THE move towards electric vehicles appears to be unstoppable and it is now entirely feasible that, within a generation or so, petrol and diesel fuelled cars will become as rare as the gramophone.

It will be a cold and frosty weekend as temperatures plummet with a risk of hail, sleet and possibly a little snow on high ground.

Tailbacks and traffic congestion is set to worsen this winter and could hit the ‘bad old days’ of jams and delays that characterised towns and cities in the years of the Tiger boom, the AA has warned.

A PETROL price war is looming after several service stations dropped a litre of petrol to under €1 yesterday.