Parking permit is in the post…
It is a common excuse, blaming the absence of a piece of paperwork on it being delayed in the post.And now the Royal Mail might have suffered itself, when parking permits for its fleet of vans in Shepton Mallet failed to arrive and led to ten vans getting parking fines.The vans parked in Great Ostry car park in the Somerset town were slapped with parking fines on Sunday.A Mendip District Council spokeswoman implied the reason behind the charges was that season tickets had not been renewed. She…
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The Cornish genius of Richard Trevithick revealed in book on…
The work of locomotive pioneers such as the West’s Richard Trevithick changed the world by paving the way for the industrial age. Janet Hughes discovers one of the historians who is keeping their legacy aliveTheir steam locomotives meant heavy raw materials and people could be transported at speeds and distances never considered before.Most of us have heard of the Puffing Billy and Stephenson’s Rocket, but they are far from the only legacy retained from the era in which Britain led the world….

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Video: Airbus A35-XWB makes first UK landing at Cotswold Airport…
A new generation aeroplane has made its first ever landing on British soil – in Gloucestershire.Cotswold Airport, in Kemble, played host to the new Airbus A350 XWB.The aircraft, a MSN3, was at the airport as part of its routine certification tests.It landed last Wednesday evening, and is one of the four A350 test aeroplanes currently flying.Captain Frank Chapman, the experimental test pilot said the plane had its roots in the West Country. Its landing gear was designed by…

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