Boy, 15, who stole car with kids inside sentenced - and his mum hit with parenting order
The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, stole a Nissan Note from Bournville while brothers, aged two and four, were sitting in the back
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A teenager who stole a car with two young children inside has been handed a last chance community sentence - while his mother has also received a court order.
New Grant man killed in crash, woman injured
Dead is Paul Anton Andrews, who lived in the area.
The initial police report said the crash happened at about 8.20 am at Busy Corner, Brother’s Road, where he was in the back seat of a white Nissan B14 car.
A woman was driving a Nissan Note in the opposite direction. She was the lone occupant.
The cars collided, killing Andrews and injuring the woman. She was taken to the Princes Town district health facility.
Details were sketchy up to Thursday afternoon.
Tableland police are investigating.
Car fire deliberate say authorities Picture: Charlie Fountain A CAR fire in Monmouthshire is being treated as deliberate by authorities. The vehicle, believed to have been a Nissan Note, was set alight at the National Trust Car Park in Clytha, near Raglan. The incident occurred shortly after 6am this morning. Gwent Police and South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS) attended the scene. The car was still ablaze when fire crews arrived. A SWFRS spokesperson said: At approximately 6:04am on Tuesday, May 4, we received reports of a vehicle fire on Clytha Road, Clytha. Crews from Abergavenny station attended the scene and extinguished the fire.
Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: deliver us from model railways
Tony Archer practised male bonding over his train set, while Alice has walked out on husband and baby, hopefully to dry out
The scriptwriters ‘kill us for their sport’. Photograph: Jeff Dalton/Alamy
The scriptwriters ‘kill us for their sport’. Photograph: Jeff Dalton/Alamy
Fri 30 Apr 2021 07.13 EDT
There have been times these past weeks when The Archers has been almost too traumatic to hear. I refer, of course, to the upsetting scenes in which Tony Archer, Ambridge’s dreariest man, practised male bonding over his model railway with Helen’s boyfriend, Lee, causing the latter to confess to a weakness for superhero figurines.
Let s take a deep dive into Nissan s coolest tech.
All of Nissan s models will be electrified by the early 2030s. That was the statement from the Japanese automaker back in January, but it has been working on reducing its carbon footprint well before that. It sped up with the Nissan Note compact car in 2016, which used a technology called e-Power.
Now in its second generation, Nissan called the updated e-Power system a gasoline engine breakthrough in February as it reached 50% thermal efficiency when most engines are around 20%. But what is e-Power?
Basically, it s a powertrain that features a small (1.2-liter) gasoline engine/generator that exists only to charge a battery. Most systems use both the engine and electric motor to drive the wheels but with e-Power, the engine charges a battery, which powers an electric motor, moving the car. e-Power offers one-pedal driving, which means as you let off the accelerator, the car will come to a stop. It seems weird at first, but on oth