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Tuesday, 28 August 2018

BBC News

• Police merger on hold after fresh warningsThe Scottish government is to review how to merge British Transport Police and Police Scotland.
• Nissan produces first electric cars targeting Chinese marketThe Japanese carmaker's move is part of bigger push to make electric cars for world's biggest market.
• Toyota to invest $500m in Uber in driverless car dealThe firms will develop a fleet of self-driving cars in a deal that values Uber at $72bn.

Times Online

• Family runarounds can’t use E10 green fuel [Subscription]Hundreds of thousands of popular family cars will be unable to use a new generation of “green” petrol that could be introduced to forecourts.

Mail Online

• Jaguar develops new self-driving car that looks at pedestrians at zebra crossings The large, cartoon-like eyes – complete with digital eyelids and pupils – sit roughly where headlights might be, making the cars resemble the children’s TV character Brum.
• Supercar convoy brings London’s Regent Street to a standstill as superrich end summer of showing off A Bentley worth around £230,000 was one of the supercars in a convoy which brought Bank Holiday shoppers to a standstill on London's Regent Street.