Funding will be delivered through one of the UK’s leading electricity transmission and distribution network management companies. 

Two organisations based in the northern English borough have launched a major conservation project. 

183million cheap plug-in and battery products were bought ahead of the holidays last year, sending the risk of blazes at recycling centres rocketing. 

The new facility in the Blackburn neighbourhood will benefit from four 240kW dual socket charge points, powering up to eight electric vehicles at a time.  

One of the most dangerous forms of air pollution is not being taken seriously despite the huge threat to teachers, students, doctors, nurses and council staff. Policy changes could help, but successive governments have been reluctant to act.