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Saturday, 03 February 2018

Times Online

• Police seek unpaid drivers for 10hr days [Subscription]A police force is recruiting unpaid volunteers to drive officers around.
• Dodgy parking operators who fine the dead face ban [Subscription]New rules will be introduced to ban cowboy parking companies after operators tried to fine a dead person and a woman too short to read parking signs.

Mail Online

• End hospital car parking charges, demands senior Tory MP Ministers should raid the overseas aid budget to end the ‘stealth tax’ of hospital car parking charges, a senior Tory MP Rob Halfon demanded yesterday.

The Mirror

• Cash-strapped Brits hit at the pumps as petrol hikes to continue for three more months Drivers already pay 4p more for unleaded and 5p extra for diesel than in October - and the prices are set to rise further

This is Money

• New Aston Martins to be sold with birth certificates Aston Martin has installed 20 fixed cameras to capture every key moment in the creation of the owner’s new car.
• RAY MASSEY: Honda gambles on a new diesel-powered civic Honda is boldly adding a diesel variant to the line-up of its British-built Civic. Is it mad? Bosses don't think so. Modern diesels that are cleaner, leaner and more fuel-efficient are still in demand.

Birmingham Mail

• £5,000 reward offered after £25,000 worth of vehicles destroyed in arson attackQasib Iqbal, boss of IQ Services Ltd, on Valley Road, Earlswood, near Solihull, said the January 7 attack had taken away his livelihood
• What would you do in a driverless car - you'll never believe what 1 in 10 people saidRead a book, learn a language, play video games or try something more risqué perhaps

London Evening Standard

• 40 cab firms go out of business just months after 5,000% rise in fees"Mind-boggling" hikes to the cost of minicab operator licence fees in London have had a "devastating" impact on long-established family firms, figures reveal today.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Has your car been damaged by a pothole? This is what you need to do to make a claimMotoring organisation says the number of accidents caused by potholes has increased

The York Press

• Crockey Hill A19 roadworks warningTHE A19 will be down to a single lane at Crockey Hill on Saturday morning as roadworks push on.

Wales Online

• A car with only three wheels was stopped by police on a Welsh road Driven by a newly-qualified driver it also didn't have an MOT and no bumper
• Major Valleys road will be closed this weekend for roadworks It is all part of the £800m upgrade of the A465 Heads of the Valleys road

Daventry Express

• Some speed cameras have now been switched on in Northamptonshire and here's whereMotorists driving above the speed limit on the new smart motorway in Northamptonshire will now be hit with a fine.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Review orders more ambulances on the road and hospitals to check patients in quicker after winter crisisThe region’s ambulance trust will put extra crews on the road by using private ambulance services and hospitals have been ordered to take patients into A&E quicker.
• A134 linking Suffolk to Essex named among most dangerous roads in Britain by motoring companyThe A134 which links Suffolk to north Essex has been named as one of Britain’s most dangerous roads.

West Sussex Gazette

• More drink-drivers convictedMore people have been taken off the road after the latest round of convictions for drink and drug-driving.
• ‘Working hard’ to repair West Sussex potholesRecent wet weather and frequent variations between mild and cold/freezing temperatures have led to an increased number of potholes on West Sussex roads, according to the county council.

Other Regional Press

• Oxfordshire at cutting edge of electric tech as new factory opened A NEW electric motor production facility for car makers has been officially opened by Business Secretary Greg Clark.
• Government funding to upgrade 'overused' link road in BicesterPLANS to improve a major trunk road through Bicester have been granted £6.7m government funding.
• John Radcliffe car park partly closed this weekend PARKING will be significantly limited at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford this weekend.
• Are Uber about to launch in Swindon?UBER are making in roads into the Swindon mini-cab market – with several drivers taking fares in the town.

Other News Sources

• Rural parking charges: Could card and phone payments exclude the elderly from Surrey's top countryside estates?It was agreed on Tuesday (January 30) that paying the fees with a card or phone is safer and quicker   Concerns over modern car park payments deterring the elderly