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Saturday, 25 March 2017

BBC News

• Petrol and diesel prices cut amid pressure on retailersSupermarkets will cut 2p off the price of a litre of petrol and diesel this weekend.

Financial Times

• India’s Uber drivers feel taken for a rideMany people whom Uber helped take out car loans struggle with payments as subsidies are cut

Times Online

• Demand for powers to ban kerb parking [Subscription]Motorists should be banned from parking on pavements to declutter residential streets and encourage more people to walk, ministers have been told.
• Falling crude burns big hole in takings at secretive empire [Subscription]It is one of the world’s biggest companies you’ve never heard of, with an empire that stretches from oil refineries to fuel services, but Vitol has become the latest to suffer from the fall in crude prices.

Mail Online

• Forget traffic jams, hail a cab from the sky: Flying TAXIS could be hitting Singapore by 2030 The days of sitting in a taxi while it's stuck in a traffic jam could soon be a thing of the past for people in Singapore.
• David Cameron's chum-ocracy and its links with Uber bosses Did David Cameron and George Osborne lean on Boris Johnson and Transport for London after the former mayor of London went after Uber in 2015?

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• 'Slow down' motorists are urged by police as more than 3,000 speeding drivers are caught

Other Regional Press

• Motorists urged to check for bikes in Bedford this summerBedfordshire Police is encouraging drivers to be on the lookout for motorcyclists as seasonal bikers start returning to the roads.