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Wednesday, 08 April 2026

BBC News

• The US refinery now processing Venezuelan oilChevron is now importing 250,000 barrels of crude per day from Venezuela.

Times Online

• Pedestrianised Oxford Street aiming to dodge pitfalls of La Rambla [subscription]Sadiq Khan's team are taking advice from their counterparts in Barcelona, whose famous avenue is undergoing its own ambitious, and disruptive, regeneration scheme

Bristol Live

• Proposed taxi licensing reforms 'could threaten public safety' warn South Gloucestershire councillorsThe Department for Transport has proposed major reforms

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• £55 million Blyth Relief Road given green light by council plannersThe plans were approved despite concerns over whether it will actually alleviate the town's congestion issues

Other Regional Press

• Somerset could benefit from £165m fund to unlock new homesSomerset could benefit from a share of £165m of new funding designed to unlock housing developments near major roads in England.

Highways News

• The Missing Link: Solving a 50-year transport challenge on today's Highways VoicesThe A417 Missing Link project in Gloucestershire has been covered quite often on Highways News, so now with construction work at a critical phase, Kevin Borras visited the project office in Birdlip to talk to National Highways, Kier Transportation and Prolectric about some of the unique and fascinating elements of the £460m road that, when it's finished, will link Brockworth and Cowley via a new, three-mile long dual carriageway.