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Saturday, 30 August 2014

BBC News

• Rolling road closures for Nato marchPeople are warned of

The Herald

• Fears of petrol rises send sales tumblingFEARS of a 4p-a-litre rise in prices at the pumps sent petrol sales crashing to an all-time July low.
• Car hits bus stop on busy city routeTWO women have been taken to hospital after a car crashed into a bus stop in one of Glasgow's busiest routes.

The Telegraph

• Could your task disc be worth £1000? Paper tax discs will be worthless from October 2015 – but for a few British drivers they could be an unexpected money spinner. The rarest paper discs can be traded for hundreds of pounds each by enthusiastic collectors, sometimes known as “velologists”.

London Evening Standard

• Road test: Land Rover Discovery HSE Lux It’s easy to forget when you’re cruising the motorway or nosing elegantly through town that you’re not at the wheel of a plush limo but of, possibly, the pinnacle of Land Rover’s “go-anywhereâ€� design technology: the Discovery.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Nottingham Post published Lucy Whitaker: More common sense is needed when it comes to speed...ROAD safety, and the methods used to ensure it, are important but controversial issues. Speed is a contributory factor in a significant number of road accidents and speed cameras play an important role in maintaining road safety.Many people forget that the primary role of speed cameras is to keep people safe, and without them, few motorists would have an incentive to keep to the speed limit.However, speed limits are arbitrary figures and this can result in typically law-abiding drivers being...

Sheffield Star

• Further Sheffield gritting cuts ‘can’t be ruled out’Yet more cuts to gritting services could be made, it has been revealed, after revised plans were agreed to reduce the number of roads treated.

Bucks Free Press

• Councillors concerned about junction 3a plans CONCERNED councillors have spoken out about a proposal to build a motorway junction in Flackwell Heath, and they now hope to put the brakes on any future development.

Carlisle News & Star

• Mum calls for probe into crash in Cumbria which killed son A grieving mother whose firefighter son died after his car hit a damaged bridge parapet has asked police to investigate the tragedy afresh.

Other Regional Press

• Link road 'too low-priority' to be given £12m funding A PLANNED new link road in North Oxford did not win Government funding because it was not listed as a priority, the leader of Oxford City Council has said.
• New major city roadworks ‘will not hit commuters’ AFTER years of waiting, work on redeveloping Frideswide Square is to start on Monday – and council officials have promised the first stage of the work will not affect people’s journeys to work.
• Motorway closures to take place over the weekendDrivers using the M6 and M55 around Preston in Lancashire are being advised that some overnight carriageway closures will be taking place this weekend and on Monday night as part of the £7m pinch point widening improvements.