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After taking that DNA test almost a decade ago, the genealogy company entered her data into its vast family tree, allowing other users to make contact with their genetic relatives – close or distant.

EU tariffs on fish from the Falklands is a similarly pressing issue, given that's where the vast majority of those exports go.

But weighing those benefits against the various harms of vast numbers of shiny bodies whirling around the earth is already enough to push dark sky lovers into action.

Westminster City Council said it granted the "vast majority" of licensing applications and only refused ones where safety concerns had been raised by the police or because significant disruption was likely.

There is the internet revolution upending business models and working patterns, inventing social media and concentrating vast wealth and influence among a clutch of global behemoths like Apple, Meta, Amazon and X.