Katie Price’s fiance has been charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting language or behaviour. Carl Woods was arrested following an alleged incident in Essex in August. A police statement said: “A man arrested following an incident in Little Canfield, on August 23 2021, has been charged. “Carl Woods, 33, of Dunmow Road, Little Canfield, has
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed that it opened an investigation into Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem under Autopilot. It’s an issue that owners have complained about for almost a year. Back in November, Electrek released a report called ‘Tesla has a serious phantom braking problem in Autopilot.‘ It highlighted a significant increase in
Rapper Lil Wayne is set to perform his first UK show in almost a decade-and-a-half, after visa issues prevented from previously entering the country. The multi-Grammy winning rapper will perform at the Strawberries & Creem festival in Cambridge in June. In December 2020, Lil Wayne, real name Dwayne Michael Carter, admitted possessing a .45 calibre
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Swedish electric boat manufacturer Candela is no stranger to taking flight in its hydrofoil electric boats. But today’s announcement marks new ground as the company’s upcoming Candela C-8 takes its maiden voyage before serial production begins later this year. Candela C-8 takes flight The Candela C-8 has had a whirlwind development schedule so far, speeding
Coachella, one of the biggest and most popular music festivals in the world, will not be requiring ticket-holders to be vaccinated, wear masks or test negative at the 2022 event, organisers have said. The eased restrictions for the event, which is among the first to make such a change, conform with state guidance, organisers added,
Looking for a new film or TV boxset to start this weekend? This is our guide to what’s new and coming up. Featuring our biggest celebrity interviews of the week, our Backstage entertainment review also includes details of the other new and noteworthy works coming to your screens. Severance – Apple TV+, out now Directed
Ukraine’s newly chosen Eurovision act has been suspended, amid claims she travelled to the Russian-controlled Crimea in 2015. Alina Pash is facing scrutiny from Ukraine’s national broadcaster for the trip she was said to have made seven years ago, and now faces a nervous wait to see if she will represent her country at the
It was Tim Robbins’ Andy Dufresne who pulled off the big screen’s most famous prison break, the wrongly jailed innocent man who “crawled through a river of s*** and came out clean on the other side”. But it was Morgan Freeman and that famous voice, deep and calming, instantly recognisable, who told his story. Almost
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Journalist and political satirist PJ O’Rourke, has died. The American writer and best-selling author who rose to fame as editor-in-chief of the now-defunct satirical magazine National Lampoon, was 74. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Morgan Entrekin CEO of Grove Atlantic, a New York-based publisher of his books, described him as “one of the
Elon Musk might have actually followed through with the supposedly “world hunger-ending donation” that he questioned last year as Tesla reveals he has donated billions worth of shares over the last few months. Though the recipient of the giant donation worth almost $6 billion hasn’t been revealed. Last year, Musk took to Twitter to say that
Naomi Campbell has confirmed her baby daughter is not adopted and described her as the “biggest blessing” she could ever imagine. The 51-year-old supermodel announced she had become a mother in May 2021. Having kept the news private beforehand, it led to speculation the little girl had been adopted. But in a new British Vogue
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Elon Musk put its support behind the notion that Tesla’s current legal and regulatory troubles with several government agencies are due to the company’s disruptiveness in several industries, lack of paying for ads, and lack of political contributions. The comment dismisses some serious accusations as just repercussions for Tesla angering the wrong people. Over the
The latest trailer for the Doctor Strange sequel dropped during the Super Bowl ad breaks, teasing a number of new characters as well as some we may have seen before. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness picks up after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which Strange himself accidently opened Marvel’s multiverse
Coleen Rooney has lost a bid to bring a High Court claim against Rebekah Vardy’s agent as part of a legal battle between the footballers’ wives over an online post. Mrs Vardy, 39, sued Mrs Rooney, 35, for libel after she publicly accused her of leaking stories about her private life to The Sun. The
This week on Electrek’s new Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This week that includes new data about how electric bikes offer real exercise benefits, new electric bike models and testing, Harley-Davidson’s next upcoming electric motorcycle, a new electric scooter from
Porsche isn’t playing around when it comes to electric bikes. Not only has the German automaker already launched its own line of electric bicycles, but now we’re getting word that Porsche has bought up yet another company in the e-bike industry. This time Porsche set its sights on a company known as Fazua. You may
Broadcaster Kate Garraway has said she is finding a “new way to be in love” with her husband as he recovers from coronavirus. Derek Draper, a 54-year-old former political adviser, contracted COVID-19 in March 2020 and spent 13 months in hospital before finally being allowed home. While he is now free of the virus, his