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MPs including Caroline Spelman, a former Conservative environment secretary, are calling on the Government to set up an aircraft noise ombudsman.
Eurotunnel to dock barred ferries in UK
Eurotunnel could take revenge on the UK’s competition watchdog by leaving three large ferries in a British port for up to two years. The operator of the Channel Tunnel has warned it will likely have to leave the vessels, which sail under the MyFerryLink brand, empty for several years, after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last month ruled that it should be barred from running ferry services between Dover and Calais.
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Financial Times
- Luxury car makers slash prices in ChinaChina’s anti-monopoly regulators latest swipe prompts foreign luxury car makers to slash prices
The Telegraph
- Drivers involved in crashes to be forced to give up mobile phones by police Drivers involved in crashes will have their mobile phone seized as part of police crackdown aimed at cutting the number of deaths caused by calling and texting at the wheel. Officers will check all phones for evidence that motorists broke the law by allowing themselves to be distracted by their hand-held device.
- Backlash over rural 50mph limit for lorriesIncreased speed limit for lorries on country roads 'will put other travellers at risk'
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- Drivers may tarnish car insurance record by asking what excess isMotorists contacting their insurer with an innocent query risk having the call used against them, resulting in a potential hike in premiums. Jannette Hibbert suffered.
Metro
- Video shows fuel truck driver is calm despite crashing into lorry and causing massive ‘Hollywood’ fireballThis was the moment a driver calmly jumped out of his fuel truck despite it exploding into a fireball after colliding with another vehicle.
Wales Online
- Sold! Jaguar Land Rover snaps up multi-millionaire dentist James Hull's £100m car collectionMy life's work is in safe hands, says Newport businessman, as his 554 classics including Lord Mountbatten's Mini and Elton John's Bentley go to motors giant
East Anglian Daily Times
- Update: One lane of the A14 remains closed near Woolpit after road surface breaks-up in the hot weather - Highways Agency on way at 8pmOne lane of the A14 has been closed for more than three hours after the road surface began to break-up in today’s intense heat.
Other Regional Press
- A27 Hilsea slip road closuresSLIP road closures on the A27 at Hilsea will be in place overnight next week.
- Resurfacing work will quieten 'noisy' Hampshire motorway EXCESSIVE noise from passing cars could soon be a thing of the past thanks to resurfacing work on a section of the M27 in Hampshire.
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