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Wednesday, 18 March 2015

The Herald

• Driving campaigners call for two-year moratorium on 20mph citiesNO new 20mph speed limits should be allowed until a Department for Transport study is published in 2017, motoring campaigners have said.

London Evening Standard

• 'One in three Londoners to live on streets with 20mph speed limits by summer' Almost one in three London residents will be living on streets with a 20mph speed limit by the summer, new figures reveal.

Doncaster Free Press

• Road safety charity calls for driving test overhaulAs the driving test turns 80 this week, a leading road safety charity has said it should be give a complete overhaul.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Concerns raised about Stonehenge tunnelA number of prominent historians have joined forces to oppose plans to build a road tunnel under Stonehenge. Dan Snow, Ruth Scurr and Tom Holland have lent their support to the Stonehenge Alliance, which is also against the plans to use a tunnel to widen the A303. Mr Snow said: "We have recently started to realise that the standing stones are just a beginning, they sit at the heart of the world's most significant and best-preserved Stone Age landscape. The Government's plans endanger this unique site." However, the government hopes that the proposals will prov...