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RAF chiefs expect to send weapons into the galaxy for the first time as part of a £7.8billion giant leap for UK defence.

Paul Street created a 'toxic' culture and engaged in 'salacious gossip' with former PC Josh Williams after he found intimate footage on the woman's phone.

Katie Price's estranged husband Lee Andrews reportedly conned a man out of his $200,000 life savings meaning he was forced to live in his car.

First Sea Lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, has previously cautioned that Britain is 'at risk' of losing its naval advantage to Vladimir Putin's maritime forces.

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Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, was recorded visibly struggling to speak during a Wednesday meeting on Capitol Hill.

"As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind," reports the Los Angeles Times. He was thinking about "the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach near San Clemente at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant." "Rising sea levels, storm waves, El Niño which increases wave height ... these could wash away a section of the walkway that protects the San Onofre seawall, and the waste canisters are just 100 feet away from that," the former wave dynamics researcher and longtime advocate against beach storage of nuclear waste said. Most experts agree the risk of erosion damaging the nuclear waste storage system is extremely low in the near term. The plant's owner, Southern California Edison, has promised the California Coastal Commission to move the waste to higher elevation on-site if modeling shows sea level rise and erosion will start to pose a challenge. But the recent waves, fueled by Hurricane Marie far away in the Pacific, resurfaced the issue of the ultimate fate of the highly radioactive spent fuel that used to power the reactors. "At the moment, it is under control, I think it's essential to say that," said James Day, a geology professor at UC San Diego. "But geologically we must be thinking long term. The waste lasts for hundreds, if not thousands of generations...." [In 2103 some of the site's canisters' approach their intended 100-year lifespans, and the utility may have to start the transfer into new cansiters.] The distinctive twin domes that once housed the reactor cores will start coming down early next year. But the 3.6 million pounds of high-level waste will stay in the coastal community indefinitely. How much of a safety hazard that is depends on whom you ask. "San Onofre is sitting on some fairly young rocks in a seismically active region," Day said at a recent symposium at the Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla, hosted by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation. "This is not the sort of place you would leave nuclear waste." Others noted that collapse of beach slopes could make the site more vulnerable to tsunamis. They spoke of the corrosive effects of the ocean air on the steel canisters that hold the waste... Edison says its system will be safe for decades to come. "The maximum credible tsunami here would not even overtake the seawall," said Manuel Camargo, principal manager of decommissioning for Edison, standing on the concrete pad that holds the steel waste storage canisters. "The maximum credible earthquake, somewhere around a 7.0 magnitude, would produce something about half of what this system is designed to withstand...." Edison is bolstering a path below the seawall. Based on state data from the California Ocean Protection Council, the seawall would not be inundated before 2050, Camargo said... Plans for a deep geological repository beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada crumbled in the face of local opposition in 2011. Utilities around the U.S. now sue the federal government every year to recoup their storage expenses because the Department of Energy has not come through on its promise. The lawsuits cost taxpayers $2 million a day, according to Camargo. "It's so safe that it's almost a problem," Camargo said. "It's not a priority to a lot of folks to move it." "The Trump administration's Department of Energy wants to create 'campuses' in several states to store waste," the article points out, "and, in exchange, give local jurisdictions funding to develop different aspects of the nuclear cycle — such as fuel creation, power generation and potentially fuel recycling..." "The administration wants to address the fact that waste is sitting at 80 reactor sites around the country. It also needs places for waste from new reactors it wants to build."

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Floral tributes have been laid close to the playground in the tiny village of Brantham, Suffolk, where the non-verbal and partially deaf three-year-old was last seen on Tuesday.

Researchers say users of the drugs are 11 times more likely to have their stomach contents come back up into the throat while under anaesthetic compared to those who do not.

Rami Malek took picture perfect on the red carpet one step further on Wednesday as he asked to check a photographer's camera during The Man I Love premiere. 

Police were called to Novi Sad bridge, which is located close to Norwich City's Carrow Road, at around 12.40pm on Tuesday.

GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns

Alves, whose real name is Maria Eduarda Alves, had racked up more than 762,000 followers on TikTok by sharing comedic videos.

Harry Sparkes will voice the little blue engine in a reboot of the children's classic.

The actress, 44, plays international film star Carla Duval, while Dominic takes on the role of wealthy British tech entrepreneur, Morgan Henderson.

Carole Langley's body was found at an address in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on Monday morning.

Gage Weida, 31, and Daniel Castillo, 46, died when the Los Angeles metro bus they were riding was hit by a speeding SUV, and the news helicopter went down while filming the wreckage.

TV farmer Jimmy Doherty helped liberate the Asiatic black bears after they spent more than two decades confined behind rusty metal bars.

Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28

His ex-wife Lindsay Clancy was on trial for their three children's murders earlier this year, which ended in a sensational 11-1 jury deadlock and mistrial.