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The department store's latest festive offering, starring Dame Kristin Scott Thomas as a grandmother who struggles to connect with her grandchildren, has been branded one of its worst in recent years.

The influencer, 19, and her brother, Junior, 21, are currently starring in the latest season of the BBC show

Forget sitting around at home - these pensioners are making the most of their golden years and travelling the world - and spending their childrens' inheritance while doing so.

Gangs involved in robberies, burglaries and knife crime across north west London faced a major police crackdown over Halloween weekend, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Works and repairs are taking place in the area

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion over nine years to settle claims from as many as 120,000 people who say they were sickened by PFAS-contaminated groundwater near military bases, airports and other locations where firefighting foam was used. The Associated Press reports that 3M "did not admit liability," noting that the settlement comes on top of the more than $10 billion the company previously agreed to pay U.S. public drinking water systems over PFAS contamination. From the report: 3M chairman William Brown called the settlement a "significant milestone" that substantially reduces uncertainty from the litigation. [...] Fred Thompson, an attorney with the Motley Rice law firm that helped negotiate the 3M settlement for the plaintiffs, called it welcome news for "the thousands of victims who have sought answers and accountability for nearly a decade." He said in a news release that the plaintiffs urgently need help covering mounting medical bills and other costs. Under the terms of the settlement, the payouts will begin with $50 million this year, followed by yearly payments of more than $1 billion each year from 2028 to 2033. 3M could make additional payments if enough plaintiffs participate. If too few sign on, 3M has the option to cancel the settlement and continue fighting the lawsuit.

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Donald Trump told voters to pretend he was on the ticket, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN, even though he wasn't. So they did.

Foreign keys are an important part of making sure the entities in our relational database can be connected back together and queried correctly. It's part of proper data normalization. This isn't shocking, of course: the order line table has a foreign key over to the products table, so that every line item points to a product we sell. That's database 101. Database 201, you'd also think about the times where you have a hierarchy of records, where say, every Employee has a ManagerId, which is a foreign key back to the Employee table itself (and in database 301, you'll understand why having a ManagerId field is a terrible choice, but that's neither here nor there).

The important thing here is that foreign keys are very common, and foreign keys pointing back to the same table are also very common.

But it can still go very wrong. Roman sends us this foreign key definition in a database they maintain.

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ListingDetails] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Listings_Listings] FOREIGN KEY([Id]) REFERENCES [dbo].[ListingDetails] ([Id])

This ensures that the ListingDetails table's Id field is a foreign key over to the ListingDetails table's Id field. A field is a foreign key back to itself.

Roman writes: "I can't believe SQL Server even allows this..."

I can. While I haven't personally tried this out, a bit of cursory searching implies that this does actually work- the record satisfies its own constraint, so you can still add it to the database. It's basically a no-op, which isn't great, but it's not SQL Server's job to ensure you keep all your toes because they've removed all the footguns.

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October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience

The council has apologised for any disappointment

Jenny Balcarras, 48, and her daughter, Selah Reed, were found dead near Bella Coola, British Columbia, after they were reported missing on Sunday.

Mother of Jayson Gibson, 15, urges lower speed limits and safety measures on Colchester’s dangerous A133 Clingoe Hill, where he died.

Essex mum Natalie Gurney launches petition for mandatory type 1 diabetes training after son Callum was rushed to critical care. Sign by November 11.

Teenage girls trespassed on railway tracks at Burnham railway station on November 2, moments before a train arrived, prompting a British Transport Police warning.

Mother of Jayson Gibson, 15, urges lower speed limits and safety measures on Colchester’s dangerous A133 Clingoe Hill, where he died.

For Carole Coleman, 52, keeping up with her 6ft 7in son Jack for 26.2miles was always going to be a tall order.

Republican Richard Hudson, who chairs the NRCC, has been ousted from what was considered a safe seat in North Carolina's 9th congressional district.

Version 8 of Standard and Enterprise Plus will stay alive until October 2028

The daggers were out for Donald Trump following a crushing election defeat. His deputy and his own son blamed the President's war in Iran for a Republican rout at the hands of voters.