Starting April 1st, alterations to Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) will impact thousands of electric car owners

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The new system at Manchester Airport for drop-offs and pick-ups is being introduced to reduce congestion and improve traffic flow, but not all passengers are happy with the change

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Manchester Airport has announced a shake-up in its parking system

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Drivers will no longer have to stop and pay when they exit the car park

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The change comes following criticism that private car parking companies are using misleading and confusing signs, aggressive debt collection and unreasonable fees.

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Her track Goodbye Horses soundtracked one of the 90s thriller’s most memorable scenes, but the singer ended up driving cabs and dying in obscurity. Now a new documentary lets her tell her storyIn August 2019, the New York film-maker Eva Aridjis Fuentes embarked on a cab ride that would change her life. Though her driver sported sunglasses and a turban, Aridjis Fuentes thought she looked eerily familiar. “The driver played Neil Young’s Harvest album in its entirety; we sang Heart of Gold together. I asked if she’d ever seen Neil play. She said: ‘Oh no, my concert days are long over’. So then I asked if she’d ever seen Q Lazzarus.”Q Lazzarus was the stage name of Diane Luckey, a singer from the 80s whose song Goodbye Horses had soundtracked Buffalo Bill’s infamous nipple-tweaking scene in The Silence of the Lambs. The track became a cult classic, covered by Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, Deftones’ Chino Moreno and MGMT among others. Q vanished in the mid-90s, with many, including fri...

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