MP for Tewkesbury understood to have been arrested by Gloucestershire police on Wednesday night

A Liberal Democrat MP has had the whip suspended pending the outcome of a police investigation, a party spokesperson said.

Cameron Thomas was arrested by Gloucestershire police on Wednesday night, it is understood. His office has been contacted for comment.

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• York Revolution were celebrating Pride Night

• MLB players have also pushed back on Pride

A professional baseball team has chosen to forfeit a game after some of its players refused to participate in the club’s Pride Night.

York Revolution had arranged for players to wear uniforms with rainbow sleeves during their game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Thursday as part of the team’s 11th annual Pride Night. However, the Revolution said several players had refused to wear the jerseys and the club cancelled the game. The team instead made the night “a free and fun celebration of recognition and inclusion”.

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US defence secretary addresses allies in latest attempt to get Europe to raise military budgets

Pete Hegseth has announced a review of the US military presence across Europe, in a combative address to Nato allies where he threatened to cut force numbers in countries spending the least on defence.

The US defence secretary, speaking at a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, accused some countries of “free riding” and others of being shameful for not allowing their airbases to be used by US jets bombing Iran in the spring.

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You can’t complain Intertek’s £10bn takeover happened – the problem is the lack of arrivals in the other direction

It would be a stretch to describe the £10bn-ish takeover of Intertek as a landmark event for the London stock market or the FTSE 100 index.

This is not an Arm Holdings moment – the purchase of that Cambridge chip designer by Japan’s SoftBank in 2016 provoked long (and continuing) agonising over the lack of whizzy tech stocks on the London market.

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Het hitteplan van het RIVM geldt sinds donderdag voor heel Nederland. Vooral 75-plussers, daklozen, mensen in sociaal isolement en (zeer) jonge kinderen moeten oppassen voor vermoeidheid, uitdroging of een hitteberoerte door het warme weer. „Je staat met je rug tegen de muur.”

A San Francisco startup best known for its AI-generation software is making a bizarre leap into medical imaging, and trying to says it hopes draw curiosity-seekers into its new spa to get scanned. On Wednesday, Midjourney announced the establishment of Midjourney Medical, which it admitted was a bit out of left field. To promote the tech, it claims to be opening a spa in San Francisco where guests will be able to step “into a shallow pool of golden light,” before being lowered into a tank where ultrasound sensors bombard their bodies in order to take a scan that AI pieces together into MRI-like images. This sounds like the plot of a cheap sci-fi movie, but there is some real science behind it. “As you descend into the water, hundreds of thousands of tiny elements take turns, sending out waves, listening together, compressing and then streaming data to a massive cluster where thousands of computers split the task,” Midjourney explained in the announcement. “By looking at how the shapes of all the waves change, we reconstruct a detailed map or ‘image’ which basically lets us figure out what’s in there.” That “basically” isn’t exactly reassuring when Midjourney says it wants to have 50,000 or more of the things deployed around the world by 2031 “with a total scanning capacity of a billion scans a month” for use as a preventative health tool. It’s not clear how fast the process is with the prototype unit, but Midjourney said its goal is for the whole thing to take around a minute. “We think it's completely possible that with enough early imaging in the future, the world could avoid 30% of all deaths and 50% of all healthcare costs,” the company added. According to a “technical” video included in the announcement, there’s a ring of 40 scanners included in the prototype unit the company has built. That ring of 40 elements contains 358,000 ultrasonic elements made up of tiny transducers that create ultrasound waves in water while listening for how they change when they slap the body of whoever is in Midjourney’s dunk tank up to a thousand times a second. The Midjourney Scanner, as the company has named it, can capture tissue details up to half a millimeter, which is on par with standard clinical MRIs, but pales in comparison to the resolution of more advanced designs. Oh, did we not mention our partner? Midjourney said its scanner is the first of its kind ever constructed, but the technical video says it relies on Fullbody Ultrasound Computational Tomography (FUCT, or USCT, as the industry has taken to calling it to avoid the more questionable acronym). That's not new. Fast, full-body ultrasound scanning that requires patients to be submerged in a water tank has been an active project at Caltech based on a research paper from earlier this year. Same goes for the sensors Midjourney is including in its scanner. You wouldn’t know that from reading the announcement, which makes it seem like this was a project entirely of Midjourney’s own AI fever dreams, but ultrasound tech firm Butterfly Network was compelled to issue its own press release “following Midjourney’s public announcement” in order to “provide commentary” on the AI outfit’s new venture. Butterfly confirmed in its release that it provided the 40 ultrasound imaging modules for the Midjourney Scanner. The hardware was “licensed under a co-development agreement between the two companies,” according to Butterfly. According to a 2025 SEC filing, Butterfly expects to rake in $74 million over five years for providing the hardware. There's some irony in Midjourney's failure to mention its partner: The company has faced lawsuits claiming it used copyrighted works without permission to train its AI image generation model. We reached out to both companies to learn more. Midjourney didn’t respond, and Butterfly declined to add anything beyond what was in its press release. Midjourney said that it’s planning to open its first ultrasound scanner spa at the end of 2027, but it has another hurdle to jump: FDA approval. Beyond improving its tech so that the second-generation scanner is ready for its 2027 spa date, “regulation is the next limit,” the company said. “Normally, for every diagnostic medical capability you need FDA approval,” Midjourney explained. “We’re starting by just giving you detailed body composition maps — and we’ll be submitting regular test results to the FDA for increased capabilities.” Midjourney also fails to mention how it will store and secure those scans, whether it will use said scans to train its body composition-detection algorithms, and how it’s ensuring those algorithms get things right that it usually take a human a few years of education and training to learn. ®

Een jong kind is donderdagavond van driehoog naar beneden gevallen in Dordrecht. Het kind viel uit het raam van een appartement aan de Kappeijne van de Copelloweg. Het slachtoffertje is naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

Een jong kind is donderdagavond van driehoog naar beneden gevallen in Dordrecht. Het kind viel uit het raam van een appartement aan de Kappeijne van de Copelloweg. Het slachtoffertje is naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.