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Saturday, 18 February 2012

BBC News

• Diesel price 'at new record high'The price of diesel has hit a new high, at 143.05 pence a litre, figures suggest.

Financial Times

• EU carbon targets threaten luxury carmakersBentley and Bugatti are among the marques which could be affected by penalties for cars which do not sufficiently cut emissions

Liverpool Post

• Roads around Liverpool's Sefton Park finally set for pothole repairs THE pothole-laden roads around Sefton Park are to be repaired.

Metro

• Car hit by concrete block thrown from bridge by 'animalistic' yobsCallum Jackson was relieved to have escaped without serious injury after 'animalistic' yobs dropped a concrete slab from a bridge on to his moving car.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Nottingham Post commented Where will cars park to use new transport hub?Article

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• ˜Civic cowardice™ claim as bypass route chosenINVERNESS councillors yesterday announced their preferred option for new river and canal crossings to carry the city bypass “ and raised hopes that construction could start within three years.

Yorkshire Post

• AA calls for Government action as price of diesel hits all-time high at over 143p a litreThe price of diesel has overtaken the record set in May last year to reach an all-time high.
• Pastor jailed for lying over two speeding offencesA PASTOR has been jailed for two months for lying about driving his car when he was twice caught speeding in South Yorkshire.

Peterborough Telegraph

• The Whiplash BacklashBRITAIN is known as “the whiplash capital of Europe”, with 1,500 claims a day for physical and emotional damage, and loss of earnings. With the increased statistical likelihood of young drivers being involved in an accident, driving a car has become an extortionate or unattainable dream for some, as deputy features editor John Baker discovered.