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🗓️ 9 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.6 | Today, how Elon Musk was radicalised and what the rest of us can do about it. |
| 0:26.4 | Today in Focus is supported by Octopus Electric Vehicles. |
| 0:33.3 | Given you're listening to this podcast, we'll assume we don't need to tell you why buying an EV is a better choice for the planet than a car that runs on fossil fuels. |
| 0:39.4 | There are now over 1.2 million electric cars on UK roads, but what you might not know is that 80% of them are |
| 0:46.6 | bought through businesses. In fact, one of the cheapest ways to get one is through work. Octopus |
| 0:53.3 | Electric Vehicle's salary sacrifice scheme is like Scheme is like the Cycle to Work scheme. |
| 0:58.0 | It allows your team to save up to 40% on an electric car and get everything they need in one package, |
| 1:05.0 | including a free home charger or 4,000 miles of public charging credit. Your employees pay for their EV from their pre-tax |
| 1:13.9 | salary so they save the tax they'd otherwise pay on their salary. And the best part, it's free |
| 1:20.6 | for your business to set up and run. Also, EV salary sacrifice can help your business meet its |
| 1:27.1 | net zero goals and keep your team happy. |
| 1:30.9 | Head to octopusev.com to give your team a benefit they'll actually care about. |
| 1:44.0 | One of the biggest stories in the UK at the moment is the topic of grooming gangs. |
| 1:49.9 | And it's a horrendous story. |
| 1:52.5 | Young girls and women in towns across England, who from the late 90s to the early 2010s |
| 1:58.3 | were preyed on and sexually assaulted by organised gangs. |
| 2:02.7 | In Hull, our investigation into several victims of a predominantly Asian grooming gang |
| 2:07.1 | led to Humberside Police reopening the investigation. |
| 2:09.8 | That room, that flat, took my childhood from me. |
| 2:13.5 | It's been the subject of major government inquiries that have made hundreds of recommendations |
| 2:18.7 | on changing the law to make sure these terrible crimes stop happening, never happen again. |
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