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The UK economy grew 0.1% in August, defying forecasts of a slight contraction, the ONS figures show. Chancellor John Healey is promising relief on business costs in a Budget two weeks away, on the condition that it is paid for inside that Budget.
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Rockstar's new GTA VI launch trailer again confirms 19 November as the release date after two delays, the BBC reports. Planners can work to that date, and the dated steps Rockstar has attached to it are a better test of whether it holds.
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BBC lawyers asked a Florida federal judge to compel Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10bn suit, saying he cancelled the agreed 16 October date. A January sitting would fall after discovery closes, so the court must move either the date or the deadline.
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Hill Top Farm in the Yorkshire Dales had 45 lambing ewes this spring, down from a peak of over 800, the BBC reported. National sheep numbers are falling too, though one farm cannot say how many other hill farms have made the same move.
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Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah proposed a Himalayan climate mechanism joining India and China, whose disputed frontier runs roughly 3,500 km. Neither has formally responded, and Himalayan temperatures are rising faster than the global average.
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A longtime Democratic senator is drafting curbs on US data centres, his adviser told the BBC, as Data Center Watch counts 833 opposition groups. For operators planning new AI capacity, the risk this year is political pressure on local approvals; what the bill would require has not been reported.
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US annual inflation rose to 3.7% in September from 3.4% in August, above forecasts, the BBC reported from official figures. Energy drove the increase and core inflation was 2.6%, so fuel and heating budgets have a firmer case for revision than general costs do.
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Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow's chief executive, has asked the government to state its position on a third runway estimated to cost £33bn. Prime Minister Andy Burnham declined to say whether he backs it. The BBC reported that Woldbye's remarks suggest a decision in the new year.
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Heating oil costs 111p a litre, about 85% above its level before the Iran war began in March, according to Boiler Juice. The BBC reports the market is unregulated, so global moves reach roughly 1.5 million off-grid people quickly.
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Nebraska ranchers who voted for Trump object to his 300,000-metric-ton duty-free beef import as steel and diesel costs rise, the BBC reported. The cost squeeze is documented in dollars, while the case for a political break rests on two interviews.
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Surrey County Council says about 885,000 trees were planted across the county between 2021 and 2026, beating its 600,000 target by roughly 285,000. Elmbridge Borough Council says many trees in the borough die within a year, and it wants survival counted.
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Hurricane Isaias, the first of the 2026 Atlantic season, is heading for a Friday-night landfall on the northern US Gulf Coast. Evacuated rigs had taken about 63% of Gulf oil output offline by Thursday, AFP reported, in a season a strong El Niño has held back.
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Environment Agency contractors spent 15 months and £15m of public money removing nearly 40,000 tonnes of illegal waste from Hoads Wood in Kent. Campaigners now fear dumpers will return, and they still dispute how quickly the regulator acted when the tipping began in 2023.
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BBC staff told director general Matt Brittin that the plan to cut up to 2,000 jobs is landing on junior 'doers' while senior ranks are spared. Each round of announcements still to come reopens that argument until the BBC shows how the cuts divide between grades.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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Extending Whisper subtitle cues into the next pause cut the count over 17 characters per second from 47 to 20 in a dev.to test on one 168-second clip. The result argues for fixing timestamps before trimming words, wherever the speaker leaves silence to borrow.
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Andy Burnham used his first UN General Assembly address to claim the AI rulebook for Britain's 2027 G20 presidency, a pitch the UK's own digital standards strategy files under trade, market access and growth.
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The National Centre for Information Defence is meant to detect, attribute and disrupt foreign information attacks. The evidence Burnham cited includes Russian forgery of the branding of 28 British organisations.
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Researchers raised wasp spiders from opposite ends of Europe under identical lab conditions to ask whether the species' northward spread involves evolution and not only warmer weather, as British sightings arrive further north.
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The ASA ruled against ads for AI companion and video tools running on Meta platforms, including one it found portrayed a character under 18 sexually. None of the advertisers answered its enquiries, and Meta had already pulled the ads.
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