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Sunday, 30 August 2015

BBC News

• VIDEO: Lorry driver's migrant crisis despairThe Calais migrant crisis is costing the road haulage industry £750,000 per day with delays and queues holding up the flow of traffic.

The Telegraph

• New plans to overhaul driving tests, including changing the age and using satnavsProposals to change the driving test to increase the pass rate could see the age changed and the test involving satnavs
• Double drive: Two children, two schools, half an hour away from each otherMinister promises to end transport 'nightmare' faced by many parents with children at different schools

Daily Express

• Calais crisis: Now British holidaymakers held up for 14 HOURS by rioting Roma gypsiesBRITISH holidaymakers returning to Calais were hit with more chaos yesterday as a mob of Roma gypsies setting fire to piles of tyres and chainsawing branches of trees blocked the motorway they were travelling on.

This is Money

• Should petrol have fallen to £1 per litre already? Motorists have to drive back to 24th March 2009 for the last time both unleaded and diesel were under the 'golden' £1 a litre mark - will drivers ever see this level return to pumps?

Other Regional Press

• Rain has not delayed roadworks - Hampshire council WORKERS behind a controversial scheme to make a Hampshire street more pedestrian-friendly say they are still on target to complete it.

Other News Sources

• Shoreham Airshow disaster: A27 reopens to motorists for the first time since jet crash The A27 has reopened to motorists, eight days after the Shoreham Airshow disaster.