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Day: November 6, 2025
EV drivers would face charge of 3p a mile on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars
Rachel Reeves is drawing up plans for a new pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles to announce in this month’s budget worth an extra £250 a year on average, according to reports.
Under the plans expected to be announced on 26 November, EV drivers would face a new charge of 3p a mile on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars as drivers switch to greener options.
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President Trump is hesitant to launch an attack to remove Venezuela’s President Maduro from power, fearing the operation may not succeed.
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Latest inquest rejects previously found ‘very strong suspicion’ that a member of Strobel’s traveling party was involved in her death near a Lismore campground
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An inquest has found German backpacker Simone Strobel died by homicide in northern New South Wales, but was unable to say who killed her. It has recommended police undertake further analysis of two unmatched DNA samples recovered during the original investigation.
The NSW state coroner, Teresa O’Sullivan, delivered her findings on Thursday into Strobel’s 2005 death in Lismore in the state’s northern rivers.