A teenage boy has sustained a “potentially life-threatening head injury” during an assault in Londonderry, according to the police. Officers found the 17-year-old lying unconscious on the ground after they were alerted to an altercation between two people on Butcher Street. The altercation was witnessed by city centre CCTV operators …
Read More »Teenage boys charged after youth pictured with machete in Edinburgh
Alan Simpson Armed police responded to the incident in Edinburgh on Friday Two teenage boys have been charged after reports of people carrying bladed weapons in Edinburgh city centre. Specialist firearms officers were called to Rose Street, at the junction of Hanover Street, on Friday afternoon. Images from the scene …
Read More »Scottish gossip: Amenda, Piroe, Gourna-Douath, Neil
Celtic are preparing a loan offer for Eintracht Frankfurt centre-back Aurele Amenda, with the 22-year-old Swiss keen to move on this month. (Sky Sports), external Lorient, Nice, Torino and Valencia have all been tracking Aurele Amenda, who is under contract with Eintracht Frankfurt until the summer of 2029. (Scottish Sun), …
Read More »Arrests after youth pictured with machete in central Edinburgh
Alan Simpson Photography A young man was photographed in Rose Street carrying what appeared to be a machete Two teenage boys have been arrested after police received reports of people carrying bladed weapons in Edinburgh city centre. A photo taken in Rose Street showed a young man walking with what …
Read More »Elderly man dies following single-vehicle crash
A man in his 90s has died following a single-vehicle crash in Armagh. The incident in the Hamiltonsbawn Road area was reported to police shortly after 19:30 GMT on Thursday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the driver of the car, a man in his 90s, was taken …
Read More »45 sick in salmonella outbreak tied to Super Greens powder
[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A nationwide outbreak of salmonella linked to Live It Up Super Greens diet supplement powder has sickened 45 people, federal authorities said Wednesday. Twelve of the 45 people were hospitalized for their illnesses, but no one has died in the outbreak, the Centers for Disease …
Read More »Hundreds of new homes given green light
Getty The new homes will be delivered in phases over a five to six-year period Planning permission has been granted for hundreds of new homes in County Antrim, following a council meeting on Thursday. The £70m investment will see 403 homes constructed north of Prince Andrew Way in Carrickfergus. The …
Read More »Asus says it’s dropping the RTX 5070 Ti as the memory shortage squeezes supply
On Thursday, Hardware Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, Asus “explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as such, they have placed the model into end-of-life status.” They added that the same applies to Asus’s 16GB RTX …
Read More »Michael Bretton charged with murder
A man has been charged with murder after the remains of another man were found in the Somerset countryside. Avon and Somerset Police officers had been searching for Craig Hurcombe, 40, after he was last seen in Gurney Slade at about 18:20 GMT on 1 January. Human remains believed to …
Read More »Winter Olympics: Canada skeleton chiefs cleared in qualifying row
In a statement, the organisation explained its Interim Integrity Unit “dismissed the complaints as the current IBSF rules and regulations did not give grounds for a breach of the international rules, the code of conduct, and respectively the code of ethics”. However, it “noted that the Canadian coach and the …
Read More »Spate of break-ins reported in the Highlands’ Great Glen
Police are investigating a series of thefts from properties along the Great Glen in the Highlands. Since December, there have been break-ins at Fort Augustus, Letterfinlay, Banavie and Drumnadrochit. Alcohol, money and jewellery have been stolen. Police said two men were seen acting suspiciously in the Fort Augustus area on …
Read More »Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers
Amazon’s data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that’s leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first customer for Nuton Technologies, which developed the “bioleaching” technology. AWS will also be providing “cloud-based data and analytics support,” …
Read More »Large fire breaks out in Dutch city of Utrecht following explosion
JEROEN JUMELET/EPA/Shutterstock The exact cause of the fire is not yet known A large fire has broken out following an explosion at a building in the Dutch city of Utrecht. At least four people were injured in the incident, which happened near Visscherssteeg, an alley in the city centre. The …
Read More »Fisherman dies on Spanish vessel off Irish coast
Ireland’s Department of Transport A fisherman has died and another has been seriously injured on board a Spanish fishing vessel, off the County Kerry coast. The alarm was raised after 09:00 local time after the Irish Coast Guard received a call from Spanish counterparts in Madrid to provide assistance to …
Read More »Ofsted inspecting Bristol school after MP visit postponement
A school is being inspected by Ofsted over concerns it may have been intimidated into cancelling a visit from a Jewish MP. Bristol Brunel Academy said it postponed a visit from Damien Egan in September due to student safeguarding issues over a pro-Palestine demonstration planned on the same day. Ofsted …
Read More »Insurer 1st Central approaches banks about £1bn-plus float | Money News
1st Central, a car and home insurer with more than 1.5 million active policies, is in talks with advisers about a potential London flotation. Sky News has learnt that 1st Central, which is run by former Hastings executive Michael Lee, is arranging a beauty parade of investment banks to take …
Read More »Verizon Outage Hits Around 175K Customers
Joseph Maldonado/CNET Verizon experienced an outage on Wednesday, with a reported 175,000 customers unable to use their devices. In a comment to CNET, Verizon confirmed the interruption, stating, “Verizon engineering teams are continuing to address today’s service interruptions. Our teams remain fully deployed and are focused on the issue. We understand …
Read More »Serial killer Steve Wright charged with murder of Victoria Hall in Suffolk
Brian Farmerat the Old Bailey, London Suffolk Police Steve Wright killed Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls, before dumping their bodies on the outskirts of Ipswich in 2006 Suffolk serial killer Steve Wright has been charged with murdering a 17-year-old girl more than 25 years …
Read More »WeatherTech founder might be the newest US consumer protection official
President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resistant car floor mats, in 1989, according to its website, and he owns 100 percent of the company. WeatherTech has made it a …
Read More »Reddit Outage on Tuesday: Here’s What’s Happening
If you’ve had trouble accessing the news and discussion forum Reddit on Tuesday, it’s not just you. At 9:30 a.m. PT, Reddit’s status monitoring page, RedditStatus.com, said that the company was “investigating elevated errors across reddit.com and native apps.” RedditStatus.com reported degraded site performance for both desktop web use and native …
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