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Andrew Malins, who has been picking up litter in Newick for 10 years, discovered the bottles along an 80-metre section of Newick Lane up to the 30mph sign entering Mayfield on March 24. He said he found 18 vodka bottles dumped there – near to the spot where he collected 19 others just months earlier. 18 vodka bottles discovered at side of the road near Mayfield (Image: Andrew Malins) Mr Malins said: “On the 12th of November I posted the result of my litter pick at the Mayfield end of Newick Lane, which was 19 Vodka bottles. “A little more than…

Thursday 02 April 2026 7:00 am  |  Updated:  Wednesday 01 April 2026 11:38 am Middlesex are in dire financial straits ahead of the new English cricket season As the English cricket season begins again, the demise of Middlesex should be ringing alarms bells at fat cats Surrey and the ECB, writes Ed Warner.Of course the forecast is for biting winds across the country this weekend. What did you expect? The English cricket season starts tomorrow. Expect confected hoopla about The Hundred, its teams now under new ownership with some rebranded; an England team talking a big game under old leadership with tattered…

William Sword Ltd, a North Lanarkshire pastry company based in Cumbernauld, has transitioned to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), giving its 85 employees a direct stake in the future of the business. The company, founded in Airdrie in 1894 and run by the Sword family for four generations, supplies pastry products to butchers and pie-makers across Scotland and beyond. Douglas and David Sword, who have managed the business for more than 40 years, will step back into consultancy roles as part of the change. Historic North Lanarkshire family pastry-making business William Sword becomes employee-owned (Image: William Sword) Douglas said: “While…

The school – which is currently operating in a £2.7m deficit – has been accused of using gifts intended for some of their most disadvantaged pupils as promotional ‘prizes’06:30, 02 Apr 2026De La Salle College, Belfast(Image: Justin Kernoghan/Belfast Live)A West Belfast school is facing accusations it misappropriated donations of toys and electronics intended for 80 of the school’s most disadvantaged pupils – and used them for marketing purposes.De La Salle College is understood to have received toys and other items through the Cash for Kids Mission Christmas Appeal in the run up to Christmas 2025.The charity confirmed to Belfast Live…

Seamless and comprehensive gene-to-structure solutions in crystallography and structural biology to streamline workflows, reduce redundancy and expand service capabilities; extending expertise and experience to a broader range of biopharma and biotech companies worldwide. Post this The gene-to-structure workflow in protein X-ray crystallography and structure-based drug discovery involves three key stages: crystallization-grade protein production, protein crystallization, and structure determination by X-ray crystallography. These stages have varying levels of complexity depending on the scope of the project, including novel protein structures, protein-protein complexes, antibody-antigen complexes, iterative co-crystal structure determination of protein-ligand complexes, or fragment screening by crystallography. Under the collaboration, Accelero Biostructures…

Head coach Adam Hollioake has outlined how Kent plan to manage the workload of their seam bowling attack this summer.It’s an area of the squad Hollioake concedes they lack depth in as they prepare for a second successive season in County Championship Division 2.Kent head coach Adam Hollioake – has outlined how he plans to manage the workload of their bowling attack this summer. Photo: Stuart WatsonPopular seam bowler Matt Milnes has rejoined while South Africans Keith Dudgeon, Glenton Stuurman and Senuran Muthusamy, alongside Australian bowling all-rounder Tom Rogers, will play crucial roles with the ball as overseas players at…

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an autonomous system can identify a power distribution strategy that minimizes costs while keeping voltages stable.But while these AI-driven outputs may be technically optimal, are they fair? What if a low-cost power distribution strategy leaves disadvantaged neighborhoods more vulnerable to outages than higher-income areas?To help stakeholders quickly pinpoint potential ethical dilemmas before deployment, MIT researchers developed an automated evaluation method that balances the interplay between measurable outcomes, like cost or reliability, and qualitative or subjective values, such as fairness.   The system separates objective evaluations from user-defined…

Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth has set his team a points target as they look to finish the season on a positive note.With early promotion hopes gone, the Gills are aiming to build momentum in the final weeks of the campaign and climb away from the lower reaches of League Two.Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth has challenged his players to better last season’s points total Photo: Stuart WatsonAinsworth is just over a year into the job, having guided the side to a 17th-place finish last season with 58 points. Improving on that total remains a key objective.The Gills boss has outlined a…

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date. If you’re keeping score, Anthropic—the company founded to be ethical—is now turbocharging US strikes on Iran. On the lighter side, AI agents are now going viral online. OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw, a popular AI agent. Meta snapped up Moltbook, where AI agents seem to ponder their own existence and invent…

Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that Anthropic had, seemingly by accident, included access to the source code for the category-leading Claude Code command line application in a recent release. AI enthusiasts pored over the leaked code for clues about how Anthropic harnesses the LLM that underlies the application, sharing it on GitHub. Anthropic issued a takedown notice under U.S. digital copyright law asking GitHub to take down repositories containing the offending…