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The commitment from Vauxhall’s owner Stellantis to build electric vehicles at its Ellesmere Port plant is a second jolt of good news in five days for a British car industry adjusting fast to the electric revolution. After Nissan revealed its plans for a new electric vehicle and a battery “gigafactory” at its Sunderland base last

Vauxhall’s parent firm has revealed a new electric vehicle future for its Ellesmere Port plant, removing a years-long threat of closure from the factory. Stellantis confirmed on Tuesday that a government grant, coupled with a £100m investment of its own, would at least safeguard the 1,000 jobs left at the site. Ellesmere Port in Cheshire,

The Talk co-host Amanda Kloots, wife of the late Broadway actor Nick Cordero, shared an emotional message on Monday marking the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death due to complications from Covid-19. He was 41. The Tony-nominated Cordero appeared in stage productions of A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Toxic Avenger, Rock of Ages

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that people in England will no longer be instructed to work from home from later this month. The move is part of Mr Johnson’s plan to scrap the remaining coronavirus restrictions on 19 July. He said: “The government is no longer telling people it is necessary that they should

Summer of Soul (Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will report a three-day cum of $650K in 752 theaters in North America for a per screen average of $865, distributor Searchlight said of the Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson doc about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The film, with an A+ CinemaScore, performed best in

Shares in Morrisons surged by more than 11% at Monday’s market open as investors licked their lips at the prospect of a bidding war for the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain. There is speculation of interest from Amazon and private equity firms after it was announced on Saturday that the FTSE 100 firm had agreed

A quarter-century ago, Will Smith’s Capt. Steven Hiller was “a little anxious to get up there and whoop ET’s ass” and save Earth from alien invaders in Independence Day. In 2021, the actor paid it forward in a less-dramatic but equally cool way: He paid a reported $100,000 to save New Orleans’ Fourth of July fireworks

The financier spearheading a £300m takeover of Newcastle United has accused the Premier League of a “closely guarded lack of transparency” and of lacking accountability ahead of legal proceedings that will determine the future ownership of one of England’s biggest clubs. Sky News has seen a letter from Amanda Staveley to Tracey Crouch, who is

Britney Spears called 911 to report conservatorship abuse one night prior to presenting her testimony in court, according to a New Yorker exposé published on Saturday by Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino. “Members of Spears’s team began texting one another frantically,” Farrow and Tolentino wrote, in describing the events that followed. “They were worried about what

Bosses at the UK’s biggest retailers want the prime minister to help stop the “shocking violence and abuse” of shop workers. Executives at Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Primark are reportedly among those to have written to Boris Johnson asking for an amendment to policing laws. Violence against shop workers has bee increasing in recent years, retailers

On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 7 new deaths from Covid-19 and 644 new positive cases. 275 County residents are currently hospitalized with Covid-19; 26% of them are in the ICU. While data showed that deaths from Covid remain low, hospitalizations are up slightly, and there has been a tripling

Supermarket giant Morrisons has agreed a takeover offer from a consortium in a deal worth £6.3bn. The move follows the rejection of an earlier £5.5bn bid from one of the world’s biggest buyout firms, Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), which the grocery chain said “significantly undervalued” the business. Under the terms of the agreed deal

Amazon has awarded veteran exec Andy Jassy more than $214 million in stock grants, which will vest over a 10-year period, as he gets set to replace Jeff Bezos as CEO. The tech giant revealed the award in an SEC filing this evening. The changing of the executive guard will happen Monday. Jassy has been

Petrol is at its highest price for nearly eight years after eight consecutive months of increases at the pumps, figures from the RAC show. The motoring organisation predicted escalating fuel bills, driven by the rising cost of oil, could speed up the switchover to electric cars. According to RAC data, a litre of unleaded rose

On July 2 of 2020, when the initial spring surge of Covid-19 was fading, local elected officials across Southern California ordered virtually every beach shut down from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Cities around California cancelled fireworks displays. Governor Gavin Newsom closed bars and mandated masks in public spaces. What officials couldn’t stop, however,

The future of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant is set to be secured through production of a new electric vehicle, with an announcement possible as soon as next week. Ministers have been in talks with Vauxhall owner Stellantis for months over providing government support for the plant, and Sky News understands the manufacturer has signed

Actors’ Equity says that fully vaccinated theater companies now can dispense with masking and Covid-19 testing mandates. The live-theater union’s newly updated protocols will remain in effect through the end of September. “The health and safety of our members comes first,” said Equity president Kate Shindle. “We are heartened by the declining infection rates nationwide,

Confectionery giant Haribo has warned a shortage of lorry drivers is causing difficulties getting its sweets to shops in the UK. The German firm, whose products include gummy bears, foamy fried eggs and cola bottles, said it was working to tackle the problem. It comes after the haulage industry warned of a widespread UK delivery

Jeff Simpson is the new managing director at BYU Broadcasting, overseeing multiple channels including BYUtv. Simpson joins the Provo, Utah-based company from Deseret News in Salt Lake City, where he’d been president and publisher since 2017. “I often refer to BYUB as ‘the little engine that could,’ persistently steaming up abandoned hilltops, such as capturing a co-viewing family

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