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Saturday, 15 January 2011

BBC News

• Green dream: Islands go electricThe Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland are chosen as the perfect testing ground for the electric car.

Mail Online

• Government divided on petrol prices: Treasury insists it might not be able to afford David Cameron's fuel tax reformThe Prime Minister, who has championed the idea of a 'fuel price stabiliser’, let slip that it could leave the Government with a huge black hole in its books.

The Mirror

• Motorist spent 10 years saving for dream Porsche.. and was banned from road on day he bought it A PETROLHEAD who saved for 10 years to buy an £80,000 Porsche has been banned for speeding – on the day he picked it up.

The Sun

• PM faces fuel stabiliser fight with Osborne DAVID Cameron will battle George Osborne over how to ease pain at the petrol pumps

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Fuel price increases 'bleeding families dry' in North Wales FUEL price rises are “bleeding families dry” as the cost of filling a family car soared to £97.

Liverpool Echo

• Merseyside petrol prices CHEAPEST unleaded is 123.9p/litre at Asda Hunts Cross, Morrisons Belle Vale and Shell Maghull; then 124.9/litre at garages including Shell Aigburth Road, Shell Aintree and Sainsbury's Rice Lane. Cheapest diesel is 128.9p/litre at garages including Shell Bootle, Shell Aintree, Shell Fazakerley, Morrisons Belle Vale, Sainsbury's Rice Lane and Asda Walton.

London Evening Standard

• Hope of petrol price cut for motoristsFuel prices could be cut under government plans to share the proceeds of rises in the value of oil, David Cameron hinted

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Councils get £15m extra for winter Councils are to share an extra £15million to cover the impact of the recent Arctic weather on Scotland™s roads.
• Council may need cash reserves for roads saltingHighland Council might have to use money from its reserve fund towards the cost of gritting and salting during the recent severe weather.

The York Press

• Fresh look at 20mph speed limit COUNCIL chiefs in York will take a fresh look at including views on 20mph speed limits in the city within a blueprint for its transport future.

The Shields Gazette

• Cracking up as road worsensRESIDENTS on a South Shields estate are cracking up over the state of a road.

Other Regional Press

• Decision due on 20mph zonePlans to introduce a 20mph zone on roads near two schools in central Watford will be discussed next week.
• Chance to take advantage of car share scheme MOTORISTS in Burnham and Highbridge struggling with increases in fuel duty and VAT are urged to take advantage of a free car sharing service.
• Factory teams up with F1 legend for prototypeA motorsport factory is weeks away from completing a prototype for a £300,000 racing car after teaming up with Formula 1 team McLaren. CRS Racing signed a deal last year to design the model based on McLaren's new MP4-12C supercar. It plans to build, sell and support 15 of the cars in the first year of production, from its factory at Bardon Hill, near Coalville. As part of the development programme, McLaren and CRS will use the prototype to compete at a limited number of European GT races in 2011 against the likes of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and Porsche 911 GT3. CRS Racing has a pedigr...
• Drive to boost road safety POLICE are meeting parents and children at every school in Abingdon in a bid to improve road safety.
• Park and ride plan could end the jams TRANSPORT chiefs are looking at whether a park and ride car park near Bicester Village could resolve traffic problems for the designer outlet centre.

New Scientist

• Car batteries run on relativityThe lead-acid batteries that power car starters get about 80 per cent of their voltage from relativistic effects on electrons zipping around lead nuclei

Washington Post

• Toyota: Rising yen could force production shifts TOKYO -- Toyota's president acknowledged that shifting production abroad may be inevitable to ward off damage from a rising yen, a reversal of course for the Japanese automaker.

Other News Sources

• Housing demand puts brake on road project A NEW affordable housing complex can be built in Wickham, despite £100,000 of road improvements falling through.
• Scotland receives salt deliveriesSalt supplies in Scotland have been boosted with the delivery of 4,000t of salt for use on roads in the north east.