Welsh government is very unlikely to see £7.35m it spent on an ill-fated Circuit of Wales racetrack project, it has told the BBC.
Officials say there is “little chance” of getting it back from the insolvent company behind the £433M Circuit of Wales after the project fell apart in 2017 when the Welsh government rejected a request to guarantee almost half its funding after it discovered there were inflated claims about job creation and Welsh Government officials had made “inexplicable decisions” about public money expenditure.
Welsh Conservatives have backed local Labour councils who have rejected the Welsh Government’s proposed pavement parking law, which has now been put back 12 months.
The opposition party in the Senedd said the Welsh Government was pushing out pet projects such as the 20mph urban speed limit without consulting councils who were now too busy to implement another project to stop pavement parking while councils wanted money to improve pavements for all users.
The father of a cyclist killed by a driver who failed to brake or swerve before the fatal crash said the decision to spare him jail was a farce.
Tony Jones said his family’s lives were torn apart when his son and father of two, David, 41, was killed on Crack Hill, near Bridgend in May 2020 by a former professional driver, Raymond Treharne, 74, who was given a nine-month suspended sentence and a seven-year driving ban for causing death by careless driving last month following Ministry of Justice sentencing guidelines while independent judges decided sentences.
The DVLA contact centre will be closed Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday with limited normal opening on Saturday.
The on-line services continue throughout the holiday period.
The Toyota Prius’s status as the pioneer that paved the way for today’s electrified vehicle market has been recognised with a lifetime achievement award in the TopGear.com Electric Awards 2023.
First introduced in Japan in 1997 and launched in the UK in 2000, the original Prius introduced the world to the concept of hybrid electric technology and a cleaner, more efficient and user-friendly alternative powertrain.
The next electric MINI (above) will go into production in Germany in November in two and all wheel drive.
The MINI Countryman is the first of the brand to built in Leipzig and follows the MINI PHEV brought to market in 2017.
Hyundai Motor Company’s C IONIQ 6 Electrified Streamliner has won the prestigious World Car of the Year, World Electric Vehicle and World Car Design of the Year, lauded by an international jury for its unique aerodynamic design and outstanding all-electric range.
World Car Awards revealed the results at a ceremony held at the New York International Auto Show yesterday and it follows the IONIQ 5 winning the same trio of awards 12 months ago.
Motorists have told researchers for Scrap Car Comparison that the most confusing manoeuvre they perform is parallel parking between vehicles.
Bay parking and doing an emergency stop are the next most unpopular procedures.