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Dawn LimbuWest of England Wiltshire Police Ashton McCabe was given a police bravery award for his actions A teenager has won a bravery award for saving the life of a man who had been stabbed in the neck. Ashton McCabe, then aged 17, used first aid to treat the victim’s …

A device left at a residential property in Londonderry was viable and “posed a serious risk to the local community,” police have said. Cordons were put in place around Campion Court in the Waterside on Saturday evening after the device was reported at about 17:35 BST. Residents had been given …

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 103, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry everything’s so expensive this week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about gooning and …

A woman whose elderly mother was helped by binmen after a fall said their kindness has “restored my faith in human beings”. Jaki Jones rushed out to ask for their help when she was unable to get her 92-year-old mother Maureen off the floor at her parents’ home in Hyde, …

For many, there’s nothing better than greeting the day with a steaming cup of coffee, and then having another whenever they hit a slump. However, there’s such a thing as too much coffee. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the daily recommendation for most adults is 400 …

The battery in the iPhone 17 Pro Max is physically larger, leading CNET managing editor Patrick Holland to say in his review that it delivers “the best battery life of any phone that CNET has ever tested.” But more power cells aren’t the only contributing factor, and longer battery life …

Faarea MasudBusiness reporter BBC Pizza Hut was once a go-to for families and friends to tuck into its all-you-can eat buffet, unlimited salad bar, and self-serve ice-cream with all the toppings. But fewer diners are “hitting the Hut” these days and it is closing half its UK restaurants after being …

Known for MTV stunt show Dirty Sanchez, Welsh skateboarder Mathew Pritchard says drink and drugs “were fun to him” – until they weren’t Warning: this article refers to drugs and drug taking throughout From wrestling in nettles to being shot at point blank range wearing nothing but a bulletproof vest …

Despite a bright start, Motherwell found themselves a goal down at the break following Jeremy Bokila’s converted spot kick. The visitors hit a leveller 15 minutes into the second half, also from the spot, thanks to Apostolos Stamatelopoulos. Despite numerous chances and a disallowed goal, it looked as though Askou’s …

There are many key factors we look at when helping you decide on a Dyson vacuum. Here are some of the ones we use to weigh scoring. Vacuum type: Corded vs. cordless vs. robot vacuum Shark offers a range of vacuums to suit different cleaning needs, each with distinct advantages. …

Four days into the government shutdown, Jack Criss, an air traffic control specialist at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, assumed a second role — driving for DoorDash. “My financial obligations were mounting. I wanted to get ahead of the situation. The writing was on the wall,” Criss told NBC …

When you imagine what’s inside your body, you likely picture your heart, brain and other essential organs — not pieces of plastic. However, plastic in the human body has become increasingly common. It’s been estimated that Americans consume 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles each year, through the food we eat, the …

Jonny HumphriesNorth West Handout Beth Ashton (right) pictured with her mother Natalie Tolan, was in constant, crippling pain due to the effects of ketamine addiction on her bladder The mother of a young woman who spent months in excruciating pain before her death has issued an urgent warning about the …

Sarah Spina-Matthews,North East and Cumbria and Amy Oakden,BBC Radio Tees Supplied Middlesbrough actor Carl Wilson-Downie (left) was an extra in Gladiator II, directed by Sir Ridley Scott, who himself grew up in Teesside An actor and producer has spoken about his experiences of working alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, …

Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind the mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, according to posts from staffers on LinkedIn. Netflix acquired Boss Fight in March 2022, with an executive saying at the time that the studio’s “extensive experience building hit games across genres will help accelerate …

Halo Studios has created something special for the 25th anniversary of Halo next year. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a full remake of the original Combat Evolved that launched alongside Microsoft’s first Xbox console in 2001. It has a fully rebuilt campaign with 4K visuals, new weapons and vehicles, a four-player …

I use a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 every single week to help film Today I’m Toying With, and I love it to pieces. The baby steadicam’s one of the most popular gadgets the company’s ever sold, because it’s so good at automatically capturing stabilized video of whatever I want, far …

Getty Images When US officials unveiled two staggering illegal sports betting investigations on Thursday, they described the operations as something “reminiscent of a Hollywood movie”. One of the schemes, which allegedly involved NBA figures, specialised contact lenses, marked cards, an x-ray table and $7m (£5.2m) in losses, led to the …

Outlook users have only just got over the webification of Microsoft’s email client in recent years, and already there are major changes on the horizon. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me that the company recently reorganized its Outlook team under new leadership with a focus on rebuilding the email …

It would be an understatement to say that the Earth’s magnetic field is important. It’s one of the reasons we’re able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous aurora borealis. So it’s a pretty big deal when it changes — and such …