Shellfish exports to the EU from the Menai Strait have all but collapsed, but fishers are looking to the future

Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds

Judge warns he will not permit case ‘to descend into a wide-ranging public inquiry’ The former editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, is to be called as a witness in the legal action brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other household names against the newspaper’s publishers over allegations of unlawful information gathering, the high court was told. Antony White KC, for Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), said Dacre, 77, now the editor-in-chief of ANL’s DMG Media company, and Peter Wright, a former editor of the Mail on Sunday, could be called as early witnesses in the trial, scheduled to begin on 19 January. Continue reading...

Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil The government will take over full responsibility for special educational needs spending from local councils, it was revealed at the budget, prompting warnings that the Department for Education could be facing a £20bn timebomb in two years. The Office for Budget Responsibility said the annual costs of special educational needs and disability (Send) spending in England would reach £6bn a year by 2028, increasing the urgency of a potentially decisive overhaul of Send provision in a schools white paper expected early next year. Continue reading...

Three men from a construction company were arrested.

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A council in Northern Ireland has begun work to change the name of a street named after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - the first in the UK to do so.

Nearly two months after the militarized raid that roused them from their sleep and made international headlines, residents who remain at 7500 South Shore Drive are fighting back.

A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by a trio of brothers cleaning out their late mother’s attic, netted $9.12 million at a Texas auction house which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold.

Shortage of specialist doctors means ‘service is in crisis’ according to chair of Royal College of Pathologists Bereaved parents are enduring “harrowing” delays of more than a year to find out why their child died because the NHS has too few specialist doctors to perform postmortems. The shortage of paediatric and perinatal pathologists is revealed in a report by the Royal College of Pathologists published on Sunday. It warns that the situation is “dire”, services in some parts of the UK have “totally collapsed” and families are paying the price. 37% of consultant posts in the UK are lying vacant the UK has just 52 paediatric and perinatal consultants but 13 are due to retire in the next five years just 3% of consultants think current staffing levels are enough to sustain their service only 13 resident doctors are in training to become consultants in the specialty Continue reading...

Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused

Toronto is looking at a licensing e-bikes and e-scooters, which could close a gap in protections for delivery riders and other road users.

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.

This is not a large-scale public launch, nor a commercial one. But it brings the Amazon-owned company one step closer to competing with Waymo.

A man has pleaded guilty to selling a substance online to assist with the suicide of others.

The rave scene was a huge moment for gen-Xers like me, coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s.

A honey manufacturing factory in American Fork was destroyed in a fire early Sunday.

Fifty years after Franco’s death, autocracy is going strong