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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
Bill payers are being urged to submit a meter reading as household energy prices rise by thirteen per cent on Wednesday.
Anyone affected by regulator Ofgem’s price cap without a smart meter should take a reading to avoid being charged at the higher rate. Analysts at Cornwall Insight say these prices, driven by gas costs and the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, will persist into winter.
Retailers including Amazon, Argos and Currys have been found advertising e-scooters for public roads, despite this being against UK law.
A Press Association investigation found major brands promoting their use on roads, though only rented e-scooters are legal. Privately-owned e-scooters can only be used on private land with landowner’s permission. The major outlets changed their advertising after being contacted.
A three-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble six days after devastating earthquakes in Venezuela.
Video footage shows rescuers cheering as Klieber Morán is pulled from wreckage in La Guaira state. The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to help thousands injured, with fifteen UK aid agencies including the British Red Cross asking the public to donate.
The voice of the late actor Gene Wilder has been recreated using AI for a new Willy Wonka-themed reality show on Netflix.
The streaming service partnered with ElevenLabs, a firm specialising in voice cloning technology, to revive the voice of Wilder, who died in 2016 aged eighty-three. The actor famously played the title character in the 1971 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel.
Britain has invented some genuinely world-changing things. The World Wide Web. The telephone. The jet engine. The light bulb. Chocolate bars that mysteriously shrink every year. But while the big inventions get all the attention, there are loads of underrated British creations that quietly made everyday life better without getting the recognition they deserve. And Gen X grew up surrounded by many of them. Some were practical. Some were strange. […]
