Ex-journalist | Business blog writer | Posting personal views, motoring bits and interesting stuff ignored by national media
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Famous fish restaurant decides to scale back operation
Locals devastated as restaurant with 'best sushi' announces shock closure thescottishsun.co.uk/money/1…
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I call it the brown bin
A chef has revealed the correct way to store avocados and advises against popular trend.
dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainm… dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainm…
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Gangs peddling second-hand bikes?
Thameslink 'suspend' bike racks at St Albans City due to 'increase in thefts' ift.tt/wETgtOI
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There is now a 'mineral rush' as the world wants more battery storage.
However, governments and mining companies face opposition from local communities seeking to protect the natural environment.
The Serbian environmental organisation @mars_sa_drine and a German counterpart, Green Legal Impact Germany, have sent an official request to the @EU_Commission, asking not to label Rio Tinto’s planned lithium mine in western Serbia a “strategic project”.
balkaninsight.com/2024/12/27…
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Dramatic depreciation means second hand EVs are looking good value.
Here are a couple I found on @AutoTrader for £17k, starting with a Jaguar I-Pace...
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Barry Hunt retweeted
Brazilian officials found 163 Chinese nationals working in "slavery-like conditions" at a construction site for a factory owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD in Brazil's Bahia state, the local labor prosecutor's office said during a news… reuters.com/business/autos-t…
Barry Hunt retweeted
Volkswagen shares were down 3% in afternoon trading as investors struggled to digest a cost-cutting deal struck between company management and a union reut.rs/3VNmJBZ
Barry Hunt retweeted
Car manufacturing down in November as sector seeks an easing of cost pressures
🚗 production falls -30.1% in November with 64,216 units rolling off factory lines.
📉Output for domestic and export markets decline -56.7% and -21.3% respectively
⚡️Year to date volumes down -12.9% to 734,562 units with 258,938 electrified vehicles produced
smmt.co.uk/2024/12/car-ma…
Christmas TV gets worse every year.
Name a classic film that is no longer aired because it might offend someone.
I'll start:
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
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Looking through my gallery from this year and this popped up. Spotted this Honda NSX by the beach - is there a better Japanese car?
(My Disco in background).
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This is absolutely shocking... we don't need more wind farms. We can't use the energy we currently produce.
We need more infrastructure such as battery storage
Yesterday, Sat-21-12-24
Wasted wind cost Britain: £18,680,371
£7,313,603 switching off wind turbines
£11,366,768 buying energy elsewhere
That's 118,607 MWh of green electrons: enough to power 3 Londons for a day.
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BUT............
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