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Monday, 06 September 2010

BBC News

• Port Talbot motorway link will 'create 600 jobs' Up to 600 jobs are expected to be created during the construction of a new £107m link on the M4 near Port Talbot.

The Independent

• AA warns over speed cameras Lives will be put at risk if councils scrap speed cameras, the AA warns. A recent switch-off of cameras in the Thames Valley area alarmed residents and there now appeared to be a "road safety policy void", the motoring group said.

The Telegraph

• Rural backlash at speed camera cuts Villages worried that they will be turned into a high speed rat-run are voicing fears that casualties will rise. Coalition spending cuts have already led to a number of local authorities pulling out of their safety camera partnership or considering doing so.
• Thousands of motorists escaping totting up driving banThe 27-year-old from Teeside is one of more than 11,000 motorists whose licences have not been revoked despite totting up 12 points last year.

Press Association

• Lives at risk if speed cameras axed Lives will be put at risk if councils scrap speed cameras, the AA has said.