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Motors A total of 132 registered vehicles will take part in the first race of the 50th season.
Motors smart, the premium electric car brand, today announced a global partnership with multi-platinum UK singer-songwriter Jessie J, who joins as a “friend of the brand”.
Gadgets & Gaming Ares Games is preparing to launch two crowdfunding campaigns in the coming months: the first is ‘Mega Empires: The Far East (North and South)’, two new epic games in the ‘Mega...
Motors Hispano Suiza has collaborated with the new series ‘Day One’, an international Prime Video production set in Barcelona that explores the relationship between innovation and humanity in the digital...
Motors The WORLD CAR FINALS Powered by Brembo continues today with the announcement of the Top Three in the World finalists in six World Car Awards categories.
Motors Hagerty’s Festival of the Unexceptional is the only motoring event to celebrate base model brilliance, attracting owners and fans of unexceptional cars from all over the world.
Other News Trina Storage, a global energy storage solution provider, attended Energy Storage Summit London 2026, showcasing its fully integrated energy storage solutions from cell to AC and engaging in...
Motors BMW Group UK and Ireland has named its 2025 BMW and MINI Retailers of the Year, recognising performance across the past twelve months.
Motors Chief Executive at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Chris Brownridge, says: “This moment marks the point at which our new extension building becomes fully weathertight, meaning our specialist Technologies...
Other News With Chartered Week running 23–27 February, the global educational charity and professional body, the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), is highlighting the powerful role...
Motors BYD, the world’s leading manufacturer of New-Energy Vehicles (NEV), has announced pricing and specifications for the 2026 SEAL – a model which builds on the technology, practicality and design of...
Motors GWM UK has handed over a new GWM POER300 Ultra pick-up to NFU Scotland (NFUS), supporting the organisation’s day-to-day operations across the country and marking the newly launched GWM–NFU Scotland...
Other News A housebuilder has empowered schoolchildren in Berkshire to champion positivity and take a stand against bullying through art.
Motors Love is in the air this weekend, so Volkswagen is inviting people to take a GTI car for a ‘first date’ and celebrate 50 years of an icon.
Motors Volvo Cars has partnered with award-winning singer songwriter EJAE to explore the car as a creative studio through “Time After Time”, an original pop track born from EJAE’s creative relationship...
Motors Volvo Cars has partnered with award-winning singer songwriter EJAE to explore the car as a creative studio through “Time After Time”, an original pop track born from EJAE’s creative relationship...
The arbiters of social etiquette from Debretts may choke on their turkey with the news that millions of Brits planned to use their mobiles at the Christmas dinner table. New research from Direct Line Home Insurance reveals 9.9 million people planned to use their mobile at the Christmas dinner table, swapping face time with family for games and screen time with faraway friends.
Record numbers of older people worried about being alone over Christmas have already contacted older people’s housing and care charity The Abbeyfield Society as its Coping at Christmas campaign gets into full swing. Since the campaign launch in November, Abbeyfield has handled hundreds of calls from isolated older people who face being alone over the extended Christmas period.
Christmas has come early for children in Sandwell thanks to a new £100,000 play area with lots of new equipment in historic Lightwoods Park. The play area features a giant two-tower climbing wall guaranteed to give youngsters fun during the school holidays. Schoolchildren from Abbey Junior School, local councillors, council parks officers and representatives from Heritage Building and Conservation Ltd attended the launch.
Sandwell Council’s foster carers have received a boost with a donations of toys for all ages from the congregation at Great Barr Methodist Church. Councillor Simon Hackett, Cabinet Member for Childrens Services, received the donations on behalf of Sandwell’s Looked After Children & Young People from Reverend Rachel Frank and members of the church congregation including Dorothy Clive and Hazel Powell.
As New Year resolutions go, losing weight is a fairly ordinary one. But add to that skydiving and raising funds to support one day of end of life care and something quite extraordinary happens. In January 2015, John Taylor Hospice CEO Kate Phipps set a sky-scraping personal fundraising target of £14,000 – enough to fund the hospice and all its services for 24 hours.
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas from everyone at The Phoenix Newspaper!
