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One of our neighbours purchased a new plug-in hybrid about 18 months ago and installed a home charger. As most of his mileage consists of of no more than 20 to 40 miles per day, the petrol engine rarely fires up. Even having done various long distance trips of 200 to 300 miles each way, where...

New car registrations in the UK for September 2024 (on the new 74 plate). source - SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) BEV (full electric) = 56,387 (up 24.4% on Sep 23) - 20.5% share of the total market for September. HEV (Hybrid) = 39,017 (up 2.6% on Sep...

This is just a glitch in FR24’s system. Nothing to do with the aircraft systems. You have to appreciate that FR24 is a hobbyist’s web site, using a mixture of data picked up by hobbyist receivers, correlated against data bases of both aircraft identities and airline flight numbers and their...

It takes quite a while for a 45 car long train of WIA's to cross at slow speed (9x 5-car units). There have been the occasional boat charters using the crossing over the last decade or so. z

Visible due to the wide swathe of earthworks along the route. Once it's finished and the surrounding, disturbed land has been restored, or landscaped, I doubt it'll be visible in that view. z

The LCY terminal expansion plan was paused during the pandemic. The large apron expansion and parallel taxiway link to the end of R/W 27, was already under construction at the time and was completed, but the brakes were put on the terminal development plan, due to the uncertainty about air...

I might be able to shed some light on this. I was familiar with the original plan for the Stansted terminal, it’s originally planned 4 satellites and the transit system, having had a detailed briefing and tour of the site in the final stages of construction and fitting out. As part of that...

It's ethnic and rooted in the historic emergence of the ideas of nationalism, in the late 19th century and events that took place between about 1880 to 1948. The history goes back more than two and a half thousand years, but the relevant history goes back to the latter decade of the 1800's and...

Live TV and video from a couple of hours ago, showing literally hundreds of rockets still being fired by Hamas. Earlier a Sky news crew visited one of the communities attacked on Saturday. IDF soldiers were still going house to house finding the bodies of murdered people and searching for booby...

That's appalling whataboutary false equivalence and a total distortion of reality. The vast majority of the unfortunate Palestinian deaths that have occurred, have been as a direct result and consequence of violent actions directed at predominately civilian Israeli targets. You can accuse the...

Sky TV News, ran an unedited live stream yesterday evening, following the pro-Palestinian March in London. [Edit: Obviously I cannot provide a link to a live, rolling broadcast, that isn't available on the Sky player] It’s been reported that something like 5,000 took part. It lasted for about...

It isn’t just reports, there a videos circulating on social media of the bodies of the kidnap victims being paraded and abused, with crowds cheering them on and chanting. The fate of the German girl with dual Israeli nationality, is horrifying. Seized with others from the festival, reportedly...

So what do you suggest would be a proportionate response ? .

I agree that Israel has made a rod for its own back over the last 30 years or so, particularly with the settlement issues. They could have saved themselves an awful lot of trouble, if they had made a concerted effort to accommodate and try and win the trust of the Palestinians many decades ago...

They've cut it down to only 6 platforms now. With the level of surrounding commercial development proposed, it could likely end up with completely eliminating any potential for future expansion of the HS2 side of the station. HS2 and its supporting infrastructure, including the stations, was...

Sadly, there's no chance of that with Hamas vowed to the complete destruction and removal of the Israeli nation. They have a total grip on Gaza, leaving no moderate voices of any significance or influence Hezbollah and other militant islamist groups have the same aim. They have no desire for...

Bergamo airport (Orio) only became known as Milan-Bergamo, when Ryanair set up camp there, about 20 years ago.

I saw it "in the flesh" at the Fully Charged Live show, at Farnborough in 2021. Cute and quite appealing, but very expensive.

There's no question about Gatwick being a "London Airport". The modern day Gatwick was originally built in the late 1950's (opened in 1958) specifically as London's 2nd airport, replacing several older, smaller London area airports. It replaced the last remnants of Croydon airport, which had...

The government are not involved in providing the infrastructure. That is entirely private industry activity. What government have failed to do, is take a more proactive part in facilitating the expansion of this sector, for example, by offering exceptional tax breaks and financial incentives to...