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Road planners accused of rigging carbon emissions rules 0
- BUSINESS
- August 24, 2020
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
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UK councils to enforce temporary road closures for safer school runs | Education 0
- BUSINESS
- May 9, 2020
Roads 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
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Culture Crossover: Abbey Road Red incubates digital future of music | Emerging tech & innovation 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 14, 2019
Abbey 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
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Harry Dunn’s father attacks Dominic Raab over road death | Politics 0
- BUSINESS
- December 3, 2019
The 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
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Road World Championships 2019: Nils Eekhoff ‘will never ever forget these best 15 minutes of my life’0
- BUSINESS
- September 28, 2019
What 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.
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Young drivers may be banned from road at night under safety plan | World news 0
- BUSINESS
- July 17, 2019
Young 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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