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Friday, 11 October 2019

BBC News

• Birmingham workplace parking levy: Does it pay to ditch the car?What do businesses and motorists make of Birmingham's plans to impose a levy on employee parking?
• Nissan Europe 'unsustainable' in no-deal BrexitThe Japanese carmaker is concerned about the impact of export duties in the event of no-deal Brexit.
• Dyson has scrapped its electric car projectThe technology firm, which has already built the first cars, says the project is not commercially viable.

The Independent

• Nissan warns no-deal Brexit would make entire European business model 'unsustainable'Adding 10 per cent export duties to 70 per cent of Nissan's production would leave European business model 'in jeopardy', boss warns

Reuters News

• UK car insurance premiums fall 1% in third quarter - surveyThe cost of a comprehensive motor insurance policy in Britain fell 1% in the third quarter, pushed down by uncertainty from the personal injury discount rate change in July and the market watchdog's interim report on general insurance pricing practices, a survey showed.

Birmingham Post

• No-deal Brexit would make Nissan's European model unsustainable"Our industry works with lower margins and if we are in a situation in which tomorrow we have to apply 10% export duties to 70% of our production, the entire business model for Nissan Europe will be in jeopardy."

London Evening Standard

• Dyson scraps electric car project saying it is 'not commercially viable'Sir James Dyson has announced a project to build electric cars has been scrapped.

Wales Online

• Terrifying figures show how dangerously polluted Wales roads are even with 50mph speed limitsThe Welsh Government has boasted that 50mph speed limits are working to cut pollution - yet levels remain dangerously high