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An ex-zookeeper who broke into his former work place and stole two penguins which he sold on Facebook for £9,000 has been jailed. Bradley Tomes, from Hesketh Bank, Preston, carried out two separate nighttime raids at the South Lakes Safari Zoo, near Barrow-in-Furness, in July and October 2018. He cut a hole in the zoo’s […]
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Gegard Mousasi is again the Bellator middleweight champion after a solid, if unspectacular, win over welterweight champion Douglas Lima. Mousasi took home scorecards of 48-47 and 49-46 twice for a patient attack that saw him pressure Lima early and take the fight to the ground at key moments. The multi-promotion champ reclaimed the title he […]
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A Southampton-developed healthcare app that helps people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) manage their condition can speed up recovery after hospital admission and reduce flare-ups of symptoms, a newly published study has shown. COPD is a common respiratory condition and one of the top causes of hospital admissions each year, particularly during winter months. […]
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Apple Inc AAPL.O on Monday announced a special event for Nov. 10 but gave no further details aside from a tag line of “one more thing.” Apple last month announced a range of new iPhones and also announced new Apple Watches and a services bundle in September. The company in June said it would introduce […]
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Apple warns that the MagSafe can generate excess heat. As a failsafe, iOS will limit charging to 80 percent if the phone gets too warm (this works for any charger). It says that this will “extend the lifespan of your battery,” but comes at the cost of longer charge times. Apple says you can avoid […]
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The two teenage cousins killed in a parasailing tragedy on Greek island Rhodes that left a third child critically injured have been pictured. Witnesses say the mum of one of two Brit teens who died in a parasailing tragedy on holiday in Greece fainted as her surviving son was rushed to hospital. She is said […]
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Former Bellator, Strikeforce and DREAM welterweight Marius Zaromskis has finally set his debut at KSW 56 for a fight against Andrzej Grzebyk on Nov. 14 in Lodz, Poland. Promotion officials confirmed the matchup to MMA Fighting on Friday. Zaromskis (21-9, 1 NC) was originally slated to make his first KSW appearance back in March, but […]
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Parisians fleeing for the countryside jammed the roads ahead of France’s lockdown to slow the spread of resurgent coronavirus infections, and there was only a sprinkling of people hurrying along city sidewalks Friday as the nationwide restrictions went into effect. Dystopian images of logjams that stretched for 435 miles (700 kilometers) at one point Thursday […]
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Britain’s defence ministry will take back direct control of the operation and development of the country’s nuclear weapons from a consortium of Lockheed Martin, Serco and Jacobs Engineering in June 2021, it said on Monday. Operation of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, which maintains the warheads for the Trident submarine-based nuclear deterrent, was awarded to the […]
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Earlier this month, SpaceX announced it had successfully launched an additional 60 satellites, bringing the Starlink constellation total to over 700. The company thinks that’s enough to conduct a public beta test of its program to deliver sub-20 ms latency broadband to rural areas around the world. Last night, the company reached out via email […]
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