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0Report: UK man erects Jeremy Clarkson scarecrow to slow traffic 1338228120
One creative family in the UK has found a new way to curb speeding. Shelia Hodgkinson and her son, Christopher, put up a scarecrow dressed as a police officer. The dummy wears a high-visibility vest, toy officer hat and wields a hair dryer for a radar gun. Amusingly, it also sports a printout of ...
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Report: Great Britain set to introduce laws making "drug driving" a criminal offense 1337169600
It's taken three years but the Great Britain is finally ready to introduce laws to make driving while impaired by illegal and legal drugs against the law. While Britain's Home Office waitied for approval of a mobile drug-testing unit – currently drug testing is done at the police station ...
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Green: Some cars to be as clean as electric train travel by 2020 1335643320
Ex-Ford engineer Richard Parry-Jones is now chairman-designate of the UK's Network Rail. Having looked into the futures of both car and train development, he believes that by the end of this decade the most Earth-friendly internal-combustion engine cars will be about as polluting, on a ...
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Report: Government warning sparks fuel-buying surge in UK 1333045800
The UK is currently experiencing a run on fuel after a government minister warned citizens to stock up ahead of a possible strike by British fuel tanker drivers. Despite the fact that a strike is anything but certain, and must also be preceded by a week-long warning period, Britain's Petrol ...
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Official: Renault chops UK lineup in half 1328463060
Renault has a wide array of products in its portfolio. In its home market it offers a baker's dozen model lines, and when you get down to bodystyles the range ratchets up past 20. While we don't get any of them in North America, the United Kingdom remains a vital market for the French automaker. ...
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Study: UK insurer says "reckless fog light drivers" cause 300,000 accidents a year 1328025720
It would probably be easier for researchers to change tracks and start telling us what doesn't cause cancer or obesity or car accidents. Latest on the list of automotive smash-up causes, according to a study by UK insurer Swiftcover, are drivers leaving their fog lights on in good visibility. The ...
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Video: Coastal UK windstorm brings a different kind of whiteout 1325525220
Now that winter is upon us, you can expect to see lots of news stories about cars driving through intense blizzard conditions. This, though it certainly looks the part, isn't one of those times. Although it appears that the white stuff falling from the sky in the videos after the jump is heavy ...
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Study: Nearly half of Brits surveyed name their cars... do you? [w/poll] 1324600200
A new study commissioned by British parking lot operator NCP has found that nearly half of all UK drivers name their vehicles. Researchers questioned a total of 3,000 UK drivers ranging in age from 17 to 45 to determine whether or not they have a special moniker for their vehicle. The study also ...
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Video: Watch Fifth Gear drive across England in a brand-new Lada Niva 1324339140
If you happen to have a soft spot for ugly, inexpensive four-wheel-drive machines that can outperform substantially newer and more expensive vehicles, don't watch the video after the jump. If you choose not to heed our guidance, you may just find yourself desperately searching for a way to get ...
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Report: UK Parliament comes down on BBC over Jeremy Clarkson 1323808200
Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, has been forced to go to bat for Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson after the television host jokingly suggested striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their own families. Yep. That sounds like Clarkson to us. According to the UK's ...

