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Wednesday, 17 February 2021

BBC News

• 'Abandon smart motorways', says South Yorkshire PCCSmart motorways should be abandoned so "more serious injuries or fatalities" can be avoided, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has said.

Times Online

• Ditch smart motorway: police boss, Alan Billings demands return of the hard shoulder [subscription]A smart motorway criticised by coroners should be abandoned after another broken down car was in a serious crash, ministers have been told.

London Evening Standard

• £550-a-day fines for truckers in London with no safety camerasThousands of truckers face £550 fines for driving into London from next month because they have yet to meet new road safety regulations.

The York Press

• 'York waits 40 years - then gets three new car parks at once!' With two newly approved multi-storey car parks - at St George’s Field and the railway station - and a third one in the pipeline for York Central, the current Lib Dem-Green Council has really excelled itself. You wait forty years for a multi-storey car park and then three come along at once!

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Jaguar car brand to be all-electric by 2025Jaguar Land Rover's Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker has said. The company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added. The firm said it would keep all three of its three British plants open as part of its new strategy. But it has dropped plans to build an electric version of its XJ saloon at the Castle Bromwich plant, meaning the site will eventually stop making cars. Chief executive Thierry Bolloré said the plant would focus instead on

Other News Sources

• Coronavirus speeds up major Brighton high street changes THE coronavirus crisis has accelerated major changes to Brighton's shopping streets, a retail expert has said.