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Man jailed for murdering 20-year-old man in flat

Caleb Ferguson must serve a minimum of 16 years for killing a 20-year-old man in Perth.




2

Hidden message in a bottle found in lighthouse wall after 132 years

Engineers were shocked to find the message deep inside the wall of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland.




2

Six ways the Budget will affect you if you're under 25

Among the policies announced by the chancellor, some will have a direct impact on younger people.




2

Sammy Wilson admits meetings with Sinn Féin

The secret meetings were revealed by Rev Harold Good in a new book, In Good Time.




2

Sinn Féin councillor suspended over alleged inappropriate messages

JJ Magee is suspended from the party after an allegation that inappropriate online messages were exchanged between him and a minor.




2

Pub closure warning: Many landlords only make 12p a pint

The boss of Britain's biggest pubs group urges the chancellor to extend business rates relief.




2

Pub landlord fears Budget may cost him £24K a year

The new Labour government is expected to announce spending cuts and tax rises in Wednesday's Budget.




2

'The A245 is a total traffic shambles'

Runnymede and Weybridge MP, Dr Ben Spencer talks traffic, tax, innovation and technology.




2

Northampton's East Stand 'on track' for early 2025

Chairman Kelvin Thomas says the project is running to schedule and should finish early next year.




2

Plan for £20m budget on children's homes

A council wants to develop children's homes and office spaces for service staff.




2

A27 reopens following crashes and oil spill

The A27 has re-opened in both directions after the road was shut on Tuesday morning.




2

NME magazine collection sells for £2,590

Tony Howard amassed almost 3,000 copies of the music magazine, which went under the hammer in Louth.




2

Al Dancer in 25-1 shock & Nicholls has five winners

Gallant grey Al Dancer lands the Badger Cheer Chase at Wincanton, while trainer Paul Nicholls has five winners.




2

12,000 pubs for one man from Penkhull

73-year-old Rob Cocker from Penkhull has now had a drink in 12,000 pubs nationwide.




2

Hospice to cut 21 jobs amid funding gap

John, whose wife Wendy is being cared for at the hospice, said it deserved more government funding.




2

Hunting Act: Countryside still divided 20 years on

Hunters claim it is a "way of life", but their opponents say they are breaking the law.




2

Gloucestershire spinner Smith signs T20-only deal

Gloucestershire spin-bowler Tom Smith signs a one-year T20-only contract extension with the club through the 2025 season.




2

Gloucestershire street sold at auction for £2.5 million!

Residents can stay, but some fear for their future, Duncan Cook reports.




2

Father shares journey after son Joshua's murder in 2021

Michael Hall shares his journey since son's death, Georgia Stone reports.




2

Council defends spending £250k on PR jobs

Cotswold District Council says the new roles were to make sure residents were aware of the "vital services" it provided.




2

Grandchild takes WW2 soldier's bear to every parade

A tiny bear taken to war and handed down to his granddaughter attends every parade - in her pocket.




2

Plans to build 125 new homes on a field

The developer is submitting a more detailed application after outline plans were approved in 2023.




2

Two more villages included in 20mph scheme

The speed restriction zone is backed by most residents taking part in a consultation, says council.




2

Burglar stole gecko and sold it for £20

Michael Hesketh is jailed for six months for breaking into an animal park and snatching a gecko.




2

‘I saw a GP 12 times before my tumour was found'

A mum says she felt like a nuisance because she had to repeatedly try to find out what was wrong.




2

Council could face £2m bill in solar farm row

Preston is one of 23 councils facing legal action from a council in Essex over botched investments.




2

Council faces 'radical action' to save £28m in budget

Cash-strapped Slough Borough Council says it is facing an "unprecedented magnitude" of cuts.




2

First acts revealed for Download 2025

Headliners Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn will be joined on the bill by Weezer and McFly.




2

A12 slip road closes after lorry overturns

The junction is expected to remain shut during rush hour but southbound is still open, police say.




2

Council spends £2.5m on temporary homeless housing

Sandwell Council says there are currently 220 households living in temporary accommodation.




2

Jet2 opening new base at UK airport

Jet2 says it will initially bring more than 125 jobs to the council-owned airport.




2

Meet the 20-year-old Young Ringer of the Year

“As a group of young people, we've kind of grown up and learned to ring together.”




2

Guernsey property prices up in third 2024 quarter

The increase compares with a decrease during the the same period in 2023.




2

Jersey house prices in biggest fall since 2002

The average home cost £581,000 at the end of September - down from £651,000 a year earlier.




2

Steam fair axed for 2025 after no buyer found

Organisers of the Great Dorset Steam Fair say it costs about £5m to run the event each year.




2

Driving champion, 20, eyes future success

Nicky Taylor has won the GB Clio Cup and wants to step up to the British Touring Cars Championship.




2

Apple to roll out ‘Battery Intelligence’ for iPhone, Amazon slashes price of 43inch Hisense smart TV to £228

The iPhone could finally show you how long it’ll take to finish charging. Code spotted in the second iOS 18.2 beta by 9to5Mac shows a new “BatteryIntelligence” feature that will let you […]

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Smart meters in north/south divide, Bitcoin breaks through $82,000 barrier

The way smart energy meters work in northern England and Scotland is causing issues for customers, BBC Panorama has been told. The body that represents energy companies, Energy UK, has […]

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Links for May 24th

CG Cinematography Archives – Chris Brejon A remarkable book – and resource – from Chris Brejon. All on lighting for CG animation, but as usual with this sort of reference, so much to say about cinematic lighting fullstop. (tags: animation 3d compositing lighting book reference cinematography ) R Luke Dubois on Joel Chadabe A deeply […]




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Links for May 24th

GitHub OCTO | Flat Data Github experimenting with a formalised approach for using Actions/repositories as datastores. Interesting to see their end-to-end approach, including, in particular, custom VS Code plugins for generating configurations; it's a neat and accessible way to build end-user UI. (tags: data git github tools storage patterns )




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Links for August 28th

Primož Roglič – Path to 2021 Tour de France Glory Wonderful writing from Kate Wagner, on Primož Roglič, and cycling, and the arcs of careers, and change. (tags: cycling primozroglic sport katewagner writing ) playing the believing game – by Sara Hendren – undefended / undefeated "… believing, Elbow says, is a separate muscle entirely, […]




2

One Year Late Review: On the songs of 2017

Today our comment and review media lurch from Hot Takes to History without pausing for a moment to get a sense of what actually happened. The concept of the One Year Later Review was that we might be able to get a better understanding of what mattered and what effects it had with a little […]



  • Radio & Music

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Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making

It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Apart published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. It must be one of the most vital and cited articles ever to be written about web design. In it John quoted the Tao Te Ching as a way of persuading us web designers to be like The Sage and “accept the ebb and flow of things”.

John compared the nature of print with the web:

The fact we can control a paper page is really a limitation of that medium. You can think – we can fix the size of text – or you can think – the size of text is unalterable. You can think – the dimensions of a page can be controlled – or – the dimensions of a page can’t be altered. These are simply facts of the medium.

And they aren’t necessarily good facts, especially for the reader.

We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility.

Those demands for flexibility led – 10 years later – to responsive web design as a best practice, and on to the present concept of fluid design.

However we’re currently battling against another regression. As John himself wrote recently, “having escaped the gravity well of web pages being ’print, only onscreen’, they became ’apps, only in the browser’”.

The better way of doing things will win out. Why? Because more people benefit from the accessible outcomes of fluid design, and it is coupled with a lower design and technical debt, even if the initial effort is higher. Meanwhile plus í§a change, plus c’est la míªme chose, or as the Lao Tse wrote 2,500 years ago “Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted. So ritual enthrals generation after generation.”

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2

Earthy earns maiden England U21 call-up

Bristol City midfielder George Earthy called up to the England Under-21 squad for the first time after a series of withdrawals due to either injury or transitions into the senior squad.




2

What's the future of the football league aged 120

The Bristol Downs League has been going for almost 120 years but how can they solidify its future?




2

A Mediocre Rundown of the 2019 Oscars

Well, the Oscars happened last night, and for the first time in 21 years I didn’t bother to watch. Pretty ironic given how many of these movies I ended up seeing and loving, but that’s neither here nor there. I did watch the video of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper musically fucking on stage while […]

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2

Luke Perry has Passed Away at Age 52

Beverly Hills 90210 was one of my favorite shows growing up. I mean, I was definitely a bit too young to be watching it, but my mom didn’t really seem to mind. I wanted to be Brenda Walsh or Kelly Taylor, and Brendan Walsh and Dylan McKay were like my sexual fucking awakening. All these […]

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London's 2024 Christmas Markets And Festive Fairs

Gifts, decorations and festive food.




2

Best Of Londonist: 28 October-3 November 2024

All our best articles from the past week.




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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 November 2024

The Lord Mayor's Show, firework displays and brand new exhibitions.