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  • Palantir AI probe leads to Met Police volunteer chief’s dismissal

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/94a5/live/6eb9b460-c483-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] LinkedIn Special chief officer James Deller’s actions were “an abuse of trust”, the Met Police said The Metropolitan Police has fired the head of its Special Constabulary after Palantir’s AI monitoring uncovered that he had used his work phone to copy intimate images of a woman. Special chief officer James Deller, who…

  • Manx youth music and dance workshop Bree celebrates 20 years

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d7f0/live/4bd63540-c2fd-11f1-b8c6-6d610e41a5d9.png”] Culture Vannin Youth club Bree aims to give young people “a fun introduction” to Manx music and dance For 20 years, youth club Bree has been bringing young people together on the Isle of Man “so they meet each other and start making new friendships and new bands”, says founder Dr Chloë…

  • ‘Gateshead reading group helped me brave the outdoors’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/474b/live/023cea90-c268-11f1-b278-615cdfb74f16.jpg”] BBC Ian Kirby says reading has turned his life around A man who did not leave home for 18 months other than for his mother’s funeral has said an outdoor book group turned his life around. Ian Kirby was attacked by an intruder in his home in October 2019, which left him…

  • Fighting hard-to-find Lake District wildfires ‘challenging’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/acff/live/de5b3100-c270-11f1-b278-615cdfb74f16.png”] Sedbergh Wildfire Team A wildfire between High Newton and Newby Bridge in March 2022 spread for nearly half a mile Locating wildfires reported by visitors in remote parts of the Lake District is hampered by their unfamiliarity with the landscape, the area’s fire service has warned. Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)…

  • Mount Batten asbestos mystery leaves beloved Plymouth beach shut

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7471/live/892f0750-c31b-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] BBC Mount Batten Beach was fenced off in July For more than six years, asbestos has been washing up with the tide, turning one of Plymouth’s handful of swimming spots into the centre of a growing environmental mystery. Mount Batten Beach has been fenced off since the summer, and access restricted to…

  • Same-sex pairing is important, Birmingham-born Strictly star says

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/dc46/live/70026340-c3ce-11f1-8fc5-335d62f6730b.png”] PA Media Bethany Antonia said joining the show in a same-sex pairing highlights representation. Actress Bethany Antonia has spoken about the importance of representation after she was placed in a same-sex pairing with a professional dancer in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. The Birmingham-born star, who began her television career playing Jada…

  • Forever chemicals at former Oxfordshire fuel depot ‘have been removed’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0fb1/live/d3d8ec30-be61-11f1-b36c-81ad410b221e.jpg”] BBC The barrels of fire fighting foam liquid were manufactured in 1988 and stored at RAF Islip Barrels of chemicals left at an approved development site have been removed and testing carried out, a developer has said. The Islip Fuel Depot in Oxfordshire is a former RAF and Esso fuel storage and…

  • Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago – why are they resuming now?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ca0b/live/df708420-c48a-11f1-a915-a1cdb09cbaf6.jpg”] Getty Images An estimated crowd of 20,000 gathered in Kentucky in 1936 for the public hanging of Rainey Bethea They came in their thousands from near and far. Men, women and children lined up on a Kentucky riverfront for the public hanging of a black man convicted of raping and killing an…

  • Queen reflects on reading ‘forbidden’ Lady Chatterley’s Lover under the pillow

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a517/live/ae8422f0-c402-11f1-9a39-31b474234113.jpg”] “It’s like the best tonic in the world”: Queen Camilla on why she loves to read Queen Camilla has recalled secretly reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the passionate and controversial novel by DH Lawrence, as a teenager in the 1960s. “As teenagers you read a lot of romances. It was the moment of…

  • Nord Stream trial: How German police followed the evidence – to Ukraine

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7ccd/live/ae98a210-c412-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Swedish Coast Guard Three of the four Nord Stream pipelines were ruptured by explosions in September 2022 Serhii K appeared relaxed as he checked in to the glamping resort near Italy’s Adriatic coast with his wife and young children. Dressed in shorts, sandals and a dark baseball cap, the former Ukrainian Special…