One third of UK businesses plan to install electric vehicle charging points at employees homes

One third of UK businesses would consider installing electric vehicle charging points at employees’ homes One third of firms would think about putting charging points in employees’ homes to support the use of electric vehicles, according to new research  One in five claim the increase of home working has influenced their plans Upfront costs and … Read more

Two astronauts will install a British-built broadband terminal on the ISS

Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station to install a new British-built terminal that will allow them to connect to the internet at broadband speeds.  NASA’s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will venture outside at 12:05 GMT to undertake a six hour mission to mount the suitcase-sized device to the European Space Agency (ESA) … Read more

Councils plan to install just 9,300 on-street electric car chargers by 2025

Local councils are planning to install just 9,317 public charge points for electric cars between now and 2025, which threatens to cause a huge ‘bottleneck in adoption’ to plug-in vehicles in the coming years. An average of 35 chargers per local authority are due to be provided in the next four years with 126 councils … Read more

AA to install 5,000 free road signs for temporary vaccination centres

The AA has announced this morning that it will provide around 5,000 free directional road signs to temporary vaccination centres in Britain to help guide local communities through the Covid-19 vaccination period. It said the signs, which are made from 100 per cent recycled plastic, will help people navigate to vaccination locations that are not local … Read more

Man dons hi-viz gear to install fake £95 speed camera outside house

A father-of-two graphics designer launched a one-man war to stop speeders by setting up a fake speed camera outside his house. Alexander Booth, 48, was sick of the frequent accidents on the busy stretch of B2149 outside his home in Bedhampton, Havant. He decided to pull a ‘prank with a serious message’ by putting up a fake … Read more

Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors

Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors so shoppers know its safe to enter – after Aldi and Home Bargains did the same thing A new traffic light system at Tesco will tell customers whether it is safe to enter Supermarkets have had to control number of customers since … Read more

Retired lawyer quoted over half a MILLION pounds to install reliable broadband at his home

A retired lawyer was quoted £502,586 by BT to install a reliable broadband connection at his rural Cumbria home.  David Roberts, 65, had requested a broadband service fast enough for making uninterrupted video calls to his family and to watch All Creatures Great and Small.  He currently pays £70 every month for a 0.9Mbps download … Read more

Why did EDF Energy install a smart meter 9ft high where I couldn’t reach it?

Whose crazy idea was my faulty 9ft-high smart meter? I’d need a pogo stick to read it, says furious pensioner 73-year-old Joy Thomas found her smart meter wasn’t working properly  She was told she needed to supply the readings herself   But because of the poor reception where she lives in Cornwall, the 5 ft tall … Read more

Premier League stars want their clubs to install a quota of at least one BAME coach in their set-up

Top stars want Premier League to bring in quota of at least one BAME coach at EVERY club amid pressure to increase diversity – and talks have been held with the FA after they introduced same rule with England teams Top-flight players want clubs to have at least one BAME coach on first-team staff The … Read more

Wuhan schools install plastic screens on students’ desks to protect them from coronavirus

More than 50,000 students in the Chinese city of Wuhan have returned to school more than three months after the provincial capital went into lockdown in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Youngsters in the former epicentre of the pandemic filed back to class on Wednesday, wearing masks and walking in single file past … Read more