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Bought a Lenovo pc and within 3 days it came up with a processor fault, as I had registered it with Lenovo I then contacted their technical team only to be told to download drivers and was assured this would correct the problem, guess what nope.

round 2 was then given the oldest tech trick in the book, do a full reset of the machine, bloody hell a new machine only 3 days old and all ready doing a full reset, did it work, nope still the same fault.

round 3 tech guy didn't know if my machine was working properly or not, what a total dick.

after this I told them what...

the royal navy gets a new uniform but it didn't go down so well been described as a fire retarded bin liner.

make up your own minds about the new uniform below - comments welcome.

Ramsay Square! Jason Donovan makes hilarious cameo in EastEnders' tribute to Neighbours' 30th anniversary

He is known for playing Scott Robinson in Australia's fictional Ramsay Street.

But former Neighbours star Jason Donovan became an honorary member of EastEnders, this week - as the soap's cast paid tribute to the antipodean show's 30th anniversary.

The 46 year-old star appears on set in Albert Square as part of a three-minute sketch to mark the BBC show's three-decade milestone.

Brand new Amy Winehouse movie to hit cinemas in July

A new documentary film about the life of Amy Winehouse is set to hit cinema screens from 3 July 2015.

The new movie, simply entitled 'Amy', has been directed by the BAFTA-winning Asif Capadia - who made Senna. Amy will also feature "extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks".

Vanuatu Cyclone Pam appeal

Vanuatu is in "immediate" need after Cyclone Pam tore through the country at the weekend, its president says.

President Baldwin Lonsdale said the storm had "wiped out" all development of recent years and his country would have to rebuild "everything".

Aid has begun arriving in the storm-hit nation - one of the world's poorest - but contact has still not been made with some of its more remote islands.

Aid agencies say it could be one of the worst disasters ever to hit the region.

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You may notice the sky get darker on Friday 20th as the UK experiences the first eclipse of 2015.

A solar eclipse is when the Moon lines up between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out the Sun's light.

It's a rare event and only possible when the Moon is at exactly the right distance from the Earth.

The eclipse we'll see on Friday will be a partial eclipse.

The sky will darken but the Sun will still peek out from behind the Moon.

The eclipse will begin at 8.45am and the Moon will be nearest the middle of the Sun at 9.31am.

Horse racing fans bid a final farewell at Cheltenham today to horse rider Tony McCoy.

There was no fairytale third Cheltenham Gold Cup triumph or even a final Festival winner for the champion jockey on Friday but that did not stop nearly 70,000 racegoers hailing Tony McCoy one last time.

Clapped and cheered all the way back to the paddock as the fog closed in and the light faded, McCoy was presented with a gold trophy.

"I very much appreciate it and obviously I'm going to miss being a jockey," he said.

"I was very honoured and flattered...

Anger boils in Jordan over ISIS killing of pilot

An ISIS video showing the horrific killing of a Jordanian air force pilot has stoked anger in the Arab kingdom and left analysts wondering what impact it will have on the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group.

Jordan already carried out one act of retaliation, executing two terrorist prisoners with ties to al Qaeda in Iraq. One of them was Sajida al-Rishawi, the would-be suicide bomber whose release ISIS had demanded.

Protesters gathered in the streets of the Jordanian capital, Amman, and in the home...

'Innocent people' on police photos database

Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database - despite a court ruling it could be unlawful.

They include photos of people never charged, or others cleared of an offence, and were uploaded without Home Office approval, Newsnight has learned.

Photos of "hundreds of thousands" of innocent people may be on the database, an independent commissioner said.

Tory MPs 'tried to sabotage BBC documentary about Westminster'


Conservative MPs tried to bring filming to a halt of a groundbreaking BBC documentary on Parliament by sabotaging filming in the chamber of the House of Commons.

Michael Cockerell, a highly-experienced documentary maker, disclosed that the Tory MPs had planned to trip up one of his cameramen.

The plan was to force John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, to suspend the sitting and frustrate the documentary, which was sanctioned by Parliamentary authorities.

However,...