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Lisa Marie Presley kept her dead son on dry ice for two months before finally arranging his funeral, a new memoir has revealed. Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, kept her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, at home with her rather than keeping him at the morgue after he died by suicide in

Oscar-winning filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen hopes his new film will get “people off their iPhones” and “refocus our gaze” on what war is like for the children who live through it. His new movie Blitz, set in wartime London and starring Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, will open this year’s London Film Festival later today. In

Earlier today, global mining giant Fortescue announced plans to begin operations at its new Detroit factory with the production of HV marine batteries that will be used initially by EVOA to power a range of luxury marine vessels, wake boats, and tenders — and they’ve come to Quick Charge to tell us all about it!

Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner in her own right, has died at 91. Houston, who sang back-up for Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley, died on Monday morning surrounded by family in her New Jersey home. She had been under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter-in-law

Designed for both all-terrain and off-road use, the all-electric E313 telehandler from JLG is a new, low-noise solution for moving materials around indoor construction, urban, residential, and municipal projects. With a 3,500-pound maximum lift capacity and 13-foot maximum lift height with a five foot forward reach, the new JLG E313 is a first-of-its-kind all electric

Gary Lineker has laughed off rumours about his future as presenter of Match Of The Day – revealing contract talks with the BBC have “just started”. The corporation last week denied an announcement was pending regarding its highest-paid star, who is under contract until the end of the football season. MailOnline reported it had seen

It’s probably nothing. Just a playful post on social media from a random Volvo account celebrating an obscure concept car from the early aughts. It couldn’t possibly mean that Volvo is actually going to build the thing … right? The post in question went live on the Volvo Cars Heritage Facebook feed last week, and

Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker has said in a “very sad announcement” that he is quitting both of his BBC music programmes because of ill health. Walker, who has been a broadcaster for 58 years, will step down towards the end of this month from his Sunday afternoon show Sounds Of The 70s and The

Lease deals get all the hype, but some people still want to own the car they’ve made all those payments on. If that’s you, and you’ve been waiting for interest rates to drop, you’re in luck: there’s a bunch of great plugin cars you can buy with 0% financing this month! As I was putting

Actor Adam Pearson, who has a disfiguring facial condition, wants to help others learn about such differences as he plays a man with the same illness in his latest film. The British star, 39, has neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition that causes tumours, which are most often benign, to grow along your nerves.

Drive Electric Week kicked off last Saturday with nearly 200 online and in-person events celebrating electric vehicles, and it continues this weekend with events through Sunday, October 6. Drive Electric Week is an annual event organized by Plug In America, the Electric Vehicle Association, EVHybridNoire, Drive Electric USA, and the Sierra Club. This is the event’s 14th year. It started in

Donald Glover has cancelled the remainder of his Childish Gambino tour due to a health issue. The American actor, comedian, and singer was set to head to the UK in November and early December to perform in Manchester, Glasgow, London, and Birmingham, as well as Dublin in Ireland. He had already postponed the remainder of

Global mining and metals company Fortescue is driving the technology behind massive, all electric heavy equipment solutions with an all-new 6 MW DC fast charger that can charge this massive haul truck’s 1,900 kWh battery in less than thirty minutes. (!) Jointly developed by Fortescue and heavy equipment giants Liebherr, the 6 MW (6000 kW)

Ian Hislop has joked there was one “high point” of being involved in an incident initially thought to be a shooting earlier this week. The Private Eye editor was travelling in a black taxi near the magazine’s office in Soho, central London, on Tuesday when the rear window of the vehicle smashed. It was initially

Source: Tesla Over ten months after deliveries started, Tesla is now taking configurations for the non-Foundation series Cybertruck. The first Cybertruck deliveries occurred on November 30th last year, so we’re just over ten months past that date. As it often does, Tesla started fulfilling deliveries from the top down – it shipped higher-optioned, limited-edition models first,

Noel Gallagher has made a surprise appearance at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards to honour “one of my best friends” Jill Furmanovsky with a special icon award. The Oasis star described the music photographer, who has captured some of the world’s biggest stars on camera in a career spanning more than 50 years, as

Lucid’s luxury EV is now more affordable than ever. With up to $15,000 in savings on 2024 Lucid Air Pure models, lease prices have dropped below $550 per month. Lucid Air lease prices are cheaper than ever Since delivering its first EV, the Air Dream Edition, in 2021, Lucid continues making its vehicles more efficient

Presenter Stephen Mulhern says he is “absolutely mortified” to learn that tenants in a bungalow he owns in Leicester have been living in damp and mouldy conditions. The 47-year-old star owns a property firm called JFDI Productions, which rents out several houses and is worth over £4m according to company filings. One of the tenants

On today’s electrifying episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got Sylvie Binder from the New York City Mayor’s Office here to tell us about the newly launched North American Electric Construction Coalition (NAECC) is committed to decarbonizing the construction industry, and NYC is already making serious headway. Timed perfectly to hit the news cycle at the

“I still have panic attacks now.” Claire (not her real name), a disabled mum in her 30s, never imagined she’d ever face criminal prosecution. But earlier this year, that’s what happened – for non-payment of her TV licence. The stress took its toll on her mental and physical health. “I don’t think I’m a criminal,”