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The Mail on Sunday can reveal the field in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, is to be 'desecrated' - after Ed Miliband gave the go-ahead to a sprawling solar farm as part of his Net Zero crusade.

A three-night stay for four at the Longleat Center Parcs during half-term currently costs £1,999...but opt for one of the UK's other holiday parks and there's still bargains galore to be had.

We all know people who are the life and soul of the party. And those who would rather do anything else than spend their weekend socialising.

The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office

Comment  Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's "my way or the highway" approach to the issue threatens to do more harm than good.…

'The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.'

The NHS has been accused of 'taking the knee' to political correctness by advocating the benefits of marriages between cousins - despite it carrying an increased risk of birth defects.

The Duke's furious broadside is an echo of his mother Princess Diana 's criticism of shadowy royal courtiers - who she also derided as 'the men in grey suits' and accused of undermining her.

McIlroy was tormented about Erica, his ex-fiancee tennis star Caroline Wozniacki and other aspects of his personal life by fans as he conquered the Bethpage course.

This Oscar-nominated actor looked unrecognizable as he made a rare outing in Manhattan recently - 41 years after his most famed starring role.

The Ryder Cup took an ugly turn on Saturday when fans and players alike came close to blows on a tense day of hostile behavior and crass abuse.

Tina Brown wrote in her book, The Palace Papers: 'At college, she had her pick of the sought-after basketball hunks. She was always very clear about who she wanted, her father told me.'

The House of Guinness is a period drama created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), set in Dublin and New York in the 19th century, and it follows the fortunes of this powerful, famous family.

The Red Roses put on a consistently strong performance against Canada in the showdown at Twickenham on Saturday in front of thousands of supporters.

Selena Gomez, 33, married her fiancé of nine months Benny Blanco, 37, at a ceremony just north of Santa Barbara in California on Saturday evening.

The series, created by Rick and Morty's Matt Roller, landed on the streaming platform on September 19 and has quickly become one of its most talked-about titles.

TALK OF THE TOWN: The 40-year-old pop star - who has knocked two years off her age on her profile - has rejoined Raya once again.

The showbiz correspondent, 63, made his BBC dance debut on Saturday night, performing the cha-cha-cha with professional partner Jowita to Katy Perry's California Gurls.

The girlfriend of American PGA Tour pro Jake Knapp revealed she was dealing with health issues in the months prior to her sudden and tragic death at the age of 28.

Abuse of Team Europe's players - and McIlroy in particular - has been a theme of the weekend in Long Island, New York, but it crossed a line during day two's four-balls and led to a series of ejections.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data": "A provided data model may include a tree specification that declares parent-child relationships between objects in the data model. In response to a query associated with objects in the data model: employing the parent-child relationships to determine a tree that includes parent objects and child objects from the objects based on the parent-child relationships; determining a root object based on the query and the tree; traversing the tree from the root object to visit the child objects in the tree; determining partial results based on characteristics of the visited child objects such that the partial results are stored in an intermediate table; and providing a response to the query that includes values based on the intermediate table and the partial results." A set of 15 simple drawings is provided to support the legal and tech gobbledygook of the invention claims. A person can have a manager, Tableau explains in Figures 5-6 of its accompanying drawings, and that manager can also manage and be managed by other people. Not only that, Tableau illustrates in Figures 7-10 that computers can be used to count how many people report to a manager. How does this magic work, you ask? Well, you "generate [a] tree" [Fig. 13] and "traverse a tree" [Fig. 15], Tableau explains. But wait, there's more — you can also display the people who report to a manager in multi-level or nested pie charts (aka Sunburst charts), Tableau demonstrates in Fig. 11. Interestingly, Tableau released a "pre-Beta" Sunburst chart type in late April 2023 but yanked it at the end of June 2023 (others have long-supported Sunburst charts, including Plotly). So, do you think Tableau should be awarded a patent in 2025 on a concept that has roots in circa-1921 Sunburst charts and tree algorithms taught to first-year CS students in circa-1975 Data Structures courses?

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