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Business confidence has collapsed to its lowest level on record as firms face a 'cacophony of risk' under Labour, bosses of industry warned last night.

Le Creuset fans are 'screeching' in excitement as the major kitchenware brand has announced it is bringing its Factory To Table sale to the UK for the first time ever.

A Harvard trained doctor has urged people to remove three 'toxic' items from their bedrooms.

Elizabeth Hurley and her mother Angela left fans bedazzled as they showcased their incredible, ageless figures in their matching leopard swimwear on Thursday.

A bride revealed her wedding day was 'ruined' after her £300 wedding cake was delivered in pieces. The British newlywed took to her TikTok to share snaps of the three-tier cake

Looking back on the relationship years later, Janice, 70, had emphatic words to describe what she saw when Liam, 73, got undressed.

Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots

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Jack, which sat atop the boys' names popularity list every year between 1996 and 2008, last year ranked 22nd, with just 1,711 babies being given the name.

A masked gang raided Harry Redknapp's £5million Dorset mansion and stole his wife's jewellery, while police have launched a manhunt to find the thieves.  

On the show Dejon, 26, has come under fire for his behaviour towards Meg, 25, after keeping her around but continuously flirting with every bombshell that enters the villa.

Fears are growing for a British woman who disappeared from Almeria three days ago.

Freakier Friday - which is a sequel to the 2003 film - sees Lindsay Lohan and Jamie embroiled in quadruple chaos as they swap bodies again - 22 years after they first traded places.

Police have appealed for information following the incident in Drumnadrochit on the banks of the Loch Ness in Scotland.

Lee Beard called what he thought was a genuine customers service number and was reassured by security checks and the professionalism of the call handler - but his mistake nearly cost him £30,000.

Founded by American entrepreneur Sean Cook in 2023, Tea exploded in popularity earlier this month - in part due to its divisive premise.

This luxury SUV graced the Royal garage for two years, having been delivered by the British brand's bespoke car department in 2006 and relieved of its royal duties in 2008.

British holidaymakers heading parts of Spain over the summer could risk hefty fines of up to €250 (£210) if they are caught violating the strict new sunbed rules.

The parents reportedly left their child alone at Barcelona's El Prat international airport on Wednesday and arranged for a relative to pick him up so they wouldn't miss their flight.

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Researchers have created a microphone that listens with light instead of sound. Unlike traditional microphones, this visual microphone captures tiny vibrations on the surfaces of objects caused by sound waves and turns them into audible signals. In the journal Optics Express, the researchers describe the new approach, which applies single-pixel imaging to sound detection for the first time. Using an optical setup without any expensive components, they demonstrate that the technique can recover sound by using the vibrations on the surfaces of everyday objects such as leaves and pieces of paper. [...] To demonstrate the new visual microphone, the researchers tested its ability to reconstruct Chinese and English pronunciations of numbers as well as a segment from Beethoven's Fur Elise. They used a paper card and a leaf as vibration targets, placing them 0.5 meters away from the objects while a nearby speaker played the audio. The system was able to successfully reconstruct clear and intelligible audio, with the paper card producing better results than the leaf. Low-frequency sounds (1 kHz) showed slight distortion that improved when a signal processing filter was applied. Tests of the system's data rate showed it produced 4 MB/s, a rate sufficiently low to minimize storage demands and allow for long-term recording. "Currently, this technology still only exists in the laboratory and can be used in special scenarios where traditional microphones fail to work," said research team leader Xu-Ri Yao from Beijing Institute of Technology in China. "We aim to expand the system into other vibration measurement applications, including human pulse and heart rate detection, leveraging its multifunctional information sensing capabilities."

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The Conservative leader said those who 'pretend' the UK is an awful place for ethnic minorities, and those who promote ethno-nationalism, are damaging society.