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- February 5, 2019
Image copyright Getty Images Road planners in England have been accused of rigging accounting rules to disguise the climate impact of new roads. Environmentalists say the Department for Transport has under-counted CO2 from its road improvement programme. That’s because the DfT measures emissions against national CO2 targets, whilst measuring benefits of a new road against
READ MORERoads are to be temporarily closed near schools when parents drop off and pick up their children, in order to deter people from driving on the school run – and to encourage more walking, cycling and scooting. The plans to shut off roads at school rush hours, using barriers, cones and other measures, are already
READ MOREAbbey Road Studios has a long history of musical innovation. The northwest London site immortalised by the Beatles became the first world’s first custom-built recording studios when it opened in 1931 and has also been the birthplace of stereo sound and the Artificial Double Tracking audio technique still in use today. In 2015, the studio opened up another chapter in its music
READ MOREThe grieving father of Harry Dunn, the British teenager killed in a hit-and-run, has issued a stinging attack on Dominic Raab, accusing the foreign secretary of “empty words” and only meeting the family as a publicity stunt. Harry’s parents, Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles, are campaigning for Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence
READ MOREWhat began as a brutal 186km men’s U23 road race, played out in hearty Yorkshire wind and rain, ended in something akin to cycling’s own culture war. On one side was the UCI and the race commissaires and everyone who believe rules are inflexible things, the bones of a sport that should never be broken.
READ MOREYoung drivers could be banned from the road at night under plans to improve safety, the Department for Transport has announced. Figures show that a fifth are involved in an accident during their first year behind the wheel, and ministers are considering introducing a graduated licence system for novice drivers in England. The scheme could
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