Manchester City host Bayern Munich on Tuesday night in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
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The first of a new fleet of 15 electric vans has arrived at Bury Council to help cut the borough’s carbon emissions. The new vehicles are part of a £10M plan to renew the local authorty’s fleet, bringing greener and more efficient vehicles to the council’s operational services department.
The council is also looking at a low carbon fuel source for its other vehicles. Bury Council has also appointed electric vehicle (EV) charging network Be.EV to install more than 30 new EV charging points across their land. The new infrastructure will be part of the Be.EV public charging network, the largest across the North West.
The council said most of the chargers will be rapid or ultra-rapid, which can charge a typical EV to 80 per cent in 20 minutes to an hour, compared to four to six hours on a 7kW fast charger. The new points will be primarily in convenient destination areas such as town centre car parks.
The new vans are estimated to cut 1,450kg of CO2 per vehicle per year or 21.75 tonnes per year once all the vehicles are in service. Coun Alan Quinn, cabinet member for the environment, climate change and operations, said: “We’re making major investment in our fleet which will replace unreliable ageing vehicles and provide a better service to residents.
“We’re committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2038. As transport emissions make up a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions, we need to make the transition to cleaner transport, and electric vehicles will play an important part in that.”
By allowing use of council owned land for Be.EV to expand their public charging network the council will get rental income from the charge points. Be.EV is Transport for Greater Manchester’s preferred charging partner.
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Manchester City host Bayern Munich on Tuesday night in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
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The small venue was threatened by a noise complaint in 2021 from a new resident who had moved to Manchester during lockdown. It came after the venue won a hard-fought battle against a separate noise complaint back in 2014.Amid months of petitioning and fundraising for the venue and messages of support from acts local to or with strong connections to Manchester including Elbow’s Guy Garvey and The 1975’s Matty Healy doing the rounds, Night & Day remains in danger of closure due to a planning file for the redevelopment of a nearby building.In November, a court heard that the closure of Night & Day Cafe would be a “national scandal”.Night & Day now return to court to continue to appeal the notice, with a two date hearing starting on March 21 at Manchester Magistrates Court.At this hearing, the judge will decide whether to uphold or drop the notice and the venue will hear the judge’s decision sometime after.Breaking!! Night & Day Returns to Courthttps://t.co/B0rAUYGoO0@AndyBurnhamGM @bevcraig @Sacha_Lord @joanneroney— Night & Day Cafe (@nightanddaycafe) March 16, 2023Venue owner Jennifer Smithson – who owns the venue alongside her husband Ben – said: “We believe that the source of this issue is that when MCC Planning approved the building of flats next to Night & Day there was no consideration to the neighbouring pre-existing music venue.“Consideration of noise was one of the planning conditions specified by MCC Planning department with the developer and is held on public record at MCC Planning portal.”She continued: “An initial acoustic report recommended that an additional second report be conducted that addressed any noise ingress from the venue into the flat.