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George KingBBC News, SuffolkGeorge King/BBCBecky Mather, 40, said being able to afford school uniform for her children was a struggleFor parents across Suffolk and further afield, buying school uniforms can prove pricey – setting them back hundreds of pounds per child.Add in a recent increase in inflation, and the cost of kitting out the kids has become increasingly unaffordable for some families.Some parents use school uniform banks where they can pick up everything from blazers, trousers and ties to clean underwear and shoes for free.It is a service that can make a huge difference – but, as some parents at…

When you think about photo editing software, the first thing that comes to mind is Adobe. Adobe software is often considered the gold standard when it comes to creative applications, but it is not the only software developer that specializes in photo editing. Whether you are looking for a solution to streamline your workflow, to batch edit a full set of wedding images, or you want something that can add a creative and artistic flair to your photography, there is a photo editing suite out there for you. Some of my top picks include Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo 2.Get more…

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And it is time now for science news roundup from Short Wave. That is NPR’s science podcast. I am joined this week by Emily Kwong. Hi there.EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: Hi.KELLY: And Hannah Chinn – hey to you in our New York bureau.HANNAH CHINN, BYLINE: Hello. Hello.KELLY: Y’all have brought us three science stories that caught your attention this week. Lay them on me.CHINN: All right, we have the microbes behind great-tasting chocolate.KWONG: How birds at sea defecate way more than scientists thought.CHINN: And the molecules that might be responsible for your daytime sleepiness.KELLY: I am here…

Brent Hinds, the founding member and former lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle crash.The 51-year-old, who left the Grammy-winning band earlier this year, died in a collision in Atlanta, Georgia.Police told US media outlets he died on Wednesday after his Harley-Davidson collided with a BMW SUV whose driver did not give way while making a turn. A local medical examiner’s office later confirmed his death.In a statement posted on social media, Mastodon said they were in a “state of unfathomable sadness and grief”.”We are heartbroken, shocked, and still trying to process the loss…

Manchester City defender Ruben Dias has signed a two-year contract extension. The 28-year-old’s previous deal had been set to expire in 2027 but his new deal will take him to 2029, with the option of a further 12 months. The Portugal international joined City from Benfica for a fee of £65m in 2020 and was named Premier League player of the year at the end of his first season.The defender has helped City to four league titles, the Champions League, the EFL Cup and the FA Cup during his five years at Etihad Stadium. “I am incredibly happy today,” said…

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an artificial intelligence model to think on its own for hours so that it was capable of writing math proofs. Their goal wasn’t simply to create an AI that could do complex math but one that could evaluate ambiguity and nuance—skills AIs will need if they are to someday take on many challenging real-world tasks. In fact, these are precisely the skills required to create artificial general intelligence,…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

President Trump tours “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP MIAMI — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ injunction formalized a temporary halt she had ordered two weeks ago as witnesses continued to testify in a multiday hearing to determine whether…

Some of the US’s lowest-paying large firms increased their CEOs’ compensation by an average of almost 35% over five years, according to new research. Their workers’ salaries did not keep up.As executive remuneration ballooned, the average CEO-to-worker pay gap across the 100 companies in the S&P 500 with lowest median worker pay – dubbed the Low-Wage 100 by the Institute for Policy Studies – widened by 12.9% between 2019 and 2024, from 560 to 1 to 632 to 1.“Median pay increased only modestly, whereas CEO pay really skyrocketed,” said Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute…

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor. It is a grand total of one paragraph, and can be distilled down to a single sentence: “If the District Court had jurisdiction to vacate the directives, it also had jurisdiction to vacate the ‘Resulting Grant Terminations.’” Jackson, however, chose to write a separate and far more detailed argument against the decision, mostly focusing on the fact that it’s not simply a matter of abstract law; it has real-world consequences. She notes that existing law prevents…