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Galileo sat-nav system experiences service outageEurope's satellite-navigation system, Galileo, has suffered a major outage.The network has been offline since Friday due to what has been described as a "technical incident related to its ground infrastructure".The problem means all receivers, such as the latest smartphone models, will not be picking up any useable timing or positional information.These devices will be relying instead on the data coming from the American Global Positioning System (GPS).Depending on the sat-nav chip they have installed, cell phones and other devices might also be making connections with the Russian (Glonass) and Chinese (Beidou) networks.
Dozens of lambs and sheep stolen or ‘slaughtered’ and left in fields for farmers to find‘For farmers to find their animals have been killed and butchered like this is not only very upsetting, it also has financial repercussions’Farmers have been warned to keep an eye on their livestock after at least 45 lambs and sheep were “professionally slaughtered” in fields within the space of a week.In the last week there have been four brutal attacks on livestock across Northamptonshire, all within 30 miles of one another.Many of the animals were killed and stolen, but several carcasses were left for farmers to discover.
Meerkats spotted running around Essex seafront after man breaks into Southend wildlife centreIt took a team of employees, police officers, PCSOs and RSPCA representatives to return the animals
Former Greek finance minister Varoufakis in fracas with French police officer at Paris airportYanis Varoufakis claimed the officer pushed him, grabbed his passport and told him to stand against the wall.GREEK ECONOMIST AND former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has accused French police of “violent” behaviour over a passport check at Paris’ main airport.
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Diving instructor, 19, whose mother was Princess Diana's lady-in-waiting, drowned at Greek holiday resortThe teenage son of Princess Diana’s lady-in-waiting drowned attempting a ‘free dive’ on a Greek holiday resort, an inquest has heard.Henry Byatt, known as Harry, was a scuba diving instructor at the exclusive Peligoni Club on the island of Zakynthos when he died in August 2017.The 19-year-old’s mother, Alexandra, was a childhood friend of Diana and acted as her lady-in-waiting from 1991 until 1997.
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