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11 Apr 2023
Rural communities up and down the country set to benefit from funding
The Government has announced £110 million funding for communities allocated under the Rural England Prosperity Fund Communities across rural England are set to benefit from £110 million in local authority funding...
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06 Mar 2023
Yorkshire to gain further electric buses through funding scheme
The BBC report York will have one of the first bus depots in the UK outside of London to run a fully electric fleet, the government has announced The Department for...
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27 Feb 2023
£56 million of public and industry funding electrifies chargepoint plans
The Goverment have announced UK drivers will benefit from an additional £56 million in public and industry funding for increasing electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints across the country The announcement on 21...
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10 Oct 2022
Call for Rural to be at the heart of the journey to Net Zero
The impacts of dangerous climate change will affect all communities. This much is already clear from the rural impacts of increasingly frequent storm damage, flood events and periods of drought....
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28 Mar 2022
Electric car chargepoints to overtake fuel pumps
BBC reports that the Department for Transport (DfT) has pledged that the number of charge points by the end of the decade will be the equivalent to almost five times...
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14 Mar 2022
UK ministers urged to promote e-bikes to tackle health and climate crises
The Guardian reports that ministers have been urged to consider subsidising e-bikes after a study found that mass use of such bikes could create more than £2bn in health benefits...
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04 Jan 2022
Transport minister on UK Government’s plans for greener transport
Local Cumberland paper The News and Star reports on comments from Transport Minister Trudy Harrison MP (Con) revealing the Government’s areas of focus for reducing carbon emissions Mrs Harrison said...
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29 Nov 2021
Plan for car chargers in all new homes in England ‘will make access exclusive’
The Guardian reports that the prime minister’s plan to mandate electric car chargers across all new homes in England from next year risks making access to charge points “exclusive”, leaving...
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22 Nov 2021
Innovate UK injects fresh funding into rural charging infrastructure project
Business Green reports that the Rural Electric Mobility Enabler project led by EDF energy has received funding to help improve charging infrastructure The UK’s innovation and research body, Innovate UK,...
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08 Nov 2021
London has more public charging points than 36 rural counties combined
The i News reports on new analysis by the County Councils Network revealing that there are more publicly available charging points in London than in the entirety of England’s counties,...
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