Did we vote for it? Not really. The cameras have been installed in municipality after municipality, mostly with little discussion or controversy, which makes us like the proverbial frogs who didn't notice the water getting warmer until it was boiling. Suddenly, surveillance cameras are everywhere; we're always being watched... [T]he City Council's Democratic majority is considering legislation that, among other steps, would require that data collected by the cameras be generally deleted after 48 hours and that the city be more transparent about how the cameras are used. The controversy and pushback continues to draw local coverage. The mayor complains the proposed rules restricts the cameras "almost exclusively to cases involving individuals with outstanding felony arrest warrants or situations where officers can determine in advance that an incident will result in a felony charge... This is beyond reckless." But the Albany columnist still argues many of America's Flock cameras are unnecessary and are "being installed just because... It's worth considering where this might lead and whether the future we're installing is the future we want."

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Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho was holding its annual Gunfighter Skies air show on Sunday when two jets collided midair.

As the delightfully daft and robustly Welsh detective show Death Valley returned, it took a sharp dig at Plaid Cymru politicians who exaggerate their nationalist pride to hoodwink the voters.

An officiating blunder meant the forward was accidentally substituted in the second-half of Santos' 3-0 defeat by Coxa, with Neymar off the pitch receiving treatment at the time.

Spanish racer Marquez, who is the brother of Moto GP legend Marc, crashed into the back of leader Pedro Acosta, who was out in front at the Catalunya Grand Prix after 12 laps of 24.

The baby grey seal, which was christened 'Cold Call', was discovered on January 2 by postman Glen Palmer on the doorstep of a house in Gorleston, Norfolk.

Driver, 42, was asked about his portrayal in Dunham's memoir, Famesick, which was released last month. He said: 'I have no comment on any of that.'

The convicted rapist and paedophile, 49, was arrested alongside an unnamed British man after a clash in the northern German city of Kiel on April 20.

Ginette Bye, 78, was sent the letter by debt collection agency Phillips and Cohen Associateson behalf of Southern Water earlier this month, looking to speak to the executor of her estate.

When your partner comes to bed after you, the disruption means it can take almost 40 minutes longer to fall asleep.

Channel 5's Trading Places sent three young people to one of Britain's most elite private boarding schools

Kristen Stewart opted for an unusual take as she walked the red carpet alongside Emma Mackey for the Full Phil Cannes film premiere on Saturday. 

The family of former police inspector Andy Fusher, 56, also revealed how he had felt under pressure over being given more tasks to do than colleagues at his 'toxic' workplace.