内容摘要：A team of nurses who helped nearly 200 people in North Lincolnshire access health services has secured funding to keep going for another 12 months.

A team of nurses who helped nearly 200 people in North Lincolnshire access health services has secured funding to keep going for another 12 months.

"They decided that competition was too hard and it would be easier to buy out their rivals than to compete with them," said FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson in his opening statement at Monday's trial.Meta countered that the lawsuit from the FTC, which originally reviewed and approved both those acquisitions, was "misguided".

Meta "acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to improve and grow them alongside Facebook", the company's attorney Mark Hansen argued.The FTC lawyer cited a 2012 memo from Mr Zuckerberg in which he discusses the importance of "neutralising" Instagram.Mr Matheson called that message "a smoking gun".

Meta, on the other hand, said the purchases made the consumer experience better."Acquisitions to improve and grow" have never been found unlawful, Meta's lead litigator, said on Monday, "and they should not be found unlawful here".

said last year that it had 3.27 billion daily active users across its products.

Instagram was expected to account for more than half of Meta's advertising revenue in the US in 2025. according to research firm Emarketer.Police said the "extremely intensive investigation" could span the UK after the remains were found at what was believed to be a rescue centre in Crays Hill, Essex, on Tuesday.

Oaveed Rahman, of Hope Road, Crays Hill, was due to appear at court on Thursday, charged with three counts of fraud by false representation and two animal cruelty offences.A second man arrested in the investigation was released on bail until July, Essex Police said.

Officers have been trying to locate the dogs' last-known owners, as well asat the premises near Billericay.