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The Rudy Project Astral glasses have fantastic optics and a minimal and extremely lightweight frame made from a bio-based polyamide, but the frame itself has limited adjustment and can cause fit issues with some helmets, and although various lenses are…
Ben Houchen didn’t waste much time with “Happy New Year”s. He was straight out of the box on 2 January with his re-election campaign, armed with an imaginary stash of £1 billion from the HS2 cancellation and a dizzying array of infrastructure press rel…
Speed limits of 20mph[1] are found everywhere in London, making it the world’s slowest city centre for drivers.
According to location technology company, journeys of 6.2 miles in the capital took an average of 37 minutes and 20 seconds last year. This …
The Ford Puma was the UK’s bestselling car of 2023, according to official figures.
Annual figures from industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show that 1.9m cars (across all cars and fuel types) were registered in 2023, com…
I seem to have arrived in a dystopian video game. All around me are soaring, jagged skyscrapers, half built, or half falling down, with scores of empty windows as black as skeletal eye sockets. The doomy towers parade down the littered seashore, e…
Journeys between Sheffield[1] and London[2] are set to get speedier. Right now, it takes around two hours to get from the capital up to Sheff if you’re travelling by train. But FirstGroup is on a mission to hurry things up.
The parent company of the l…
Police are maintaining a presence outside an arson-hit house. Two PCSOs have been positioned inside a cordon outside the fire-hit property on Eagle Street, in Hanley[1].
The front door has been boarded up since the attack. It comes as a woman rescued f…
Storm Henk: Heavy rainfall leads to flooding across England and Wales
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsCommuters [1]travelling to the South We…
On the 18th December 2023, The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) announced their provisional local government finance settlement for 2024/25[1]. The Government figures indicate that local authorities’ total core spending powe…
Despite a turbulent few years for the car industry, the situation for both manufacturers and buyers is slowly returning to relative normality. Lead times on new vehicle orders are typically down to a few months (rather than over a year for some cars ba…