内容摘要：Communities in Southport affected by last summer's knife attack in which three young girls were killed are to receive £5.6m in government funding.

Communities in Southport affected by last summer's knife attack in which three young girls were killed are to receive £5.6m in government funding.

A planning application to fit 10 ultra-rapid EV charging bays at Bradford Forster Square Retail Park has been submitted to Bradford Council.The plans, by PoGo Charging, are for a row of parking spaces in part of the retail park next to Hamm Strasse, which the application said was "strategically located" to boost electric vehicle infrastructure in the city.

The bays would replace 19 spaces in the car park – a loss of nine spaces - but the application argued there was an ample number of other spaces available for drivers throughout the car park., the proposal for the EV charging bays stated it was "of significant merit as it will improve customer offer and experience on site to meet customer demand by enabling the provision of electric vehicle charging"."The facility will provide strategically located electric vehicle charging bays for EVs, reducing CO2 emissions from road transport and reducing oil dependency as a transport fuel.

"This proposal provides the opportunity to meet targets for greenhouse gas reduction from road transport, improving air quality standards and increasing the use of alternative fuels by domestic drivers."The application said a recent report had found there were an increasing number of EV charging points being created across the UK, but it added: "Notably, these charge points are largely in the South and in urban areas, and are not equally distributed throughout the UK."

Commenting on the plans, Bradford Council's clean air team said the charging bays would "support the council's wider carbon reduction programmes".

A decision on the application was expected to be made by the authority in May."The worst thing about it was the impact it had on my family who were looking at the social media posts or with me in the pub. That's difficult and shouldn't happen."

But he said it had been worse for female colleagues and he feared that would put off women from standing in future."Political parties have got to try and temper their campaigning – the personal attacks on politicians from opposition parties. Everyone needs to take more responsibility," he added.

I've been talking to politicians about this for over 20 years and they think it is getting worse.Every time we interview an MP we have to be careful about where and when we're doing it. Politicians have accepted it to an extent – but why should they? No-one should be going to work and getting death threats.