Images show smoke over Billericay High Street as residents report a "minibus on fire behind the fish and chip shop".
Billericay High Street is currently facing a third fire in the last month and few days as residents report smoke billowing over the popular and busy street.
Fire - Smoke over Billericay High Street (Image: William Smith)
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A former top Post Office lawyer who oversaw Alan Bates’s High Court battle against the business is refusing to co-operate with the statutory inquiry.
Car salesmen face a shortage of petrol vehicles under Rishi Sunak’s net zero crackdown, one of Britain’s biggest dealership chains has warned.
Consumer interest in EVs has fallen for the first time in three years, according to the J.D. Power US Electric Vehicle Consideration Study. Some of the reasons cited in the study are concerns over charging infrastructure and range anxiety. Yahoo Finance Reporter Pras Subramanian joins Market Domination to break down the report and what it means for the EV market moving forward. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino
EY has been sued by a former employee who claims he was sacked by the Big Four accountant after taking holiday for his wedding.
Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, BP, Texaco, Shell and Esso petrol stations face strict financial penalties with the new '30 minute' rule.
When L’Escargot, one of London’s oldest French restaurants, reopened after a refurbishment last year it wasn’t just the interiors that were different.
Ex-president at Mar-a-Lago last month hosted more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum
The US oil giant Chevron has announced it will quit the North Sea after 55 years, the day after Jeremy Hunt turned down industry pleas for support at a private meeting.
Scottish Widows said 78% of people with a defined contribution pension dipped into their pots early, withdrawing £47,000 on average.
The website has written to consumers in the UK over the need to brush up on changes to its user agreement as we approach the sixth month of the year.
In fact, we think you can do a pretty good job of updating your space with the right free garden ideas. While there's nothing quite so pleasing as a spot of horticultural therapy, the ongoing cost-of-living crisis means that we have grown incredibly fond of a budget garden idea (and even fonder of a totally free garden idea, too). Thank goodness, then, that the hottest garden trends are so very purse-friendly.
The early timing of Biden’s move, changing supply chains and national security fears suggest the tariffs might work this time, at least for a while.
This under-the-radar value stock could do well on the back of the huge global build-out of data centres in the years ahead, says Edward Sheldon. The post This £3 value stock could soar in the AI boom appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway built a 6.4% stake in Chubb in under nine months, and also slashed its Apple bet by 13% last quarter.
Family bring long-established business to market with 'mixed emotions'
Google on Thursday asked that a judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising. To bolster its case, the tech giant wrote a multimillion-dollar check to the U.S. government that it says renders moot the government's best argument for demanding a jury trial. The antitrust case set to go before a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, in September is one of two major lawsuits the Justice Department has brought against Google.
in the Nordic region, backing Swedish IF Metall's mechanics who have been on strike since last year, demanding a collective agreement covering wages and other conditions. to make access to licence plates for new vehicles more difficult.
China said on Thursday that U.S. and European assertions of excess capacity were "naked trade protectionism" and that efforts to constrain new energy exports from the World's No.2 economy would frustrate global efforts to tackle climate change. Growing alarm over Chinese industrial overcapacity flooding the European Union with cheap products is opening a new front in the West's trade war with Beijing, which kicked off with Washington's import tariffs in 2018. "A country cannot be labelled as having excess capacity just because it has more capacity than it needs," He Yadong, a Commerce Ministry spokesperson said.
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