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Most people received the blaring alert at 19:00 BST on Friday – and it came as a surprise given the government had not told people it was coming, as it has done for tests of the system.The notification, which cautioned against the use of disposable barbecues, naked flames or fireworks, was the biggest use yet of the emergency alert system and Prime Minister Andy Burnham urged the public to take it “seriously”.A Cabinet Office press release, posted to their website at about 18:45 on Friday, was missed by many in the media, which meant there was little warning to the…

Mark Selby claimed his fourth China Open title with a 10-6 victory over Noppon Saengkham in Taiyuan.Four-time world champion Selby, 43, has now won 26 ranking events and this success lifts him up from ninth to fifth in the world rankings. “I’m happy to be standing here as champion, I played some good stuff all week, somewhere near close to my best,” said Selby.The Englishman, who was appearing in first ranking final in China for eight years, had trailed 4-2 early in the contest despite compiling a wonderful 138 break in the third frame.However, he took the final two frames…

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No 10: Full Confidence is not the only game based around Westminster’s wheeling and dealing.Fantasy Parliament, external is a browser-based game designed by another UK-based developer, Evan Roberts, which lets players draft their own fantasy league of real-world MPs, scoring points based on their real-life media coverage.With the strategy game’s Policy Tester, players can even type in proposals to a ChatGPT-style AI model, which then replies in the style of how it believes different groups of voters – such as Coastal Keith or Graduate Gemma – would react.Meanwhile, UK Politics Simulator, “built on real UK data down to ward level”,…

A pipe band from Canada has been crowned World Pipe Band champions – the first time in 16 years that a band outside the UK has taken the honour.The Simon Fraser University pipe band won the coveted title following the two-day event at Glasgow Green. The Field Marshal Montgomery pipe band from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, was runner-up, with the Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia band, coming third.A total of 211 bands from 14 countries, including youth bands, took part in the “truly thrilling and fiercely contested competition”.

O’Connor will take a couple of weeks now to “chill” and “not speak about athletics” before reflecting and evaluating 2026 with dad and coach Michael, as they plan ahead for what will hopefully be an exciting couple of years.However, in amongst all the excitement of her big wins this summer was the family sadness of the passing of her grandmother Madeleine to who she dedicated the European gold medal.”My granny was one of my biggest supporters and, like, every medal that I would win, she was completely over the moon every single time,” explained O’Connor.”She would always make jokes that…

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