A Colden Common craft fair is scheduled for Feb 7 with four class choices and tickets at £30, and Twyford Surgery is undergoing clinical-room refurbishments with no confirmed finish date.
A traveller visited the UNESCO-recognised Baptism Site (Bethany Beyond the Jordan) in October 2025 and felt a brief reconnection with grandparents who had visited in 1982. The article reports that Jordan is promoting faith-based tourism and aims to grow the sector to about $700m by 2035.
A celebration of life for Stoke City supporters who died in 2025 will take place at Stoke Minster on Saturday ahead of the club's first home league game of the year; family and friends can light candles and images of the deceased will be shown at the stadium before kick-off.
California Governor Gavin Newsom briefly agreed with a podcast guest disputing his office's 'STATE. SPONSORED. TERRORISM.' post about ICE, and his communications team later denied he had changed his position.
Water supplies have been restored to the majority of homes in Kent and Sussex after outages linked to Storm Goretti, though around 320 properties remain affected and bottled water sites are open; Ofwat has launched an investigation into South East Water's response.
Some major drugmakers are using the FDA Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program while other leading companies are hesitating over potential legal and safety risks; the program allows the FDA commissioner to issue approval decisions in one to two months for a limited set of drugs.
Iran imposed a near-total internet blackout during recent protests, and experts report authorities attempted GPS jamming that disrupted some Starlink satellite connections.
South East Water says supplies are restored for most properties after outages that affected about 30,000 homes; regulators have opened multiple investigations and statutory compensation rules apply.
MP Terry Jermy toured Swaffham with local and national partners to view completed and ongoing heritage restorations, and attendees identified further projects including the Market Cross Café, the Break Charity Shop and the Town Pound for the next phase of investment.
Some studies have reported microplastics in human tissues and possible links to health, while analytical chemists have raised methodological concerns about contamination and misidentification; researchers are calling for interlaboratory studies and international, multidisciplinary collaboration to improve methods and reduce uncertainty.
