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Sunday, 31 August 2014

The Telegraph

• RAC gears up for £2bn listing with offer for members Car breakdown business RAC is hoping to cash in on its base of loyal motoring members by including a retail offering when it pushes the button on a stock market listing in the coming weeks. RAC, founded as the Royal Automobile Club in 1897 by motor enthusiasts, has 8.2m total members, with 6m having bought policies directly from it.

Mail Online

• Look, no hands! I'm in Google's driverless car (and it could be finding its way to YOUR street) Caroline Graham becomes the first non-American to get into the passenger seat - in fact, they're all passenger seats - of Google's first driverless car... and she settles down to do some work.

This is Money

• How to drive down the high cost of motoring From finance to fuel and car clubs, our road map for a better deal on wheels. Megan Rowe had a tracking device installed by insurer Hastings Direct to help lower her premiums.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Taxi trapped on canal bridge as it swings out over the waterway MOTORISTS have been warned to always obey warning lights after a Bradford taxi driver became trapped on a swing bridge over a waterway.

Sheffield Telegraph

• Deadline for M1 services planThe Woodland Trust is urging objectors to a proposed motorway services station in Smithy Wood near Chapeltown to respond before the council deadline of September 5.

Burnley Express

• Burnley road closure for resurfacing TRAFALGAR Street in Burnley will be closed for two weeks from tomorrow as Lancashire County Council carries out resurfacing connected with the Weavers Triangle regeneration project.

Other Regional Press

• Major works will close road for eight weeks WORKS are due to start on a rural through-road to replace a Victorian water main.
• Lorries may face ban on Kidlington road MOVES to declare part of a Kidlington street a pollution hot spot could bar lorries from driving around the village, it is hoped.