user: Here is a news article: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| The popularity of Thursday weddings is soaring, new figures suggest as cost-conscious couples abandon the Saturday tradition in favour of better deals. 
  
 Brides and grooms choosing the midweek slot has increased by almost a third over seven years, according to research by wedding planning website hitched.co.uk. 
  
 An estimated total of 21,700 weddings took place on Thursday last year - about 6,000 more than in 2008. 
  
 Meanwhile, insurance data from John Lewis between shows a 43 per cent increase over five years for couples taking out policies for Thursday nuptials. ||||| Why Hitched? 
  
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Here is a summary: – Ah, weddings: The chance to celebrate love, commitment ... and the increasingly staggering amount of cash couples are forking over to tie the knot. One trending nod to frugality, however, is the rise of the less costly Thursday wedding. In fact, the Times reports that in the United Kingdom, nearly 22,000 weddings took place on Thursday last year, which is about 6,000 more than in 2008, according to data from hitched.co.uk. That's an increase of a third in just seven years, with Friday weddings basically holding steady, and it's happening in spite of the fact that couples are essentially asking their guests to take off work to attend a wedding just so the couple can save money. "With many venues and wedding suppliers booking up months or even years in advance, a Thursday wedding can also give wedding planning couples a better chance of booking their first choice vendors," says the site's editor. Insurance data backs these findings, showing a 43% increase for next year among couples who've taken out policies for Thursday weddings, reports the Telegraph. The paper interviewed one couple who found not just the general booking cheaper (by a third) but even the catering. And their guests saved on hotel costs. But the Telegraph notes separately Thursday nuptials aren't all love at first sight. One woman says friends and family left their reception by 11pm and didn't "let their hair down as much as they might" because they had to work the next day, while there was no one around for brunch the morning after. Still, she says, they'd do it again—they saved $10,000 having Thursday nuptials, which they put toward their kids instead. (This woman chose to exchange vows in a hospital.)

Here is a news article: Matt Roberts, the longtime lead guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down before he left the band in 2012, died early Saturday morning in a hotel outside Milwaukee. He was 38. 
  
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 Roberts served as 3 Doors Down's guitarist from their 1996 formation until 2012, when he left the group for health reasons. According to CNN, Roberts had been rehearsing for a Wisconsin fundraising concert for veterans when he and his father went back to the hotel. Hours later, police were called to the hotel for a man "either asleep or passed out in the hallway of his hotel." 
  
  
  
 "I was wakened at 8:50 this morning by some detectives beating on my door. It's always scary as a parent, they were in suits and that's when they told me. They asked me if Matt Roberts was your son, I said yes, and they said 'we have bad news to tell you, Matt deceased last night,'" Matt's father Darrell Roberts told CNN. 
  
 An autopsy will be conducted to determine Roberts' cause of death, but TMZ reports that a drug overdose is suspected. "I know he had prescription drug addiction. He suffered greatly from anxiety," Darrell Roberts said. "I thought he had beaten it all." 
  
 Roberts, along with singer Brad Arnold and bassist Todd Harrell, formed 3 Doors Down in 1996 in Escatawpa, Mississippi. Four years later, the band's hit "Kryptonite," co-written by Roberts, soared to Number Three on the Billboard Hot 100. The track, off 2000's The Better Life, was the first in a string of Hot 100-reaching singles that were penned by Roberts and his band mates, including "Be Like That," "Here Without You" and "When I'm Gone." 
  
 Following 2002's multiplatinum Away from the Sun, 3 Doors Down twice topped the Billboard 200 thanks to 2005's Seventeen Days and 2008's 3 Doors Down. 2011's Time of My Life was the band's final LP with original members Roberts and Harrell; the latter was fired from the group after the bassist was charged with vehicular manslaughter in 2013. 
  
 In May 2012, Roberts departed 3 Doors Down, telling fans in a statement that "performing nearly 300 dates each year" with the band had "exacerbated" the "health and circulation issues" he had been dealing with. 3 Doors Down will always have a special place in my heart and it saddens me to take this time off,” Roberts said at the time. "But my health has to be my first priority." ||||| Story highlights Matt Roberts was found dead in a Wisconsin hotel 
  
 His father says he struggled with an addiction to prescription medication 
  
 (CNN) Matt Roberts, best known as a former guitarist for the band 3 Doors Down, has died, according to his father. 
  
 The 38-year-old musician was traveling with his father in West Bend, WI, where he was due to perform at a charity event for veterans. 
  
 He had been rehearsing early Saturday morning for the " Rockin' for Heroes " benefit event at a local restaurant, said his father, Darrell Roberts. 
  
 The father said he often traveled with his son, and last saw him outside his hotel room. 
  
 "We go up to our room, we got adjoining rooms and -- he was always looking after me as his dad -- so my key didn't work and he went and came back in just a few minutes and got me a new key. He opened the door for me and he said 'just make sure you open the adjoining room in case you need anything.' He was always looking out for me," Roberts said. 
  
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assistant: Here is a summary: – Matt Roberts, the lead guitarist for 3 Doors Down from the group's founding in 1996 until he left for health reasons in 2012, was found dead Saturday in a Wisconsin hotel, reports Rolling Stone. He was 38. "I was wakened at 8:50 this morning by some detectives beating on my door. It's always scary as a parent, they were in suits and that's when they told me. They asked me if Matt Roberts was your son, I said yes, and they said 'we have bad news to tell you, Matt deceased last night,'" dad Darrell Roberts tells CNN. The younger Roberts had been rehearsing for a veterans fundraiser; hours after the Robertses returned to the hotel police were called on a reports of a man asleep or passed out in the hallway. Matt Roberts was pronounced dead shortly after. An autopsy is planned to confirm a cause of death. Darrell Roberts says his son "had prescription drug addiction. He suffered greatly from anxiety. It's crazy as a performer; he never liked crowds or liked places he didn't know about as a baby, as a child, and this was his way of dealing with it and me and him talked about it often." The father says he thought his son was OK. "I thought he had beaten it all," he says.