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- Bridgend council to fine school drop-off bad parkersA car will patrol schools, finding drivers who have parked in bus stops or on double yellow lines.
- London's moped crime hotspots revealed: Check your areaHigh car insurance and the boom in delivery services such as Deliveroo have increased the number of mopeds.
- Didi Chuxing suspends Hitch after passenger death
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- Who will win the race for a driverless car? (Subscription)It has been the stuff of science fiction for decades but in just a few years British motorists could finally be sitting behind the dashboard of a driverless car.
- £250m bypass will destroy woodland (Subscription)A four-mile bypass will be built partly in the South Downs National Park under a plan that conservation groups fear will set a precedent for development in other protected areas.
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- Fury as new £1billion tunnel under the Thames finally gets the green light after 13 years The Silvertown Tunnel was first proposed in 2005 to help ease the burden on the Blackwall Tunnel, and was backed by Boris Johnson in 2008 and his successor as London Mayor, Sadiq Khan.
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- The first 5 mins of car journeys expose us to high levels of pollution Emissions systems that are built into cars to capture harmful pollution take around 5 minutes to activate, resulting in twice as much pollution being produced than normal.
- Road safety group dubs electric cars a 'stealthy menace' The EU will introduce new rules that will demand that all manufacturers add low-speed alerting sounders to their new electric powered vehicles from 2019. But Steer Safe wants it to be sooner.
- Motorists are 22 per cent more likely to crash on a Friday Britons drive 13 per cent more journeys on a Friday, when they are 3 per cent longer too, according to a new report.
Northern Echo
- £1 million a month - The cost of potholes to drivers and insurers POTHOLES are costing drivers and insurers at least £1 million a month in total due to massive car repair bills, according to estimates from the AA.
- Fears over village road left in dark CONCERNS have been raised about plans to remove village street lights.
- Seven cars damaged by '1.5 metre' pothole in 40 minutes – but council won't reimburse drivers AT least seven cars were damaged in just 40 minutes by a large pothole – but a council is refusing to reimburse the drivers.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Urgent A12 bridge repairs to bring four months of road closures in ColchesterSections of road around the A12 near Colchester are set to close for four months while urgent repairs are carried out – including to a bridge, which suffered “marked deterioration”.
Other Regional Press
- 10 weeks of roads misery in Walcot as potholes are repaired WALCOT residents will face 10 weeks of disruption as a pothole-ridden road is reconstructed.
- Potholes costing drivers and insurers '£1m a month' in car repair bills POTHOLES are costing drivers and insurers at least £1 million a month in total due to massive car repair bills, according to estimates from the AA.
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