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Friday, 07 January 2011

BBC News

• Road repairs 'may cost up to £1m'Up to one million pounds may have to be spent by Sandwell council repairing roads, the authority says.
• Renault warns of threat to assetsFrench carmaker Renault says suspected industrial espionage against its business threatens its

Derby Telegraph

• Winter road damage assessments beginCOUNCILS have begun to assess the damage the harsh winter weather has wreaked on the area's roads. Councillor Chris Poulter, cabinet member for neighbourhoods at Derby City Council, said:

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Calls for improved snow-clearingCalls for improved snow-clearing on the A93 Braemar to Glenshee road are to be raised with Transport Minister Keith Brown.

Blackpool Gazette

• £30m to repair Blackpool roads£30m is to be sunk into fixing Blackpool's damaged roads “ bringing an end to pothole hell for drivers.

Northants Evening Telegraph

• 500 crashes in four yearsThere have been 499 road accidents involving police cars in Northamptonshire in the past four years.

Other Regional Press

• Wrong fuel in publically-funded vehicles costs taxpayers £10k PARAMEDICS, police and council workers who put the wrong fuel in publically-funded vehicles have cost Oxfordshire taxpayers almost £10,000 in less than two years.
• A light that is yet to shine....A congestion-busting traffic light system has never been called into action – because there has not been enough traffic to trigger it.
• Aberdeen ˜green™ car scheme revealedABERDEEN residents are being offered their chance to voice views on a plan to offer green cars for hire in Aberdeen.