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Cillian Murphy and his wife Yvonne McGuinness have bought a cinema the Oscar-winning actor used to visit as a child. The couple will refurbish The Phoenix Cinema in Dingle, County Kerry, south-west Ireland, next year. The venue, which had previously been used as a dance hall, had been in operation for more than 100 years,

Tesla announced that ‘Actually Smart Summon,’ its autonomous driving feature that enables moving its vehicles without anyone inside over short distances, is now being launched in Europe and the Middle East. The automaker’s Full Self-Driving suite of features has been limited in those markets due to regulations and Tesla’s focus on making them work in

Ed Sheeran helped Ipswich Town to sign a player over the summer just before getting on stage with Taylor Swift, according to the club’s chief executive. Mark Ashton claims the pop star got on a video call to encourage a prospective new signing to seal his move to the East Anglia outfit. He did not

Leading yard operation 3PL YMX Logistics has announced plans to deploy fully twenty (20) of Orange EV’s fully electric Class 8 terminal trucks at a number of distribution and manufacturing sites across North America. As the shipping and logistics industries increasingly move to embrace electrification, yard operations have proven to be an almost ideal use case

Actor James Norton, who stars in a new film telling the story of the world’s first “test-tube baby”, has criticised how “prohibitively expensive” IVF can be in the UK. In Joy, the star portrays the real-life scientist Bob Edwards, who – along with obstetrician Patrick Steptoe and embryologist Jean Purdy – spent a decade tirelessly

US actor Jussie Smollett, who was jailed for staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019, has successfully overturned his conviction. In 2021, a jury found the former star of the television drama Empire guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to 150 days in prison but served just

Rivian and VW have recently opened a partnership, despite the brands have very similar upcoming electric adventure vehicles with the Rivian R2 and VW Scout. But at a roundtable discussion with Rivian’s CEO RJ Scaringe, he said there’s more than enough room for the brands to coexist with each other. Recent news about Rivian and

A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2m (£4.9m) at an auction in New York. The conceptual art piece, called Comedian, became a viral sensation after Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan debuted it at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019. Festivalgoers tried to make out whether the single piece of fruit stuck to a

The voice actor behind Milhouse Van Houten – Bart Simpson’s very uncool friend – is stepping away after 35 years on the show. Pamela Hayden, who also voiced Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Janey and Malibu Stacy, will sign off from The Simpsons on 24 November in a Treehouse of Horror episode. “It’s been an honour

There are typically a few common factors that make it hard to enjoy a bit of speed, but unlike most electric scooters on the market, Ausom managed to get just right with their new Leopard DT1 pro scooter.  Of course, given that you’re in a safe area where it’s legal to get some speed going. Going fast

Tulisa Contostavlos has opened up about the moment she says her life “fell apart” after being “set up by a British newspaper” and charged with supplying drugs. The N-Dubz star has been speaking about her experiences in 2013 on the reality show, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! The charges against the singer were

Tesla has released a new navigation feature to make it easier for people towing trailers to find charging stations that can accommodate them. Towing trailers with electric vehicles is not yet super popular, but it is rapidly gaining in popularity, with more electric SUVs and pickup trucks having increasingly impressive towing capacity. Tesla has had

Movie fans are being warned they must not sing along to music in the new Wicked film. The movie, which features British singer and actress Cynthia Erivo and American star Ariana Grande, will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 22 November. However, according to an advisory video shown moments before the film in the

Volkswagen Group Africa has officially begun production of a modern electric farm tractor at its multifunctional facility in Gashora, Rwanda in a bid to advance modern, low-emission agricultural initiatives in Africa. Part of a larger Rwandan initiative called the GenFarm Project, the new VW tractor is part of a “holistic ecosystem” of electrified farming machinery set

Jaguar has left people scratching their heads with a new glossy advert which fails to show any cars. The British luxury vehicle maker has released a commercial featuring a series of models, in brightly-coloured clothing, emerging from a lift into an austere landscape. They are then seen in various poses as different slogans appear on

Xiaomi SU7 (Source: Xiaomi) China’s Xiaomi has reported a 30.5% growth in third-quarter revenue for its EV business, with the company also bumping up its yearly delivery target for the SU7 series EVs to 130,000 units. Back in May, Xiaomi – the world’s third-largest smartphone maker – had said that it planned to build 100,000

Zoe Ball is leaving her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show after six years. The 53-year-old, who recently lost her mother to cancer, will present her last show on Friday, 20 December. She said she was leaving to focus on family. Ball says she will remain part of the Radio 2 team and will give further

Kia’s upcoming entry-level EV has finally made its way to the famous Nurburgring for testing. The EV4 hatch was spotted ripping across the track, nearly on two wheels at one point, as Kia preps for its big debut. According to Kia, the EV4 is “an entirely new type of EV sedan. ” It was first

British actress Olivia Williams has said that in more than 30 years of acting on screen, starring in Dune: Prophecy is the first time she has felt confident her scenes would not be cut from a project. Williams, who has appeared in films including The Sixth Sense, Rushmore and An Education, and portrayed Camilla Parker

Owner-operators are a huge part of the heavy truck market, and they’ve been among the most hesitant groups to transition from diesel to electric semi trucks. That may be changing, however, as Saldivar’s Trucking becomes first independent owner-operator in the US to deploy a Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 truck. The higher up-front cost of

Davina McCall has made an “enormous leap forward in the last 24 hours”, her partner has said on her Instagram. In an update, her partner Michael Douglas, said: “Update folks. Thanks so much to all the well wishers. She really has made an enormous leap forward in the last 24 hours. She is out of

Daimler Truck North America has helped alcohol distributor Reyes Beverage Group deploy fully 29 zero-emission Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 electric semi trucks in its California delivery fleet. Reyes Beverage Group (RGB) plans to deploy the first twenty Freightliner electric semi trucks at its Golden Brands – East Bay and Harbor Distributing – Huntington Beach warehouses,

Built by Damen Shipyards and the first fully electric tugboat to be deployed in the Middle East, the new RSD-E Tug 2513 Bu Tinah put in its record-breaking performance took place at Khalifa Port during ADIPEC, the world’s largest energy conference. The RSD-E Tug 2513 is based on the already efficient hull design of the

Standard Glastonbury Festival tickets for 2025 sold out in less than half an hour after organisers adopted a new booking system. Organisers said: “Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply. There will be a resale of any cancelled or

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson says the health scare in June, which forced the postponement of his boxing match with Jake Paul, almost cost him his life. “I almost died in June,” Tyson wrote on X, adding that he “had 8 blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital”. The 58-year-old, who lost

Kubota says its new KATR farm tractor concept raises the bar in autonomous, zero-emission farming – and it looks like they’ve convinced others, too. The robot just won “Best of Innovation” at the CES Innovation Awards. Built as a follow-up to last year’s New Agri Concept electric autonomous farm tractor, the new Kubota KATR is a

Mark Webber’s role as Pulp’s fan club manager started simply enough, writing newsletters and posting out small bits of memorabilia such as postcards, stickers and badges. But, just like the band he loved, he wanted to do things a little differently. A balloon launch to drum up publicity in their hometown of Sheffield didn’t attract

On today’s informative episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got Honda engineers Jason Hwang and Emilio Sanchez to talk us through some of the things that make the GM Ultium-based Honda Prologue EV feel like a real Honda, and why that matters. Jason and Emilio talk about some of the choices they made to make the

Photo: Joint Office of Energy and Transportation The first EV charging hub funded by the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Program in the Eastern US is now online in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The town installed the region’s first DC fast chargers (four ports), along with four Level 2 chargers, at 59 North Main Street in South

Boy George is contemplating his relationship with fame. Intoxicating, often inescapable, he says he has not always found his decades in the spotlight easy There has been a cost, he says. Much has been well documented. But in recent years he has been able to enjoy it all much more. And it’s not real. “Fame

Tesla has announced that it will finally deliver 500 kW charging as it is about to install its long-awaited V4 Supercharger cabinets. The rollout of Supercharger V4 has been a strange one, to say the least. Tesla has been deploying the new charging stations for two years and calling them “Supercharger V4”, but it has

Stars have rushed to share their support after Davina McCall revealed she’s undergoing surgery to remove a rare brain tumour. The presenter shared the news in a short Instagram video, telling fans the benign tumour is called a colloid cyst and is around 14mm wide. McCall explained it “needed to come out, because if it

Davina McCall has revealed she is undergoing a brain operation after doctors discovered a benign tumour. The 57-year-old television presenter said in a video posted on Instagram that the tumour was a colloid cyst, which she described as “very rare”. She said the chances of having it were “three in a million,” and she had