Getty Images A string of demonstrations have been held outside The Bell Hotel in Epping this summer, including this protest in early August Some councils say they are still pursuing legal action to stop asylum seekers from being housed in hotels in their areas, despite a Court of Appeal ruling. The court on Friday overturned…

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Britain’s Cameron Norrie became the final British singles player to fall at the US Open as 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic battled through injury to reach the fourth round. Norrie, 30, has now lost all seven of his meetings with the 38-year-old Serb following a 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 6-3 defeat in New York.…

Dominic Robinson/ Rick Aryton / SWNS A group of divers have explored the wreckage of a First World War-era Royal Navy submarine 100 years after it sank. Professional shipwreck diver and YouTuber Dominic Robinson and a team of 10 dived down to check out the century-old M1 sub 20 miles off the coast of Plymouth…

At least 69 people have died and many more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania, coastguards in the north-west African country have said. Seventeen people have been rescued and a search is continuing for other passengers who were aboard the dugout canoe that was heading towards Spain’s Canary Islands. According…

MIT’s robot bee – released by the researchers In 2021, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tried to build a robot pollinator based on the anatomy of bees. Bees’ flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported 8 wings and 4 bodies. Now, a…

Metro leads with the news that a chickenpox vaccine is going to be given to children as part of routine GP appointments from next year. The paper notes that no childhood vaccine in the England is currently hitting its 95% uptake target, reporting that the chickenpox vaccine both helps prevent children developing severe symptoms and…

The Brunel Solar team from the Netherlands celebrates victory in Adelaide – credit, Charlie Bliss, Tim Hanley, Riley Williams, Julian Modra, Michael Hurren & Reece Calvert from Swift Hound. At the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, innovators and motorsport experts competed to race solar-powered cars 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. Reminiscent of the 24 Hours…

A Metropolitan Police volunteer officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child. James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old. The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a…

Ed Jackson (right) stands atop the summit of Tien Shan – credit SWNS A retired rugby star turned quadriplegic has made an unbelievable recovery from a broken neck to reach the peak of a previously unclimbed mountain in Asia. Ed Jackson became the first person to successfully ascend the unnamed, 15,485-foot-high peak in the Tien…