Our local MP asked a question in the House:

Guy Opperman (Hexham, Conservative)

My local pub, the Battlesteads Inn, which is award winning and excellent, has an electric car-charging point. It is one of the few in Northumberland. The problem is that the ability to recharge is dependent on the north-east's sole recharging point. When will the system be made nationwide?

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