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The government cuts subsidies for buyers of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, raising fears prices will rise and sales fall.
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BBC News
- Car groups condemn grant cuts for electric and hybrid vehiclesThe government cuts subsidies for buyers of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, raising fears prices will rise and sales fall.
The Guardian
- Kent motorway to shut as work begins on possible post-Brexit lorry parkM26’s closure for site surveys angers local MP, amid wider concerns in Tory ranks about May’s Brexit plans
The Independent
- Government slashes grants for new hybrid and electric cars angering motoring groupsGrants for new hybrid and electric cars will be slashed in a move which has angered motoring groups.
Times Online
- Green grants for hybrid cars axed [Subscription]Grants paid to drivers who buy non-polluting cars are to be slashed in what campaigners say is a blow to efforts to clean up Britain’s roads.
- Work begins to turn M26 into lorry park for no-deal Brexit [subscription]A senior Conservative MP accused ministers of secretly pushing ahead with a plan to turn the M26 into a car park to hold lorries in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
- Pothole car damage more than doublesDamage to cars from potholes has more than doubled in 12 years because of the “steady deterioration” of roads.
Sky News
- Car groups hit out over government cuts to grants for electric and hybrid vehiclesThe AA and RAC say the Department for Transport's decision to reduce grants for car buyers will put them off "going green".
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