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Sunday, 05 November 2017

BBC News

• Half of UK road speed cameras are switched offPolice forces admit many fixed speed cameras are off, with four areas having no active cameras.

Financial Times

• Battle over Uber and ride-hailing heats up in BrazilKhosrowshahi flies in to fight new rules in the app’s second largest overseas market

Times Online

• Why the AA is in need of roadside assistance [Subscription]The shock exit of ‘Big Bad Bob’ may not be the brand’s biggest woe
• Motorists getting a buzz out of ecars [Subscription]Sales of electric vehicles are starting to pick up speed as they jostle for position on Ireland’s increasingly polluted roads, writes Brian Carey

London Evening Standard

• More than half of UK speed cameras 'do not work'More than half of fixed speed cameras on British roads do not work, data has revealed.

Northern Echo

• Speed cameras a 'tactical option' says force - as survey reveals only half of all devices are switched onA POLICE force in the region says fixed speed cameras are still a “tactical optionâ€� despite evidence forces are increasingly turning towards mobile cameras and speed camera vans in a bid to trap speeding drivers.
• MP speaks to demonstrators on walk to protest against bypass being built across community woodland NEARLY 100 walkers turned out this morning for a protest against plans to build a link road across a community woodland to the north of Darlington.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• 95% of speed cameras are offNinety five per cent of Staffordshire’s speed cameras are turned off it has been revealed.
• Swans cause a flap on the M6 TollDrivers on the M6 Toll were faced with unusual hazards today after three swans made their way onto the inside lane of the carriageway - and later a stag was spotted at the site of the motorway.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Bloor Homes considers 24 hour working at Woods Lane, Melton, to curb road closure disruptionHousing developers have agreed to consider working around the clock to minimise disruption from a fiercely opposed road closure, which gets underway in east Suffolk on Monday.

Reading Evening Post

• Wokingham remembrance parade cancelled due to town centre workRegeneration work in Wokingham means roads are not safe for Remembrance Day parade

Other Regional Press

• Chinese Range Rover Evoque copycat gets a new look The row first erupted in 2014 just weeks after Jaguar Land Rover opened its first Chinese car factory
• Park and ride sign problems will be solved soon – councilA 'SOFTWARE issue' has been blamed for annoying motorists at one of Oxford's park and ride sites.
• Oxford councillor calls for government diesel scrappage fundTHE Government will need to help drivers cover the cost of scrapping diesel vehicles, an Oxford city councillor has said.
• Motorway traffic lights which caused months of chaos to install caused none when they stopped workingIT WAS the £2 million upgrade project which caused drivers months of disruption.
• Four weeks of A31 closures set to begin tomorrow THE A31 will be closed overnight westbound for four weeks on a long stretch through the New Forest due to roadworks which begin on Monday.
• Less than half of fixed speed cameras in Gwent active LESS than half of the fixed speed cameras on Gwent roads are switched on and able to catch offenders, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Other News Sources

• Bagshot road closure and temporary traffic lights as A30 'yellow box junction' installed after decade of waitingAccording to one councillor, the box junction is due to be installed on Sunday (November 6) but Surrey County Council stated a precise date "hasn't been confirmed yet"
• 'That four kilometre diversion would put people off going to Guildford': Council votes to strengthen Farnham Road Bridge A councillor said it would affect "every bus, every park and ride bus, every HGV or any large vehicle that goes into the town"