London, Oct 6: The chief scientist for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has said that the mega machine was put out of action for months because one electrical connection out of 10,000 was badly soldered.

The LHC, which aims to shed light on how the universe began by replicating conditions just after the Big Bang, has to operate at extremely cold temperatures.

According to a report in the Telegraph, it was switched on to great fanfare on September 10, but had to be turned back off nine days later because the cooling mechanism broke.

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London, October 6 : Two million Brits dislike going to work because they cannot tolerate their colleagues, according to a new study.

Eight per cent confessed that they hated people at work, and nearly a third have quit jobs because of it.

While 25 per cent admitted that they put up with their workmates only because they were paid to, a 29 per cent said they hated them for licking their bosses’ feet.

Around 50 per cent declared that they did not socialise outside work, with 25 per cent saying that they did only if they were forced to.

According to British tabloid The Sun, an interesting two third thought how their colleagues managed to reach the level that they did despite being awful with what they do.

Berlin - Fondly known to wartime squadron members in England as "Old Flo," the Halifax bomber met a violent end on January 20, 1944 when it was shot down by a German Messerschmidt fighter over Berlin.

The 102 Halifax squadron based at Pockington in Yorkshire had 15 aircraft taking part in raids on the German capital that night, of which seven were lost. It was the squadron's greatest single loss in bombing raids carried out in both world wars.

London, Oct 5 : A new study has revealed that the red squirrels in Britain will have only ten years before they are wiped out completely, if urgent action is not taken.

The squirrels, which are native to the UK and which were made famous by Beatrix Potter’s Squirrel Nutkin, are particularly vulnerable at this time of year.

The threat on the reds comes from the grey squirrels, which were introduced to the UK from America in the 19th century, and which carry a squirrel pox, which is deadly to reds.

The population of the reds needs to be under constant supervision and the Wildlife Trusts wants the public to help them keep track and report any sightings.

London, October 5 (ANI): One in five young Britons think that their parents have taken drugs, reports a new survey.

According to a poll commissioned by specialist drug and alcohol charity ‘Addaction’, only one percent of parents questioned think their own children take drugs, while over half of the young generation itself thought their parents ‘understand about drugs’.

Of the young public questioned, 90 percent stood ‘against drugs’ while nine in ten feel ‘little or no pressure’ to take drugs when with friends.

However, one in ten still believe that celebrities taking drugs was ‘cool’ whereas two thirds of parents are worried about its impact on their children.