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Essex flood alerts issued as overnight high tides threaten coastal flooding on October 14, affecting Clacton, Mersea Island, Maldon, Harwich and Suffolk.

A turbulent Technical challenge saw all of the remaining bakers' attempts fall short, with even judge Nigella Lawson joking they should be forced to eat their creations as a punishment.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national working as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a recording device at the AI giant's office.

A former England World Cup-winning star has revealed his incredible body transformation after taking up bodybuilding.

He was pictured proudly showing off his dad bod as he hit the beach with his younger model girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti in Hawaii.

As a child born with cerebral palsy, who had to walk with braces and endure the vicious attentions of bullies, Roy Mitte was well-acquainted with adversity.

Olivia Colman joined her co-star Alexander Skarsgard at a New York screening for their film Wicker which has been labelled 'a mortifying adult fairy tale'. 

The Big Night Out star, real name Jim Moir, was wheeled away by paramedics after collapsing during a party while celebrating a friend's wedding.

The committee's Labour chairman, Dame Emily Thornberry, gushed that it was 'a unique and historic day - we are sooo honoured'.

Halle Berry says that a photo of her submitted by ex-husband Olivier Martinez to the court in their ongoing custody case does not prove his claims that she abused their son, according to a new filing.

New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career

The bus company has claimed it could lead to its bus services at the school stopping entirely

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are limbering up for their first public engagement together since coming back to the UK.

Disney+ has built an impressive library of entertainment - here's our critic's list of the best underrated shows to watch right now

Discovery+ has raised prices for new subscribers, increasing its ad-free plan from $10 to $12 per month and its ad-supported plan from $6 to $7. The hike comes shortly after Paramount Skydance acquired Warner Bros. Discovery. Ars Technica reports: The new prices take effect for new subscribers immediately. Current subscribers to the streaming service, which primarily features unscripted content, like reality shows and documentaries, will receive 30 days' notice before the new prices take effect, starting with bills issued as of November 12. [...] However, a Skydance spokesperson told Ars Technica that the pricing changes were in the works before Discovery+ knew about the merger's closing date and were not planned in anticipation of a merger. The spokesperson said that Discovery+'s prices are regularly evaluated to ensure that they are in line with the content and experience that the service offers, and the new prices reflect that. Discovery+ has increased its prices three times since launching in 2012. Before today, the most recent price hike occurred in January 2025, when ad-based monthly subscriptions increased from $5 to $6, and ad-free plans went from $9 to $10.

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Chris Philp has written to both the Met Police and West Midlands Police demanding criminal investigations following the Mail on Sunday's shocking revelations.

Of the 3.7million new roles recorded under the PAYE system since 2014, just 734,000 were taken by UK nationals, a think-tank has found.

For babies born in 1996 across England and Wales, Smith, Jones and Williams were the most common. Taylor, Brown, Davies, Evans, Thomas, Johnson and Wilson rounded out the top ten.

Mandy's co-worker recently learned about virtual inheritance in C++. It's become their new favorite button to push, and they only use virtual inheritance.

Virtual inheritance is one workaround for the "diamond problem", where you have an inheritance tree that "recombines" via multiple inheritance: when a child class has a Hapsburg-esque parentage, it's hard to decide which inherited methods are being invoked or overridden.

In C++, imagine you have class A, which gets derived into classes B and C. Class D then uses multiple inheritance to inherit from B and C. In practice, this means that D inherits from A twice, and would have two internal copies of all of A's members.

If, on the other hand, you have B and C inherit virtually (class B : public virtual A), then class D will only actually inherit a single copy of A.

If you're reading this and going, "Boy, this just sounds like another reason to avoid multiple inheritance," you're probably right. The important thing, though, is inheriting virtually impacts how your child classes will inherit. It only matters if you have child classes.

Which brings us back to Mandy's co-worker. He read somewhere that defaulting to virtual inheritance all the time was safer, so he did that all the time. All. The. Time.

Including in this case:

class SomeSpecificDerivedClass final : public virtual SomeBaseClass

The class here is marked final. It can't be inherited from. The use of virtual accomplishes nothing.

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Prince Harry and Meghan have been back in the UK for just over a month, and so far 'reverse Megxit' has raised more questions than answers.