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  • A car-free London is within our reach | Hirra Khan AdeogunSadiq Khan’s pledge to cut traffic by 27% is welcome, but more must be done – not least to protect residents’ healthLast Friday, everyone living in London was told to avoid strenuous physical activity. An intense area of high pressure meant pollutants were caught in the air, rather than being blown away as usual. The government forecast the highest level of pollution – band 10 – would be reached, with air pollution at its highest recorded level since March 2018. The advice to avoid intense exercise put the onus on the most vulnerable in society – children, elderly people, those living with lun...

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  • Go-Ahead director Adrian Ewer leaves after voting chaos [subscription]Shareholders unhappy with the performance of Adrian Ewer, the company’s senior independent director, had already expressed their dissatisfaction at the company’s recent annual meeting, when investors speaking for 5.5 million shares, or 46.4 per cent of the votes cast, were registered against Ewer’s re-election.

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  • Extra funding to tackle West Yorkshire's HGV and bus driver 'crisis'TRAINING providers in West Yorkshire will be given extra cash to offer HGV and bus driver courses to deal with the current driver crisis.Recent months have seen a shortage in both HGV drivers and bus drivers, which has led to services across West Yorkshire being reduced or cancelled.On Wednesday West Yorkshire Combined Authority, made up of five West Yorkshire Councils, announced its attempts to tackle the crisis by getting more local providers to begin training the next generation of drivers.With a shortage of HGV drivers due to a mix of Covid 19 and Brexit, haulage companies have offered hig...

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