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Updated A search has been launched to find the highest-mileage car in the UK. For many drivers a high mileage is something to be avoided for fear it will devalue the car and lead to big bills. But for others having their car rack up miles is a badge of honour, showing how resilient and reliable their vehicle is. Now a new magazine dedicated to cheap cars is trying to locate the examples which take this to extremes. Bargain Cars has launched the search for cars with spaceship miles after its te...

Updated A search has been launched to find the highest-mileage car in the UK. For many drivers a high mileage is something to be avoided for fear it will devalue the car and lead to big bills. But for others having their car rack up miles is a badge of honour, showing how resilient and reliable their vehicle is. Now a new magazine dedicated to cheap cars is trying to locate the examples which take this to extremes. Bargain Cars has launched the search for cars with spaceship miles after its te...

Updated A search has been launched to find the highest-mileage car in the UK. For many drivers a high mileage is something to be avoided for fear it will devalue the car and lead to big bills. But for others having their car rack up miles is a badge of honour, showing how resilient and reliable their vehicle is. Now a new magazine dedicated to cheap cars is trying to locate the examples which take this to extremes. Bargain Cars has launched the search for cars with spaceship miles after its te...

Anglian Water spends £300m to clean up rivers The initiative aims to reduce the amount of phosphorus that enters the environment through water sources Image: Shutterstock Some of East England’s chalk rivers are set to benefit from Anglian Water‘s new £300 million investment in restoration projects. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has greenlighted a raft of schemes aimed at reducing the amount of phosphorus that enters the environment through streams. Phosp...

Anglian Water is to spend £300m cleaning rivers and streams across the region. - Credit: Anglian Water Anglian Water is to spend £300million cleaning up rivers and streams across the region in a bid to make them more attractive for wildlife. The company has been given the green light by Defra to begin work on more than 200 environmental schemes, a year earlier than planned. Much of the work will support the region’s unique chalk stream habitats and will come at no extra cost to customers....

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlist announced 27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read NZ Herald The longlist for New Zealands most prestigious book awards has now been released - with more than a dozen first-time authors making the cut. Books exploring issues of identity, domestic life, war, food, our natural world and our people are among the 40 works of poetry, prose and non-fiction longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today. The works were selected from ...

Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) reportedly pepper-sprayed a man who accosted him over the city's COVID-19 guidelines outside of a restaurant on Sunday.

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Ted Wheeler Blasts Man With Pepper Spray After He Confronts Him For Not Wearing Mask On 1/26/21 at 6:07 AM EST Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler blasted an unmasked man with pepper spray after he accosted him and former mayor Sam Adams with a video camera on Sunday night, police said. The two officials had just finished dinner at the McMenamins Hillsdale Brewery & Public House on Southwest Sunset Boulevard around 8 p.m. when a man described as middle-aged accused Wheeler of dining without a mask, acco...

Portland mayor pepper sprays Alpenrose dairy heir filming him Wheeler said maskless man would not step back outside Southwest Portland restaurant. Mayor Ted Wheeler on Sunday evening pepper-sprayed a man who was making a video of him, telling police later that the man was maskless and would not back away. Asked about the incident at a press conference Monday morning, Wheeler summarized the incident, and the Portland Police Bureau disclosed a police report about it later in the day. I...