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Friday, 10 February 2012

The Telegraph

• Freezing temperatures too cold for grit to work

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Wrexham link road scheme reaches new milestoneCONSTRUCTION work on a multi-million pound link road scheme has reached a milestone this week.

Liverpool Echo

• Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant closure reports dismissedREPORTS that Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant could be closed in a new round of cost-cutting by parent company General Motors (GM) were last night dismissed as speculation by European bosses and factory unions.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Mini-gritter on trial in LincolnshireA MINI-GRITTER designed to tackle narrow country roads in icy weather is being trialled in south Lincolnshire.

Campaign for Better Transport

• Give the public a bigger say on motorway funding8 February: In a joint letter with CPRE we say the Highways Agency should be made more accountable not more commercial. read more

Green Miscellany

• The electric car that spins and folds Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an electric city car that is so manoeuvrable it can spin around its own centre and folds to fit into the tiniest parking spaces.read more

Other News Sources

• Remote control car paves the way for autonomous vehiclesThe Engineer paid a visit to automotive test specialist MIRA to see a new vehicle designed to put autonomous driving systems through their paces.
• Speed camera could rake in more than a millionA speed camera on the A270 Lewes Road, Brighton, will be turned back on next month after being out of action since the end of last year as part speed limit changes