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Four fire crews have remained at the scene of a large blaze at a recycling centre.

Firefighters were called to the site at Hovefields Avenue in Basildon, Essex, overnight to tackle the fire, which had spread across warehouses and 15 vehicles.

Essex Fire and Rescue Service said it expected to stay at the scene throughout the weekend and were using a digger to break up recycling material in order to fully extinguish the fire.

The headteachers of the three girls killed in the Southport stabbings have attended a full council meeting where a one-minute silence was held.

Councillors came together to reflect on the tragic events on 29 July, when Alice da Silva Aguiar, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King died in a knife attack during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

The extraordinary meeting heard how the town had struggled to come to terms with the tragic events of 29 July.

The book - Becoming a Scientist - is aimed at young adult readers and was written by the University of Cambridge's Prof Adrian Liston, and illustrated by Yulia Lapko - a business administrator for the pathology department.

Both their routes could be deemed unconventional as Prof Liston was expected to join his truck-driving family's business in Australia, while Ms Lapko fled her native Ukraine in 2022 following invasion.

Prof Liston said as a youngster he did not even know what a scientist was, and hoped the stories showed the "many different pathways".

For nearly a century, people around the globe have celebrated World Animal Day. Launched in 1925, the annual event on 4 October is designed to raise awareness of animal rights issues and help improve the treatment and wellbeing of wildlife. Today, the international effort includes more than 90 ambassadors in 70 countries, and in recent decades, travel has increasingly played a pivotal role in wildlife conservation.

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed.

A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West Africa creating a large crater during the same era.

It would have been a “catastrophic event”, the scientists say, causing a tsunami at least 800m high to tear across the Atlantic ocean.

Dr Uisdean Nicholson from Heriot-Watt University first found the Nadir crater in 2022, but a cloud of uncertainty hung over how it was really formed.

The convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were jailed more than three decades ago for the murder of their parents in the US, are set to be reviewed.

The brothers shot Jose and Kitty Menendez at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, in what prosecutors said was a plot to inherit their father's fortune.

On Thursday, LA County district attorney George Gascon said there was "a moral and an ethical obligation" to review evidence submitted by the brothers last year, which claimed they were sexually abused by their father and acted in self-defence.