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A 27-year-old Tennessee diesel mechanic wanted to farm full-time; solar sites gave his sheep 400+ acres to graze, letting him quit his job and build a 300-ewe flock

A 27-year-old Tennessee diesel mechanic has left his job to become a full-time livestock farmer after gaining grazing access to more than 400 acres of utility-scale solar farms. The arrangement, made through vegetation management contracts at solar sites, allowed the young farmer to expand his flock to more than 300 breeding ewes without having to…

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Thames Valley Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside abandoned BHS store in Slough with 1,700 plants and potential 150kg yield; two men jailed for 14 months

Police uncover £1.3 million cannabis factory inside former BHS store in Slough. (Photo: Thames Valley Police) Two men have been jailed after police uncovered a cannabis factory containing more than 1,700 plants inside a former BHS store in Slough, with the crop estimated to have a potential street value of nearly £1.3 million.According to details…

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49 days before 9/11, a businessman took Twin Towers’ lease; 25 years later, the rebuilding nears end

South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsing after the twin towers were hit by hijacked planes Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, the redevelopment of the 16-acre site has entered its final commercial phase, with construction now under way on 2 World Trade Center, the last…

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Trump’s ‘deepest, darkest China’ gets a Brics sequel with Iran’s cameo as India walks tightrope | India News

PM Modi, Pezeshkian & Putin at Brics Summit 2026 (left); PM Modi, Xi and Putin at SCO summit in 2025 (right) What could be a fresh diplomatic headache for Donald Trump? A picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding hands with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, with Russian President Vladimir Putin standing alongside them at the…

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Shashi Tharoor answers Chidambaram’s questions on Brics benefits for India; BJP takes digs | India News

NEW DELHI: Shashi Tharoor not being in sync with his Congress colleagues is no longer news. Especially, if the issue in question pertains to the global stage. So, when senior Congress leader Chidambaram questioned the benefits of Brics for India, Tharoor had an answer. As expected, the answer triggered another round of Tharoor vs Congress…

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About 4,000 years ago, builders hauled 25-tonne stones 11 miles across northern England to create the ‘Devil’s Arrows’, Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row

Pic credit: University of York The Devil’s Arrows, Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row, have long raised questions about where they came from and how they reached Boroughbridge. It turns out that ancient Neolithic builders hauled these enormous 25-tonne structures across at least 11 miles to get there.Researchers at the University of York and Curtin…

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California officers found 194 abandoned Dungeness crab traps off two rivers; violations wasted hundreds of crabs and brought four-year permit suspensions

Two commercial fishermen have had their licences suspended and vessel permits revoked for four years after wildlife officers recovered 194 abandoned Dungeness crab traps from waters off the Del Norte County coast. The enforcement action, finalised during an August meeting of the California Fish and Game Commission, involved 66-year-old Darryl Donovan of Gilroy and 60-year-old…

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