"It has taken the new government just seven short months to undermine what by their own admission has been a successful programme to date," Jeremy Leggett, executive chairman at Solarcentury, told Business Green.

The have been deployed at the McMurdo Station where temperatures can drop to -50 degrees Fahrenheit. So far, the vehicles have logged nearly 140 miles on the ice, and will continue to collected data for another year in order for researchers to decide if the all-electric trucks could replace some of the diesel fleets currently being used. There is a chance, however, that the amount of electrical power needed will be too great to sustain the green vehicles.

Surrey brothers Disclosure have been hailed in some quarters as the saviours of British dance music. Their debut album, which welds souful house music to modern electronic textures, topped the UK charts in June.

Actually, it's not just our politicians, but the entire Westminster "establishment". Yesterday, a couple of minutes before George Osborne was due to stand up, Twitter came alive with the news the Evening Standard front page, containing details of the Budget, had been posted online. So for half an hour everyone ran around getting excited about what the Standard had said was going to be in the Budget, rather than bothering to listen to George Osborne actually delivering the Budget. Such was the level of mini-hysteria that some commentators called on the entire sitting to be suspended, while in the chamber Ed Balls got so excited when he received a copy of the Standard's front page that Ed Miliband had to tell him to shut up so he could concentrate on what the Chancellor was saying.

An FCO spokesman said: "We are aware of the situation and have been providing consular assistance."He timed the blast for 1pm, when worshippers would normally be arriving at the Mosque, but that days prayers had been put back an hour due to Ramadan.