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Andy Burnham looks set to appoint 'Red Ed' Miliband as his new Chancellor following his 'coronation' as the new Prime Minister in the coming weeks.

Diana Vickers has been branded 'summer's Mariah Carey' as she releases a remix of her viral hit song Picky Bits, for a new collaboration with Marks & Spencer.

Ben Davies, 25, said the large timber structure, which was built 2.7 metres above a private lane between neighbouring homes, was a practical solution to the incline.

Using WXCharts, we take a look at when the heatwave in Essex looks set to end. Met Office issue red heat warning for this week.

Using WXCharts, we take a look at when the heatwave in Essex looks set to end. Met Office issue red heat warning for this week.

Not long before he murdered her, Gogoa Tape sent his girlfriend Kennedi a letter in which he wrote that he wanted to kill her.

Most of us enjoy sunny weather but with rail lines buckling, schools closing and essential services failing, this is clearly no ordinary heatwave.

They are two of the biggest names in pop music and Madonna and Charli XCX bonded over a cigarette as they smoked while on the front row at Saint Laurent Men's Paris Fashion Week show.

Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition

Melissa Gilbert has packed up the Upper West Side apartment she called home for eight years, sharing pictures of boxes piled high and a wistful farewell to the city.

Older generations often complain that they don't make songs like they used to. Now, a study confirms that this really is the case, as song lyrics have shifted from moral virtues to vices.

Rice and long-term partner Lauren Fryer have a three-year-old son Jude, who joined them in recent on-pitch Premier League title celebrations - as well as at last night's game.

Taylor Swift stunned fans with a surprise performance at fiancé Travis Kelce 's Tight End University. With just days to spare ahead of the couple's wedding.

Bill Gates told Congress he had three extramarital affairs, naming medical entrepreneur Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt and Russian nuclear scientist Karima Nigmatulina. He said he told his wife Melinda.

Three fire crews have tackled a car fire on the A12 near Chelmsford after being called out.

Three fire crews have tackled a car fire on the A12 near Chelmsford after being called out.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you might reasonably assume it contained a familiar psychedelic. But that does not appear to be the case with Lanmaoa asiatica, known locally as jian shou qing, a mushroom species sold in markets in Yunnan, southwestern China. When eaten undercooked, the mushroom can produce vivid visions of miniature people -- not unlike Gulliver on his travels to Lilliput. To try and find out the root cause, University of Utah mycologists Colin Domnauer and Bryn Dentinger sequenced the genomes of 53 mushroom samples from across the wider Lanmaoa genus. And despite the reported hallucinations, they found no close matches to genes associated with psilocybin or ibotenic acid, two well-known mushroom hallucinogens whose biosynthetic pathways were specifically examined in the study. "Biosynthetic gene mining of the L. asiatica genome found no close hits with any genes known in the production of mushroom psychoactive compounds," write the researchers in their published paper. "This supports our hypothesis of the presence of a novel unidentified metabolite responsible for the unique hallucinogenic properties of L. asiatica." [...] Whatever chemical pathways are causing these effects in the brain, the responsible compound appears to be something scientists have not yet identified. [...] By identifying 1,515 corresponding genes across the selected specimens, the researchers obtained a clearer answer to the question of what defines a mushroom species as part of the genus Lanmaoa. There are now 17 recognized species in the genus, including four that haven't been identified before, two of which the researchers specifically named here: Lanmaoa fallax and Lanmaoa carbonilivor. The researchers say the Lanmaoa family and evolutionary tree can now be more fully mapped out, and some existing specimens may need to be reclassified.

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The report said that children love coming to school and are excited to find out what they will be learning each day

Given that one in five people in the UK will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, it's in everyone's interest to know the warnings signs.

Sweating is one of those bodily functions we don't tend to think much about until it starts causing problems. Or, of course, during a heatwave.