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The category winners of the Women’s World Car of the Year 2023 have been revealed, two of which have all-electric versions, writes Brian Byrne. These are the Kia Niro, voted by the jurors from around the world as the Best Urban Model in the awards, and the Jeep Avenger, that brand’s first electric vehicle and not yet on sale here, voted the Best Family SUV. Nissan’s X-Trail is the Best Large SUV, the Audi RS3 is the Best Performance Car, and Ford’s latest Ranger the Best 4×4 & Pickup. The Best Large Car is the Citroen C5 X The Overall winner will be announced on 8 March 2023, New Zealand time, International Women’s Day. Women’s World Car of the Year is the only car awards group in the world comprised exclusively of women motoring journalists. It was created by New Zealand’s Sandy Myhre in 2009. She is currently Honorary President while Marta García performs as Executive President. The Irish representative among the 63 members of the judging panel is Geraldine Herbert who writes in

Yes the weather is freezing. Yes it is the middle of December, but unlike our own garden which is sited in the milder climates of the south coast, the Exotic garden at RHS Wisley still has structure, seasonal colour, and a number of surprises that we didn’t expect to see!  The Fuschias and Abutilons are still in flower and despite a number of the key plants being wrapped in anticipation of winter frosts many of the specimen plants still have excellent ornamental value. In fact, now that some of the stock has died back or have been cut back to ground level other plants which were hidden in the greenery are now showing the splendour – in particular we found an amazing and extremely rare variegated Trachycarpus palm! So after following us around the gardens here at Wisley, why not follow our YouTube channel ‘Waling Talking Gardeners’ by clicking the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ button. It is absolutely free and you can be notified whenever we publish a new video by clicking onto the notification bell icon