Bristol is one of best places to live – without a car, ranked…
Bristol is often seen as a city which can only be negotiated by car due to its hills, often inclement weather and limited local train network,But a new study claims Bristol is actually one of the best places in the country to live in without a motor vehicle.Bristol has been ranked seventh out of 29 English towns and cities when it comes to getting around without a car. Pressure group the Campaign for Better Transport’s 2014 Car Dependency Scorecard examined provision for pedestrians,…

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As many as 10,000 Heathrow passengers were affected last week's…
As many as 10,000 passengers at Heathrow were affected by the cancellations caused by last week’s air traffic control computer failure, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has told MPs.
He said that the failure, at the Hampshire headquarters of air traffic control company Nats, caused 16,000 minutes of delays.
This compared with 126,000 minutes of delays when there was a computer glitch at the Swanwick centre in December last year.
Although Mr McLoughlin repeated his earlier statement that…

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Flood-damaged road near Ilminster, in Somerset, reopens after 10…
A flood-damaged road near Ilminster which was closed to traffic for nearly ten months has now reopened – just in time for Christmas.
Areas of the B3168 at The Beacon needed to be completely rebuilt by Somerset County Council after it suffered severe structural damage during extreme weather last winter.
The extensive repairs included a full reconstruction of sections of the highway and a new drainage system, and were completed in just seven weeks as teams pulled out all the stops to get the…

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UK airports systems failure down to a computer code written 25…
An unprecedented systems failure at the UK’s national air traffic control centre involving computer code written a quarter of a century ago was responsible for widespread disruption at British airports, it has emerged.
Richard Deakin, chief executive of Nats, the company responsible for controlling British airspace, said the software glitch was “buried” among millions of lines of code at the site in Swanwick, Hampshire.
Passengers faced travel chaos as dozens of flights at airports around the…

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