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Monday, 16 May 2016

The Guardian

• The Welsh valleys road with some of the UK's worst air pollutionHeavy traffic sees A472 at Crumlin record highest nitrogen dioxide outside London – and residents fear for children’s healthThe rush hour is not a good time to be out and about on the A472 as lorry after lorry climbs out of the south Wales valley town of Crumlin and heads up and over towards Pontypool.“It’s pretty terrible,” said Deanna Harwick, a mother of two young children, who lives in a terrace lining one side of the heaving road. “We can’t have the windows open because of the fumes so in the summer the house feels pretty airless. I don’t let the children play outside, not just because of...

Mail Online

• Queen's Speech to introduce legislation that will allow driverless cars The Department for Transport has said such cutting-edge technologies are crucial to the country’s economy and that its proposals will help deliver jobs.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• New £29m cycle superhighway 'used as a car park' INCONSIDERATE motorists have been condemned for

Bucks Free Press

• Long-awaited relief road 'too narrow' to cope with traffic, resident fears A long-awaited relief road to cut congestion in Beaconsfield Old Town may not be wide enough to cope with the amount of traffic, a resident fears.