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Sunday, 03 October 2021

BBC News

• Petrol deliveries: Visas for foreign lorry drivers extendedThe government is issuing 300 visas to overseas fuel tanker drivers

Financial Times

• Military to begin delivering petrol to UK garages from Monday Visa rules for overseas tanker drivers to be loosened amid week-long fuel supply crisis

The Telegraph

• How Cazoo became Britain's fastest 'unicorn' [subscription]Serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman aims to continue the success he achieved with past projects LoveFilm and Zoopla with used car website

Times Online

• Speed limit may spell the end of fun, fun, fun on the autobahn [subscription]If Olaf Scholz forms a coalition government, speed limits may be introduced on Germany’s motorways

City AM

• Petrol bosses warn fuel shortage is 'getting worse' in London and south-eastFuel shortages are getting worse rather than improving, especially in London and the south-east of England, the chairman of the The post Petrol bosses warn fuel shortage is 'getting worse' in London and south-east appeared first on CityAM.

Mail Online

• Robert Goodwill is asked to get back behind a lorry wheel to help solve the HGV driver shortage Ex-Transport Minister Robert Goodwill, who holds an HGV licence, was surprised this week to find he was being asked to get back behind a lorry wheel and help solve the driver shortage.
• Experts warn fuel crisis is WORSENING amid price hikes that see garages charging almost £3 per litreGarage bosses were charging almost £3 for a litre of petrol amid warnings that motorists could be hit by 5p price rises as the fuel crisis continues to grip London and the South East.

Birmingham Post

• Work starts on £135m improvement to South West's A303 bottleneckConstruction begins on three-mile stretch of dual carriageway from Sparkford to Ilchester

Daily Post (North Wales)

• North Wales named among UK's most biker friendly placesThe region is officially a hit with motorcyclists after public vote

The York Press

• 'Council has NOT given up on road improvements' - transport bossI would like to respond to a couple of points in recent readers’ letters.

Other Regional Press

• 'They are putting lives in danger and damaging their own cause'The government has taken out another injunction targeting climate protesters who block main roads.