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2 days agoEleanor Lawson,Sarah JulianBBCA video of Nat Sweeney dancing before the concert has been retweeted by Nicki MinajA dance teacher has gone viral on social media after entertaining the crowd before a Nicki Minaj concert in Birmingham.Nat Sweeney from Moseley was waiting for the gig to start at Resorts World Arena on Sunday when he decided to launch into a series of acrobatic flips and splits.His improvisation quickly garnered the attention of the crowd and a video of Mr Sweeney, which has racked up thousands of views, has even been retweeted by Nicki Minaj herself.The 21-year-old, who is a…

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Labour would kickstart the creation of green energy projects across the country within months if elected, the party has said.The party plans to create a publicly owned company, Great British Energy.Party leader Sir Keir Starmer said investing in the production of domestic clean energy would cut bills.But the SNP said the project would “destroy Scottish jobs and investment”.Labour said Great British Energy would “turn the page on the cost of living crisis” by lowering energy bills.”The pain and misery of the cost of living crisis was directly caused by the Tories’ failure to make Britain resilient, leaving us at the…

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20 hours agoRachael McMenemy & Andy Collins,BBC News, HertfordshireChannel 4Mark O’Sullivan says the process of making the shows has been “life changing”A comedian who wrote a sitcom about his experiences of sexual abuse said the process was “cathartic” and “life changing”. Mark O’Sullivan, from Hitchin, wrote My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom and said the process was better than any therapy he had ever had. A documentary on Channel 4, with the same title, chronicles O’Sullivan’s work writing, directing and filming the 80s-style family sitcom.”If anyone watching it feels a bit more able to talk or less alone in what’s happened…

2 hours agoJonathan Amos,Science correspondent, @BBCAmosNASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Brant Robertson et alThe distant galaxy (circled) sits next to, but far behind, another galaxyThe James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy.Called JADES-GS-z14-0, the collection of stars was spied as it was a mere 290 million years after the Big Bang.Put another way – if the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, it means we’re observing the galaxy when the cosmos was only 2% of its current age.Webb used its huge 6.5m-wide primary mirror and sensitive infrared instruments to make the discovery.The telescope’s previous record holder…

2 hours agoKevin Peachey,Cost of living correspondentGetty ImagesA new IFS report suggests sluggish income growth since 2009 and lower working-age incomes than other major economiesLiving standards have been in the doldrums, a new report has suggested, with calls for any new government to help boost productivity.The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an independent think tank, said income growth had been slow for rich, poor, old and young.While events such as the pandemic and energy price rises had influenced the situation, the UK had fallen behind some other countries, it said.The IFS said the next government had a critical role in…

1 hour agoCarrie King,Technology ReporterDoctolibDoctolib says it covers almost all the French populationDoctolib is one of the French start-up scene’s great success stories.Founded in 2013 by Stanislas Niox-Chateau and his three co-founders, the software firm assists healthcare providers with administrative tasks, primarily appointment booking and management.Rather than having to contact practices directly, patients can use Doctolib to check availability and book medical appointments online. In a world where we book everything online, this might seem like a simple innovation, but in the slow, data-sensitive, bureaucratic healthcare industry, any software that can reliably simplify complexity and free up time is a…

40 minutes agoFergus Walsh,Medical editorBBCElliot Pfebve is taking part in the trialThousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease.Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad.It is designed to match patients with forthcoming trials using mRNA technology, as found in current Covid jabs.The vaccines are designed to prime the immune system to recognise and destroy any remaining cancer cells and reduce the risk of the disease recurring.Elliot Pfebve, 55, is the first patient to be treated with…

10 minutes agoAnnabel Rackham,Culture reporterRich Cain/NetflixEmily Carey as Harriet Manners with her love interest Nick Park, played by Liam WoodrumMany of us would love to play our favourite book character in a film or on TV – but Emily Carey has managed to live the dream.The 21-year-old is the star of teen drama Geek Girl, an adaptation of the book series of which she was a “huge fan” growing up.”I loved these books, I think I read the first one when I was about 10 or 11,” she tells the BBC.Carey plays Harriet Manners, a high-flying secondary school student who…