Britain’s pothole plague

The average car in the UK is the oldest it has ever been. That’s the headline from the RAC Foundation, which has found that, as of the end of last year, the average car in the UK was nine years and 10

ourworldindata.org A century ago, all you needed to get behind the wheel of a car legally was a paper licence, which cost the equivalent of about 25p today, says Hannah Ritchie. No driving lessons or

THE revelation that road policing numbers are at a 10-year low (Page 18) may not be a surprise, but it should concern all law-abiding motorists. The scourge of our roads are the people who think that

Fly-tipping is a persistent problem in the UK, having escalated during the Covid-19 pandemic and since. The latest set of annual Department for the Envronment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) statistic

THERE are now over 20 per cent fewer road police officers patrolling the streets than a decade ago, according analysis of the latest Home Office data by the RAC. But has this made our streets lawless

In October 2023, Brechin, a Scottish town near the North Sea, was hit by a wall of water that changed it forever. During Storm Babet, a record 150 to 200mm of rain fell in parts of the area. The resul