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• Women failing driving tests far more than men – but are still safer drivers

  22-11-2015 20:47
  
  Female learners over 30 are 25% less likely to pass first time, recent figures show, prompting concern about format of assessmentWomen are far more likely to fail their driving tests than men, according to government figures, despite the fact that male drivers are far more likely to go on to be involved in traffic accidents.According to 2014-15 government statistics, a female 17-year-old driving test candidate was 7% less likely to be passed on her first attempt than a male candidate of the same
  
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• Zenos to gain Focus RS engine

  22-11-2015 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Sports car maker preparing more powerful E10R
  
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• What did the Romans do for us?: Roman road unearthed under Dorchester car park

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations at a building site in Dorchester have uncovered remnants of the main Roman road through the town.
  
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• West Midlands motorists fail to pay at pump 22,000 times

  22-11-2015 01:00 via expressandstar.com
  Wolverhampton Express and Star - Motorists have driven off from petrol stations in the West Midlands without paying more than 22,000 times in the past five years, latest figures reveal.
  
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• VW says CO2 figures are probably wrong and offers to buy back vehicles

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Volkswagen has issued a apology to customers about to take delivery of a new car, admitting its own CO2 and fuel-consumption figures are wrong but failing to say how the situation can be rectified.
  
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• Video 'shows Greek coast guard SINKING Syrian migrants' life raft'

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Footage recorded on November 12 by Turkish rescuers shows a crewman on a Greek-marked coast guard ship jabbing a pole into an inflatable ship in the Aegean Sea.
  
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• VIDEO: Four Britons among NZ crash dead

  22-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A helicopter which crashed in New Zealand was believed to have been carrying four British and two Australian tourists, police say.
  
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• Uber is certainly slick, but its not disruptive

  22-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Although lauded as a genuinely innovative platform, the car-hailing service is based on an idea thats as old as eBayDisruption, says the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is a disrupted condition, disorder; a disrupted part; a rent; a tear or the action or an act of disrupting something. In other words, bad news. Islamic State, for example, specialises in the disruption of orderly democratic life. Over in Silicon Valley, however, (and perhaps also in the hipster wastelands of Shoreditch)
  
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• Turkish Airlines flight to New York diverted and passengers evacuated after bomb threat

  22-11-2015 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror -The plane landed safely and police were searching it using dogs trained in explosives, the Nova Scotia branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Twitter
  
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• Three men arrested in London as armed police close road

  22-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Closure of Blackfriars Road disrupted travel on Saturday as men held on suspicion of theft of motor vehiclePolice stopped a stolen Belgian registered car and arrested three men, sparking a major security alert in central London on Saturday afternoon.Roads were closed and the area around Blackfriars Road evacuated as armed police, with helicopters, ambulances and a fire engine attended the scene. Continue reading...
  
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• Terror alert shuts Brussels metro as jihadist on the run

  22-11-2015 01:00 via euractiv.com
  
  Other News Sources - Brussels shut its metro system as a terror alert was raised to its highest level Saturday, with a gunman still on the run after the Paris attacks which have sent jitters through Europe.
  
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• Somerton Bridge WILL be replaced by a temporary footbridge, says Network Rail

  22-11-2015 01:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -A TEMPORARY footbridge will be open next week as Network Rail carry out electrification work on the Somerton Road bridge.
  
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• Snowfalls and ice as cold snap arrives

  22-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Snow has been falling in some parts of Scotland, England and Wales with some roads closed and drivers warned to take extra care.
  
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• Sheriff calls for tougher laws to prosecute drivers who ignore medical advice and black out at the wheel

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  
  Daily Record -KENNETH Mitchell called for changes to the regulations as he passed judgment at a FAI into the death of Jim Lochrie, who was killed when bus driver David Logue hit him after passing out.
  
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• Reward over 1.1m rail arson attack

  22-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A 30,000 reward is offered after an arson attack caused widespread disruption to train services that cost Network Rail more than 1m.
  
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• Record View: It's time to sort out the laws on big vehicle drivers who take to the roads in an unfit state

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  
  Daily Record -SHERIFF Kenneth Mitchell deserves credit for blasting the woefully inadequate laws around those who drive public vehicles.
  
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• Rail companies to be fined for late-running services

  22-11-2015 01:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph - Ministers are introducing a penalty scheme to hold rail operators directly responsible and tackle companies who pass the blame
  
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• Port of Dover delays for security checks

  22-11-2015 01:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Heightened security controls are causing delays at Dover.
  
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• Porsche 911 Carrera manual: review

  22-11-2015 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - The 911 for the working man proves theres no need to stretch yourself for a more prestigious model
  
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• Parents warned as 31 babies killed by car seats

  22-11-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Daily Express - PARENTS were warned last night not to leave babies strapped in their car seats for long periods after it was revealed that 31 have died.
  
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• Osborne pays out for 138 stealth jets (Subscription)

  22-11-2015 01:00 via thesundaytimes.co.uk
  Times Online - BRITAIN is to buy 138 stealth fighter jets in a £12bn deal that will treble the firepower of the UKs two new aircraft carriers and put the country on a full war footing in the Middle East for a generation.
  
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• New Zealand helicopter crash: British and Australian tourists who died named

  22-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Two British couples and two Australians died with New Zealander pilot when sightseeing flight plummeted on to South Islands Fox GlacierPolice have released the names of six passengersfour of them British and two Australianswho were killed when a helicopter crashed into a glacier in New Zealand. The pilot, from Queenstown on the South Island, also died.Two British couplesAndrew Virco, 50, and Katharine Walker, 51, from Cambridge, and Nigel Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton, 70, fr
  
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• New staircase and lift gives commuters and visitors easier access to London Road from Brighton station

  22-11-2015 01:00 via theargus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -COMMUTERS have had minutes shaved off their journey to work with the opening of a new staircase and lift.
  
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• New restrictions to solve parking issues

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -NEW parking and waiting restrictions are set to come to a Hampshire village to solve car parking problems.
  
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• Mystery over 101 call to Dorset Police... about a car crash in the USA

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -DORSET Police received a 101 call reporting a road traffic collision this evening.... in the USA.
  
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• MPs call for diesel cars scrappage scheme to tackle air pollution

  22-11-2015 01:00 via edie.net
  
  Other News Sources -The government should consider a scrappage scheme for diesel cars to get polluting vehicles off the streets of England's cities, where they contribute to tens of thousands of premature deaths every year, according to an influential committee of MPs.
  
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• Merseyrail train guard to stand trial after woman, 89, fell from platform at Hamilton Square station

  22-11-2015 01:00 via liverpoolecho.co.uk
  
  Liverpool Post -RMT union slams decisions to bring charges against Martin Zee, 32, and says court action is unprecedented
  
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• London police arrest 3 men in Belgian-registered BMW on Blackfriars Road

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Police have arrested three men in a Belgium-registered vehicle following a traffic stop in Central London this afternoon.
  
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• Kenya traffic finally gets moving on jam which lasted THREE DAYS

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - The affected route was on a key trade route for goods being imported from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa towards Nairobi and into east Africa. Drivers said they were stuck for 60 hours.
  
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• Jihadi suspect arrested in Sweden after crossing Arctic Circle on a BICYCLE

  22-11-2015 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Mutar Muthanna Majid, 25, was arrested at a refugee hostel in Boliden, Sweden. He had cycled from Russia. A loophole allows cyclists to be waved straight across the Norwegian border.
  
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• Jaguar XJ 3.0 V6 Diesel Autobiography LWB: review

  22-11-2015 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Is the long-standing Jag getting long in the tooth, despite an upgrade?
  
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• INVITE: come to the next Friends of Bridgwater Station meeting

  22-11-2015 01:00 via thisisthewestcountry.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -Local public transport users are invited to the next meeting of the Friends of Bridgwater Station, on ThursdayNovember 26, starting at 7.30pm at the Railway Club, Wellington Road, Bridgwater.
  
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• Ice on roads warning passes

  22-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A Met Office warning to commuters about difficult driving conditions due to ice on the roads across Wales passes.
  
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• Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell: car review Martin Love

  22-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - It runs on hydrogen and emits nothing but a dribble of water. Could Hyundais ix35 Fuel Cell be the car of the future?Price: mp;pound;53,105Top speed: 99mphPower: 134bhp0-62mph: 12.5 secondsFuel economy: 0.95kg of hydrogen per 369 miles (equivalent to about 60mpg)Hydrogen-powered cars are like buses. You wait years and years and then two come along at once: Hyundais ix35 Fuel Cell and Toyotas Mirai. Both are seriously expensive, will be built in tiny numbers and face almost unimagi
  
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• Hunt for Britons killed in helicopter crash (Subscription)

  22-11-2015 01:00 via thesundaytimes.co.uk
  Times Online - RESCUE teams were preparing last night to resume efforts to recover the bodies of four British tourists from a glacier in New Zealand after their helicopter crashed in bad weather.
  
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• How car dependent are you? One in four said they'd be anxious without a motor

  22-11-2015 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- Being without a car would cost Britons an average of 540 extra a month and potentially have a real impact on their emotional state, according to new research from Direct Line.
  
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• Grimsby Telegraph published Where will the mobile speed camera van be this week, commencing...

  22-11-2015 01:00 via grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The mobile speed camera van operated by Safer Roads Humber will be at a number of locations in our area this coming week.On Tuesday, it will be on the A46 Weelsby Road, Grimsby and on Friday it will be on the A46 Laceby Road, Grimsby.Safer Roads Humber has fixed cameras located on the A46 Laceby bypass and average speed cameras are in operation on Peaks Parkway, Grimsby (40mph).Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
  
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• Going orange for airlines landmark day as employees are reunited

  22-11-2015 01:00 via bedfordtoday.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - The dress code was simple for a reunion of employees - wear orange!
  
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• Gatwick Airport security breach as Mirror reporter stands unchallenged just YARDS from passenger plane

  22-11-2015 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror -Just days after the Islamic State attacks in Paris, our investigators sailed through unmanned gates and close to a fuel truck
  
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• Fox Glacier crash: Four British tourists killed in New Zealand helicopter accident

  22-11-2015 01:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph - Four Britons reported killed after helicopter with six tourists onboard crashes into New Zealand glacier in bad weather
  
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• Four British tourists killed as helicopter crashes into glacier in New Zealand

  22-11-2015 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Seven people are believed to have died in the crash, including the pilot and two Australian tourists
  
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• Essex Chronicle published Hospital shuttle bus to launch from Chelmer Village at the end of...

  22-11-2015 01:00 via essexchronicle.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - A new shuttle bus linking Chelmer Valley Park and Ride car park and Broomfield Hospital will start on Monday, November 30.The bus will run every half hour between the two sites from 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday, and cost mp;pound;3 or free to concessions after 9am.Cllr Roger Hirst, Essex County Council cabinet member for transport, planning and environment, said: mp;quot;We're pleased to be working with Mid Essex Hospitals Trust to improve parking and transportation for pat
  
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• EsmeAshcroft1 commented Seven best ways to de-ice your car

  22-11-2015 01:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  
  Bristol Evening Post - The warm autumn conditions have been replaced with arctic winds and the chance of sleety showers in Bristol this weekend.After weeks of temperatures in the mid-teens, the mercury could drop to 0 degrees on high and exposed areas in and around Bristol this evening. And, since it has been many months since the last frost, the Bristol Post has put together seven top tips on how to safely de-ice your car.1. The age-old advice is DO NOT pour boiling water on the windscreen. The
  
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• EgyptAir bans transport of commodities on commercial flights: air cargo industry to suffer

  22-11-2015 01:00 via eupolitics.einnews.com
  EIN News Subscription - mp;#8230;US airports, according to Tarek Darwish, head of the transport and air freight mp;#8230; , as well as some European airlines, will exacerbate the air transport industrys losses mp;#8230;the aircrafts used are small. The number of aircrafts used for transport is mp;#8230;
  
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• Cheaper fuel helps P&O Ferries steer its way to 13m profits, but trading conditions remain 'competitive'

  22-11-2015 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- Pmp;O Ferries, which is ultimately owned by Dubai World Corporation, turned a previous 10.2 million pre-tax loss into a 13 million profit, aided by an internal refinancing
  
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• Channel ferries at risk from jihadi terror attack

  22-11-2015 01:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph - Government sources admit they are concerned about security at ferry ports over fears that terrorists - thwarted by tightened airport security - will switch attention to shipping
  
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• CCTV released after woman robbed at gunpoint at Leeds bus stop

  22-11-2015 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Post - A WOMAN was robbed at gunpoint as she stood at a bus stop in Leeds.
  
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• Bomb threat diverts Turkish Airlines flight to Canada

  22-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Canadian police say aircraft headed from New York to Istanbul with 256 people on board landed safely in Halifax and will be searchedA Turkish Airlines flight from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to Canada after a bomb threat.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was investigating a bomb threat that caused the flight to divert and land in Canada. Continue reading...
  
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• Blue Skye Thinking: the battle to build an airport which will change Scotland's most beloved island

  22-11-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - IF it happens it will change the beloved Isle of Skye forever.
  
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• Air transport agents expect major losses after banning transport of goods on passenger aircrafts

  22-11-2015 01:00 via eupolitics.einnews.com
  EIN News Subscription - mp;#8230;US airports, according to Tarek Darwish, head of the transport and air freight mp;#8230; , as well as some European airlines, will exacerbate the air transport industrys losses mp;#8230;the aircrafts used are small. The number of aircrafts used for transport is mp;#8230;
  
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