To enjoy the CBBC Newsround website at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on. Check out the ‘Xturismo’ – a super speedy hoverbike! It might look like something straight out of a sci-fi film but a hoverbike that can travel at speeds of 60mph for up to …

Crossrail project faces £150m funding gap, warn MPs Crossrail is facing a ‘serious’ funding gap and there is uncertainty over how loans will be repaid, MPs have warned. A report by the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) stated that the estimated cost of completing London’s new east-west railway exceeds current …

Summertown Rd, Govan, Glasgow. The first all-electric delivery office in Scotland. Image: Royal Mail As the UK prepares to host COP26, Royal Mail has launched today an all-electric delivery office in Glasgow. Just a stone’s throw away from Scottish Event Campus where COP26 is due to be held, the G51 …

JICMail and the Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) have separately revealed the winners of inaugural awards schemes that celebrate the engagement and achievements of mailing companies in different ways. JICMail, the joint industry planning currency for mail, has announced the winners of its inaugural Platinum Awards, which have been given to …

ROYAL MAIL has launched an all-electric delivery office in Glasgow ahead of COP26. Thirteen fully-electric delivery vans have taken over all existing diesel vehicles at the Govan depot in an effort to reduce emissions across the city.  The micro electric vans are roughly the size of a golf buggy or …

Residents are complaining after waiting weeks for their post to arrive. Some people have claimed that it has been almost two weeks since they last saw their postie. Many are waiting up to 10 days for bills and birthday cards to arrive. Residents in Wantage have been complaining about the …

The Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is in talks with West Ham over a deal to buy a minority stake. The co-owners, David Sullivan and David Gold, have been looking for investment for some years but have turned down offers to sell outright. Discussions with Kretinsky have taken place over the …

Electric-powered posties are to turn Glasgow’s Govan Royal Mail delivery office green for Cop26 It will become Scotland’s first fully electric vehicle hub when the 13 vans and two micro vehicles replace its existing diesel fleet. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the move and said: “With the eyes of the …

A Czech-based billionaire who owns big stakes in Royal Mail and J Sainsbury is within days of agreeing the purchase of a big stake in West Ham United Football Club that could lead to a full takeover. Sky News has learnt that Daniel Kretinsky, who owns the Czech top-flight side …

Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has been appointed the Royal Conservatory of Music’s first ever artist in residence.STUART LOWE/RCM The Canadian concert pianist Stewart Goodyear has upcoming concerts with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Nov. 5 and 6) and in Toronto, where, on Nov. 27 at Koerner Hall, he’ll perform the …