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Saturday, 20 August 2016

BBC News

• Stepping Hill Hospital car parking charges to rise by 40%A hospital is raising car parking charges by up to 40 per cent in a bid to offset a �40m deficit.
• Reality Check: Is Oxford Street the world's most polluted?London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Oxford Street is the world's most polluted road. Is he right?
• Harley-Davidson in $12m emissions penaltyHarley-Davidson is paying US authorities $12m (�9m) to settle allegations its motorcycles polluted the air at higher levels than allowed.
• Brexit pushes Opel to cut staff hours in GermanyGerman carmaker Opel plans to cut its workers' hours this year because it expects Brexit to hurt its UK sales.

Financial Times

• Hackers still exposing car cyber loopholesCarmakers have an uneasy relationship with those exposing security flaws in connected vehicles

The Telegraph

• New York City cab drivers no longer have to speak English as new laws come into force

This is Money

• Five of the best modern classic convertibles A drop top gives any car added glamour but not just any convertible will do. If you appreciate passion over practicality, we have picked five of the not so usual suspects.

Bolton News

• Road resurfacing to go ahead 5 years after work first planned A BLACKROD road is set to be resurfaced five years on from when work was first planned.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Road to be closed for repair work at historic pub in Bingley A BINGLEY road will be closed this weekend as major work starts on an historic pub shut since the Boxing Day floods.

London Evening Standard

• 'Callous' theft of disabled drivers' blue badges treblesThousands of people are stealing disabled drivers’ blue badges, with the number of cases trebling in the past three years.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Work to begin on new Dudley car parkWork on a new car park in Dudley town centre is set to start in the next few weeks, council bosses have revealed.

Bucks Free Press

• Council leader's comments on fixing the county's roads branded 'pathetic' Bucks County Council only wants a unitary council so it can “get its hands on the reserves of the district councils”, the Bucks Labour Party has claimed.
• Dozens of cars clamped by police across Wycombe Dozens of cars have been clamped by police across Wycombe this week as part of a crackdown on abandoned vehicles.

Peterborough Telegraph

• New plans to extended A1M to create continuous motorway from Peterborough to LondonA new study has set out plans for the A1M to be extended creating a continuos motorway between Peterborough and London.

Other Regional Press

• More road delays expected as daily protests continue near Seal SandsDemonstrations have frustrated commuters and protests are set to continue over workers' rates of pay
• New plans proposed to stop roads being gridlocked by utility company works DORSET County Council has said that it will work closely with utility companies to benefit the travelling public if new plans being called for to ease traffic chaos are introduced.
• Main road to reopen after two weeks of misery After two weeks of being closed a main road which leads to Watford General Hospital will reopen by midday today.
• Hundreds of roadworks will finish in time for bank holiday, pledges agency MORE than 370 miles of roadworks will be finished or suspended in time for the bank holiday get-away next week.
• Street being closed for ONE YEAR to allow building work PEOPLE living near a building site are angry that they only found out by chance that a nearby road could be closed for up to a year.
• Smart cards for city bridge hit by glitch DRIVERS using the SmartCities card to get across the Itchen Bridge in Southampton are facing technical problems when they try and top up their cards.

Other News Sources

• Clay Lane Link Road plans: Secretary of State will not call in first phase application Residents' calls for the government to intervene in council plans for an internal access road in Slyfield Industrial Estate have been rejected
• Dirty diesel vehicles could be banned from roads under air quality plans DIRTY diesels could be restricted from a port town's roads under new proposals but a 20mph zone has been ruled out as part of an overhaul.
• Volvo and Uber join forces on driverless taxi planSwedish carmaker Volvo has joined forces with ride-sharing company Uber on the development of self-driving vehicles. The two companies have agreed to jointly invest $300m in a project that could reportedly see a fleet of up to 100 autonomous taxis take to the street of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the end of the year. According to […]

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