Two farmers' mercy mission hay lorries crash bound for Somerset…
Two lorries laden with hay bound for flooded Somerset crashed in one day in this week’s storms, with one driver on a mercy mission dying, it emerged yesterday.
The tragedy happened before the National Farmers’ Union issued an appeal to farmers across the country not to set off on treks with tonnes of fodder to help flood-stricken farmers, but instead contact them and promise to deliver it when called upon in the coming weeks.
On a stormy day on Wednesday, the first tragedy happened on the M4 in…

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Train companies urged to use Facebook and Twitter to inform…
The Transport Secretary is urging train companies to communicate more using social media to stop passengers and people affected becoming frustrated by being kept in the dark.
Mr McLoughlin said: “I have asked the train operating companies to do a lot more as far as the social media network is concerned which they are doing. I think that is one of the very frustrating parts for people is trying to get information.
“There’s a lot of people that use the railways that don’t necessarily use social…

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Nice runners, one very careless owner
The four-wheeled stars of the Bond films are gearing up for a new show at the London Film Museum.The cars, including the white Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me which famously doubled as a submarine, will feature in the Bond in Motion exhibition from March 21. Also on show will be the Rolls-Royce Phantom III from Goldfinger and the Aston Martin DB5 from GoldenEye.The exhibition, at the museum’s Covent Garden site, will include props, miniature models and action sequence boards from all the…

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New West rail link to Heathrow planned as Somerset fights back
People from across the West will be able to take a train straight to Heathrow airport after a £500 million plan to construct a new line – but it won’t be open for another seven years.
The three-mile long tunnel will cost around £100,000 a yard to construct and will link the Great Western mainline just east of Slough with Terminal 5 with a tunnel under the M4 and M25.
If given the go-ahead, work on the tunnel could begin in two years’ time, and be finished by 2021. Until then,…
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