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Zoe Ball is leaving her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show after six years. The 53-year-old, who recently lost her mother to cancer, will present her last show on Friday, 20 December. She said she was leaving to focus on family. Ball says she will remain part of the Radio 2 team and will give further

Kia’s upcoming entry-level EV has finally made its way to the famous Nurburgring for testing. The EV4 hatch was spotted ripping across the track, nearly on two wheels at one point, as Kia preps for its big debut. According to Kia, the EV4 is “an entirely new type of EV sedan. ” It was first

Kia is hitting the brakes on production of its first three-row electric SUV in the US. Despite the EV9’s successful debut, new concerns about the EV tax credit are reportedly causing Kia to scale back — at least for now. After another record-breaking US sales month in October, Kia said the impressive growth is driven

British actress Olivia Williams has said that in more than 30 years of acting on screen, starring in Dune: Prophecy is the first time she has felt confident her scenes would not be cut from a project. Williams, who has appeared in films including The Sixth Sense, Rushmore and An Education, and portrayed Camilla Parker

Davina McCall has made an “enormous leap forward in the last 24 hours”, her partner has said on her Instagram. In an update, her partner Michael Douglas, said: “Update folks. Thanks so much to all the well wishers. She really has made an enormous leap forward in the last 24 hours. She is out of

Owner-operators are a huge part of the heavy truck market, and they’ve been among the most hesitant groups to transition from diesel to electric semi trucks. That may be changing, however, as Saldivar’s Trucking becomes first independent owner-operator in the US to deploy a Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 truck. The higher up-front cost of

The Windsor, Ontario utility says it’s driving towards a more sustainable future after adding a dozen new electric vehicles to its fleet – including a state-of-the-art, 55-foot Terex electric bucket truck. Based on a Class 7 (33,000 lb. GVWR) International eMV Series BEV, the Terex EV takes the eMV’s 291 kWh battery and adds the Terex

Standard Glastonbury Festival tickets for 2025 sold out in less than half an hour after organisers adopted a new booking system. Organisers said: “Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply. There will be a resale of any cancelled or

Kubota says its new KATR farm tractor concept raises the bar in autonomous, zero-emission farming – and it looks like they’ve convinced others, too. The robot just won “Best of Innovation” at the CES Innovation Awards. Built as a follow-up to last year’s New Agri Concept electric autonomous farm tractor, the new Kubota KATR is a

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson says the health scare in June, which forced the postponement of his boxing match with Jake Paul, almost cost him his life. “I almost died in June,” Tyson wrote on X, adding that he “had 8 blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital”. The 58-year-old, who lost

Mark Webber’s role as Pulp’s fan club manager started simply enough, writing newsletters and posting out small bits of memorabilia such as postcards, stickers and badges. But, just like the band he loved, he wanted to do things a little differently. A balloon launch to drum up publicity in their hometown of Sheffield didn’t attract

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station, located in Otog Front Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, came online on November 5. With a massive installed capacity of 3 gigawatts (GW) and over

Jon Kenny, an Irish comedian and actor known for D’Unbelievables and roles on Father Ted, has died aged 66. His wife Margie told local news outlet the Limerick Leader that the comedian had died on Friday evening in Galway Clinic. In a statement to the newspaper, Kenny’s family said he had a cardiac arrest early

On today’s informative episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got Honda engineers Jason Hwang and Emilio Sanchez to talk us through some of the things that make the GM Ultium-based Honda Prologue EV feel like a real Honda, and why that matters. Jason and Emilio talk about some of the choices they made to make the

Boy George is contemplating his relationship with fame. Intoxicating, often inescapable, he says he has not always found his decades in the spotlight easy There has been a cost, he says. Much has been well documented. But in recent years he has been able to enjoy it all much more. And it’s not real. “Fame

Tesla is adding new incentives to convince people to buy its vehicles by the end of the year: 3 months of free Supercharging and Full Self-Driving. Those are being added to FSD transfers, discounts, and more. In Q4, Tesla aims to deliver a record number of at least 515,000 vehicles in order for deliveries not

Davina McCall has revealed she is undergoing a brain operation after doctors discovered a benign tumour. The 57-year-old television presenter said in a video posted on Instagram that the tumour was a colloid cyst, which she described as “very rare”. She said the chances of having it were “three in a million,” and she had

Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin solar farm, which will use US-made First Solar Series 6 Plus bifacial modules, will be constructed by The Boldt Company, creating 150 construction and service jobs. Apple River Solar will generate

Coach tickets to Glastonbury 2025 were sold out in half an hour, organisers have said, as they roll out a new booking system for festivalgoers. They were the first group of tickets to be sold for the world-famous festival in Somerset, which is set to take place between 25 and 29 June. This year, fans

All-electric aircraft developer BETA Technologies has shared another important milestone in bringing its first two vessels to market. Most recently, BETA’s founder, CEO, and test pilot Kyle Clark took the production version of its ALIA eCTOL up for its first flight, as seen in the video below. BETA Technologies is a fully integrated electric aircraft