The announcement of a battery “gigafactory” in Sunderland is a significant moment on the road to electrifying the UK car fleet, a journey that until now had barely left the kerb. The new factory, built by Chinese manufacturer Envision, will be the largest of its kind in the UK with capacity to produce 9GWh of
Month: July 2021
Stephen Dorff was just a teenager when he landed his first major film role in the 1987 horror The Gate. Since then he’s gone from child star to leading man, and his career has seen him play a range of characters including a vampire overlord in Blade, the fifth Beatle in Backbeat, and one of
Love Island “bombshell” contestant Chloe Burrows has received “vile” abuse and death threats after just three days in the villa, her family and friends have said – in a statement reminding viewers to “be kind”. Chloe, 25, arrived in the Love Island villa in Majorca a few hours after the original 10 contestants had coupled
Prince Harry stood alongside his brother Prince William as the pair reunited to unveil a statue of their mother, Princess Diana, on what would have been her 60th birthday. A small, intimate ceremony was held for the unveiling of the Princess of Wales’s memorial statue, which was commissioned by her two sons in 2017. At
Double jabs will be “a liberator” for people wanting to travel abroad this summer, Boris Johnson has said – as he announced details of the government’s plan will be revealed in the “next few days”. The prime minister would not confirm when a policy allowing those who have received two vaccine doses to visit amber
A key Trump Organization executive has surrendered to authorities ahead of expected charges against him and the former US president’s company. Chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was seen walking into a Manhattan courthouse with his lawyer, with prosecutors expected to announce the first criminal indictment in a two-year investigation into Donald Trump’s business practices. They
It’s taken seven series of Love Island – and a considerable amount of coaxing from viewers – for the producers to cast a contestant with a disability. In 2019, ITV bosses responded to questions I had asked about disability by referring to the costs of adapting the villa. Richard Cowles, the show’s producer, has also
Authorities in the Philippines have raised the danger level of the Taal volcano after it spurted a huge plume of gases and steam into the air. The Taal volcano in Batangas province, south of the capital Manila, caused disruption and concern on Thursday after spewing the 1km (0.62mile) high phreatomagmatic plume. According to the British
It was a long wait for the Party’s party. The thousands of people awarded a ticket to Tiananmen Square had left their quarantine hotels at 3am for an 8am start, passing through security check after security check. To pass the time, they sang old red songs – Socialism is Good and other such classics –
COVID-19 is common in pets whose owners have had the disease, research suggests. Scientists in the Netherlands tested 156 dogs and 154 cats from 196 households for the coronavirus. Six cats and seven dogs (4.2%) returned positive PCR tests and 31 cats and 23 dogs (17.4%) tested positive for COVID antibodies. Researchers said owners who
A judge has denied Britney Spears’s request to remove her father as her conservator. The singer, 39, gave an emotional court testimony last week, describing the controversial arrangement as “abusive” and likening it to being “sex trafficked”. Britney‘s father Jamie has been her conservator – giving him control of most of her personal and financial