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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    Ask the Expert: Is low mileage a bad idea in a Fiat 500 Hybrid?

    We are looking at replacing my wife’s much loved Fiat 500. It has a straightforward petrol engine but the new versions are hybrids. She drives about 3,000 miles a year, mostly local journeys of 10 miles or less. You recently warned that a manufacturer (not Fiat) advised that their hybrid cars should be run continuously for at least an hour a week to charge the starter battery. Clearly this would not suit my wife’s needs and I am concerned that the battery will flatten and we’ll be unable to star

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Frank Field, former Labour minister, dies aged 81

    Frank Field, the former Labour minister and crossbench peer, has died aged 81, his family has announced.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Expansion of funded childcare could ‘jeopardise’ quality of provision, watchdog warns

    Uncertainties remain over whether the early years sector can expand and deliver enough places ahead of September 2025, the National Audit Office said.

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  • NewsHerald Scotland

    Two officers taken to hospital after police car in crash during chase

    Two police officers were taken to hospital after their vehicle was involved in a crash with a van during a pursuit.

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  • NewsAFP

    Italy marks fascist defeat amid TV censorship row

    Italy celebrates its liberation from Fascism on Thursday, an anniversary overshadowed by a censorship row at the public broadcaster centred on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's far-right roots.Meloni herself, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, denied censorship on her part -- and responded to the row by posting Scurati's monologue on her Facebook account.

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  • NewsEdinburgh Live

    West Lothian NHS worker terrified after feral teens 'bite her knee' in horror bus attack

    Diane Hawthorn was on her way home from after finishing a shift at St John's Hospital when a group of young teens allegedly carried out a feral attack on the bus in Whitburn.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Mystery of Plato’s final resting place solved after ‘bionic eye’ penetrates 2,000-year-old scroll

    The mystery of Plato’s final resting place appears to have been solved after advanced scanning techniques dubbed a “bionic eye” were able to penetrate a 2,000-year-old carbonised scroll.

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