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Tuesday, 05 June 2012

BBC News

• What makes a good service station? The thousands of us who have taken to the roads on a Bank Holiday know only too well that motorway service stations can leave a lot to be desired.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Crash sparks new call for action over A95A CRASH which wrecked a minibus and left its driver in hospital has prompted fresh calls for an upgrade of a notorious Moray road.
• Fuel revolt now backed by 40 MPsThe campaign to try to force Chancellor George Osborne to rethink plans for a summer rise in fuel duty is gathering pace.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• 22 drivers a day caught speeding during M5 worksAround 22 drivers a day were caught speeding along just seven miles of the busy M5 motorway during a £9.32 million roadworks scheme, it emerged today.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Leeds Councillors™ road fearsDEVELOPERS behind proposals to build 2,000 homes on the outskirts of Leeds have been warned “don’t even think about a planning application” until key road issues are sorted out.

Other Regional Press

• Road safety partnership supports action group Derby and Derbyshire Road Safety Partnership is encouraging firms to follow the example of Derbyshire County Council – one of the partnership’s member organisations – by displaying one of MAG’s warning stickers near the filler cap of all of their larger diesel vehicles.
• Let there be...no lights on closed roadA road has had its street lights turned on every night despite having been closed for two years.