The i reports on the growing pressure to scrap smart motorways amid rising deaths linked to the roads and concerns over their cost.
For a second day running, the i newspaper’s lead story is about the reported ban on new smart motorways, and the mounting pressure to scrap the entire network across Britain amid safety concerns. The paper reported on Thursday that none of the planned new roads would go ahead.
Its Good Friday edition turns its attention to the families of some of those who have died on the roads. “It’s the existing smart motorways that are killing us,” a widow of a man who died on the M1 tells the paper.
Cliff Notes As of today, drivers using London‘s Blackwall Tunnel must pay a toll, coinciding with the opening of the
Sir Keir Starmer announced plans to relax electric vehicle manufacturing rules in response to US tariffs that affect carmakers, particularly Jaguar Land Rover, which will “pause” shipments to the US.
An elderly British couple, Peter and Barbie Reynolds, have been detained in a high-security prison in Afghanistan since 1 February, with their son stating they have “never heard one accusation or one charge.”
Izaiah Smith, a 15-year-old boy, died after an incident in a lake at Beckenham Place Park in Lewisham, with emergency teams recovering him late on Friday evening.
Southampton makes Premier League history by becoming the first team to be relegated with seven games remaining, following a 3-1 loss to Tottenham.
A man in his 50s was shot and killed in Stanley, County Durham, following reports of a disturbance on Elm Street.
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