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Thursday, 26 November 2020

BBC News

• ˜My electric car is helping to power my homeOVO Energy's trial allows some electric car owners to turn their vehicles into mini power stations.

Times Online

• Bigger cars leave drivers with just 21cm to squeeze out of a space [subscription]Motorists are being left with as little as 21cm to wriggle out of their vehicle in car parks following a sharp increase in the size of cars over the past 50 years, according to research.

City AM

• Car production falls again as nightmare year stretches onCar production fell once again in October as the sector’s nightmare year showed no sign of ending. Just 110,179 cars The post Car production falls again as nightmare year stretches on appeared first on CityAM.

Sky News

• Gove faces secrecy claims over Brexit haulage 'shambles'Government secrecy over its new border operating system is hindering the country's Brexit preparations, according to haulage industry bosses who labelled the process a "complete shambles".

Birmingham Post

• 5G being used in new generation of driverless carsVodafone installing latest kit at Horiba MIRA's vast vehicle test site in central England

London Evening Standard

• Christmas travel hit by ‘absurd’ price hikes as Londoners try to get home Londoners planning to leave the capital for Christmas have said they are facing travel “chaosâ€� with December travel timetables yet to be decided, planned rail works cancelling hundreds of services and uncertainty around coronavirus restrictions.

Yorkshire Post

• Struggling taxi drivers in North Yorkshire claim to have been 'forgotten' during the coronavirus pandemicStruggling taxi drivers in North Yorkshire have claimed the trade has been “forgotten” during the Covid-19 pandemic as many cabbies call time on their driving careers because of dwindling passenger demand.

Bucks Free Press

• Are Wycombe's e-scooters being abused already? Abandoned vehicle has to be retrieved by councillorsHigh Wycombe’s new e-scooters appear to be being abused already – with councillors forced to retrieve abandoned hired vehicles and return them to the High Street.

Other Regional Press

• Campaigners call for widespread 20mph zones in Hertfordshire Calls for 20mph speed limits across large areas of Hertfordshire’s roads have been rejected.
• Dorset Council offers free parking on selected days in December FREE parking is being offered on Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas in a bid to boost business on the High Street.