Scott Challinor

Multiple reports suggest that Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Twitter’s executive board over the weekend to discuss for the first time his $43 billion [£33.6 billion] takeover bid for the social media network.

Adrian Hanrahan, managing director of West Midlands-based chemical manufacturer, Robinson Brothers, recently spoke of how rising costs are beginning to have an impact on business and consumer confidence.

Drivers of heavy goods vehicles [HGVs] are set to benefit from £20 million of funding for improvements to roadside facilities.

Following a five-hour debate in Parliament on Thursday, the Commons Privileges Committee has been asked to launch a probe into whether prime minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled his fellow MPs over Partygate.

Masrour Barzani, PM of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, is visiting the UK to highlight the challenges and barriers to local reform,, the status of Erbil’s ongoing negotiations with Baghdad, and to present his vision for a new system of confederation in the Middle Eastern country.

Partygate, the government’s plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, and comments made by the PM about the Archbishop of Canterbury and the BBC were all on the agenda as Boris Johnson faced MPs again at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

Prime minister Boris Johnson was grilled by MPs in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, after he was fined by the police for having broken his own lockdown laws.

Prime minister Boris Johnson will address Parliament on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to issue an apology for his receipt of a fine for breaking Covid lockdown rules in Downing Street.

Driver Require CEO Kieran Smith will sit on the judging panel for the 36th Motor Transport Awards.

Radical Motorsport - the UK’s largest race car manufacturer - has recently announced the appointment of Team Stradale as its new official dealer in Florida.

Pendragon, one of the UK’s leading automotive retailers, has agreed a naming sponsorship deal with Power Maxed Racing [PMR], one of the foremost racing teams in the British Touring Car Championship [BTCC].

Khadija Mohammed has been elected the new General Teaching Council for Scotland [GTC Scotland] council convener.

Some asylum seekers crossing the Channel to reach the UK illegally will be sent to Rwanda under the government’s new plans to curb human trafficking.

Terence Carvalho, the former general manager of Becketts in Southsea, Portsmouth, has been shortlisted for the Entrepreneur of the Year prize at the 2022 Portsmouth News Business Excellence Awards.

Ali Harbi Ali, the radicalised Islamic State supporter who murdered Conservative MP Sir David Amess, has been sentenced to life in prison.