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DVLA confirms £10,000 car tax rule change for drivers in UK

DVLA confirms £10,000 car tax rule change for drivers in UK

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The DVLA has confirmed a new £50,000 car tax rule which changed back in April. The DVLA has taken to X, formerly Twitter, to remind those buying an electric car priced over £50,000 are liable to pay the Expensive Car Supplement (ECS). The ECS is an additional £425 fee applied to costly vehicles. The rule used to affect cars over £40k, but from April this was changed, with cars with a list price between £40,000 and £50,000 now exempt from the extra charge. Under the updates, only cars listed above £50,000 will pay the fee, which has increased to £440 per year from 2026. The DVLA confirmed the change as they reminded drivers about the crucial change through social media. READ MORE Next bank holiday brought forward with bonus one in June confirmed The DVLA posted on X: “Buying an electric car? Electric cars priced £50,000 or under are no longer subject to the expensive car supplement if they were first registered from 1 April 2025.” In their November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook, the …

Sainsbury’s stops selling brown eggs – a new supermarket rule, white s | UK | News

Sainsbury’s stops selling brown eggs – a new supermarket rule, white s | UK | News

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Sainsbury’s sparked huge consumer backlash this week by banning brown eggs from its supermarket shelves in a major shift toward selling only white-shelled varieties. The controversial move is driven by the retailer’s aggressive Net Zero targets, as white-egg-laying birds are said to be more efficient and require less environmental feed. Experts have stepped in to explain the biology of what makes eggs brown, reassuring shoppers that shell colour is purely down to the chicken breed. Consumer groups are highly critical, warning that the sudden white egg rule isolates traditional shoppers who associate brown shells with better quality. British farmers are divided over the supply chain overhaul, as many are forced to rapidly transition their entire poultry farming operations to meet the new white-egg mandate. Source link

Resident in luxury Croydon tower block claims discrimination over bike rule

Resident in luxury Croydon tower block claims discrimination over bike rule

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During a visit to Altura 50, which asset management company Compass Rock International has recently taken over, David showed the LDRS that only 78 of the 239 cycle parking spaces designated for residents were accessible at the time. The LDRS observed that one of the main cycle storage hubs in the basement was locked and being used to store furniture, paint and maintenance equipment, while two others were inaccessible to residents at the time of the visit. Source link

Morrisons becomes first UK supermarket to introduce new rule at all 500 stores | UK | News

Morrisons becomes first UK supermarket to introduce new rule at all 500 stores | UK | News

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Shoppers enter a branch of Morrisons on November 18, 2015 in Bristol, England (Image: Matt Cardy, Getty Images) Morrisons has made history by becoming the first major supermarket chain to roll out a new toilet policy across its UK stores. The retailer, which operates just under 500 sites nationwide, has confirmed the installation of male sanitary bins in customer toilets throughout all its branches. With this move, Morrisons claims to be the first supermarket to meet “The Bog Standard” criteria, established by phs Group and Prostate Cancer UK to assist organisations in providing essential support for men experiencing incontinence, including many who have undergone life-saving prostate cancer treatment. The supermarket says the changes were prompted by customer feedback, “alongside its broader commitment to continuously improving accessibility and inclusive facilities for all customers”. The announcement has been met with widespread praise from shoppers online, with many expressing the same sentiment – “well done” to Morrisons. One customer wrote: “My father needed such facilities after having a stoma for stage 4 bowel cancer, it used to be …

Is My UK Passport Valid For EU Travel? 10-Year Rule Check

Is My UK Passport Valid For EU Travel? 10-Year Rule Check

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The EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) rules recently came into force, which left some UK fliers queueing for hours and even missing flights amidst airport chaos. This is meant to lead into the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), which will mean non-EU nationals hoping for a short stay in Schengen countries will have to apply to do so online. But there’s a lesser-known rule already in place that could affect UK passengers flying abroad, which Nick Caunter, the managing director of Airport Parking and Hotels, dubbed the ’10-year passport rule’. What is the 10-year passport rule? To travel to the EU and Schengen countries, UK fliers’ passports need to be under 10 years old at the time of arrival. This change came about after Brexit. And UK passports need to have at least three months remaining before they expire while travelling to these countries, too. If your passport was issued after 2018, it won’t stay valid for more than 10 years anyway, the Post Office explained. They’re usually valid for a decade exactly, meaning …

Brazil and Italy rule out Ebola in previously suspected cases amid scramble to contain outbreak

Brazil and Italy rule out Ebola in previously suspected cases amid scramble to contain outbreak

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The World Health Organization’s leader traveled to the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the weekend, as suspected cases and deaths continue to mount. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, visited Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, and on Monday was expected to meet with the country’s president. More than 1,100 cases are suspected in what has quickly become the third-largest Ebola outbreak since the virus was discovered half a century ago. More than 350 deaths are suspected. No cases have been confirmed outside of Congo and neighboring Uganda. Ebola tests came back negative on Sunday and Monday for two patients in Brazil — one in Rio de Janeiro and the other in São Paulo — who doctors had suspected might have Ebola. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visits health workers at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, Congo.Moses Sawasawa / AP Echoing the fears of many global health experts and doctors, the …

Rule of law – POLITICO

Rule of law – POLITICO

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And on that front, Europe has an advantage. Speaking at a global real-estate conference recently, I was struck by a recurring theme: the European continent as a safe haven. Real estate is, of course, a long-term kind of business. Real-estate investors have to have faith in the neighborhoods, cities, countries they’re buying properties in. And as the conference went on, executive after executive returned to Europe as a safe place to do business in because — well, because it’s true. Rule of law is regressing all over the world. According to the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index, nearly seven in 10 countries saw a decline in rule of law in 2025. This, the World Justice Project notes, is connected to growing authoritarianism. Europe, though, is standing strong: Denmark leads the ranking, followed by Norway, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands and Australia. Places 11 through 20 are also occupied by European countries, along with Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. The U.S. comes in 27th. For businesses, rule of law …

Poll of judges, lawyers sees grave Trump threat to rule of law

Poll of judges, lawyers sees grave Trump threat to rule of law

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Sometimes it seems as though the only thing that stands between a functioning democracy and a full-on Trump autocracy is a thin, black-robed line. Although the Supreme Court, in general, and conservative appellate courts, in particular, have bowed and granted President Trump permission to do pretty much anything he wants, they haven’t thoroughly capitulated to his endless grasping for ever more power. (The way invertebrate congressional Republicans have.) At the lower-court level, judges have repeatedly ruled in ways intended to check Trump, most notably when it comes to violating civil and constitutional rights in pursuit of his indiscriminate immigration dragnet. The tendency to slow-walk his administration’s response to those rulings — and ignore others that Trump thinks he can safely snub — only contribute to the perception of presidential lawlessness and a sense that our judicial system is being strained to something approaching a breaking point. Go ahead, if you’d like, and dismiss those concerns as just so much overwrought hand-wringing, or the mindless anti-Trump blathering of your friendly political columnist. A new survey of …