RAC says one in seven drivers want EV as next car and one in three want hybrid model but cost of living crisis is delaying move A record number of drivers want their next car to be electric, but the cost of living crisis is forcing many to delay making the switch to a more eco-friendly vehicle. The RAC said a record 14% of drivers say their next car will be electric, up from 10%

Ed Miliband criticises Liz Truss’s ‘anti-green-energy dogma’ after plans to ban solar projects revealed Labour has criticised prime minister Liz Truss’s plan to ban solar power from most of England’s farmland and vowed to treble the renewable energy source in its first term. Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, will visit a solar farm on Friday. He is to lay out his opposition to plans by Truss and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, who the

Eritrean woman, 28, in acute distress having spent most of her life in search of safety A heavily pregnant rape survivor from Eritrea has been threatened with forced removal to Rwanda by the Home Office. Human rights campaigners say it is the “most egregious” case they have come across so far in the government’s scheme to outsource the processing of UK asylum claims to the east African country. Continue reading… ​Eritrean woman, 28, in acute

Move follows axing of 32 in February as ‘most of our customers are shifting to mobile and online banking’ NatWest is to shut a further 43 branches on top of the 32 it axed earlier this year, claiming that most customers are shifting to mobile and online banking. The outlets will close in the first half of next year and the move means the group will have 678 UK branches, down from its current figure

Basic with Ads subscription available in 12 countries from 3 November as customer growth stalls Netflix is to broadcast adverts for the first time in the UK from 3 November, as the streaming giant launches a new £4.99 monthly package in an effort to reignite its stalled global growth. The world’s biggest streaming company, which has this year seen its first quarterly decline in subscribers in more than a decade, will offer a significant reduction

Croucher, who was 19 when she went missing in 2019, was last seen half a mile from the property Forensic experts are scouring a property where detectives looking into the murder of Leah Croucher, who vanished in 2019, have found human remains. Blue tarpaulin could be seen in the garden of a house in Loxbeare Drive, Furzton, Milton Keynes, where investigators had put up a tent in front of the property. A tall black screen