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Saturday, 10 June 2017
BBC News
- Google's Street View cars track air pollution and other newsBBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the best of the week's technology news stories.
The Guardian
- London Bridge: more arrests as police tell how terrorists wanted to use truckTrio who killed eight people tried unsuccessfully to hire 7.5-tonne lorry hours before attackThe three terrorists who struck London Bridge last Saturday tried to hire a 7.5-tonne lorry on the morning of the attack to kill even more people and inflict a bigger atrocity on Britain.Early on Saturday morning police investigating the attack made raids in east London and arrested two more people on suspicion of terror offences, bringing the number being held to seven. A 27-year-old man was detained at a house in Ilford and a 28-year-old man at a house in Barking. Continue reading...
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Times Online
- Jihadists tried to hire lorry on day of London Bridge terror attack [Subscription]New details of plot emerge as police make 19th and 20th arrests
Mail Online
- British father and baby die after car crash in Brittany Their car was hit from behind by a cattle truck on Wednesday as they were driving close to the village of Pluguffan in Brittany, France. The baby is thought to have died instantly in the tragedy.
- London Bridge killer tried to hire a 7.5 ton lorry Khuram Butt wanted to kill and maim as many as possible, but was forced to change his plans for hiring a 7.5 ton truck when his credit card was declined. He instead hired a smaller van (pictured)
- Tickets hit �1.3million a year on just one London road Watch out next time you park in Rivington Street, Shoreditch (pictured) in East London. Parking wardens issued an astonishing 19,365 tickets there last year, an average of 50 each day.
The Mirror
- London Bridge attackers spent two hours cruising the streets in their van before they struckPolice fear the murderous trio were scouting other targets as it was revealed mastermind Khuram Butt had tried to get hold of a 7.5 tonne truck
- Road rage row erupts into full-blown fist fight as crowd rush in to separate brawling motorist and pedestrian At one point, the driver appears to be dragged to the floor in a headlock
Birmingham Mail
- UK road tax rules have changed: How much do you need to pay now? Motorists across Birmingham and throughout the West Midlands will be required to change what they pay in a bid to keep their vehicles on the road
Bolton News
- Renewed calls for HGV ban in village centreA RENEWED effort has been made to impose a 7.5-tonne vehicle restriction in a village because heavy-goods vehicles are
- Security increase at country park due to biker menace and torched carsSECURITY is to be stepped up at Bolton's newest country park after reports that vehicles are being set alight and off-road bikers are putting off walkers.
Daily Post (North Wales)
- Have you made the North Wales bad parking rogues' gallery? A round-up of the worst offenders caught out in supermarket car parks and streets across the region
Wales Online
- The cliff-top car park at Rhossili will closed for 3 days The National Trust had hoped to avoid any closures while it upgraded the car park but now say it cannot be avoided
Reading Evening Post
- M3 to close for full weekend as Smart Motorway project enters final stagesWork will include drainage work and vegetation clearance
Other Regional Press
- An 1886 Mercedes-Benz is set to take centre stage at a Dorset supercars event A RARE Mercedes-Benz is taking centre stage at a classic and supercars event in July.
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