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Government-backed scheme aims to crack down on road users who breach legal noise limits Noise-detecting traffic cameras will be trialled in four areas in England in an attempt to crack down on “boy racers” who rev engines and use illegal exhausts, the Department for Transport has announced. The so-called noise cameras will be installed on the roadside in Bradford on Tuesday, before a rollout in Bristol, Great Yarmouth and Birmingham over the next two months. Continue reading… ​Government-backed scheme aims to crack down on road users who breach legal noise limitsNoise-detecting traffic cameras will be trialled in four areas in…

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Housing campaigners say growth in holiday lets will turn seaside towns into ‘theme parks for the wealthy’ Hardship and heartbreak as Devon families lose homes to Airbnb lets A sharp rise in the number of Airbnb listings in coastal areas of England and Wales has prompted fears that some seaside areas will become “theme parks for the wealthy”. The number of “entire places” for rent in coastal spots in England and Wales increased by 56% between 2019 and 2022, compared with 15% in non-coastal areas, according to analysis. Continue reading… ​Housing campaigners say growth in holiday lets will turn seaside…

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PM urged to increase windfarm capacity and expand energy company obligation to make more homes efficient If Liz Truss is looking to give her leadership a new start, a cross-party group of MPs has suggested some answers, in the form of a 10-point wishlist for climate and nature. Tripling the capacity of floating offshore windfarms, restoring 30% of the UK’s saltmarshes and seagrass meadows, and expanding the existing energy company obligation to make more homes efficient, are among the recommendations by the MPs on the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on the environment. Continue reading… ​PM urged to increase windfarm capacity…

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Exclusive: regulator warns ‘patients will suffer’ if growing group of medics in NHS restricted mainly to hospitals Thousands of doctors are being prevented from working in overstretched GP surgeries across the UK because of unnecessary “red tape”, leaving NHS patients experiencing “unprecedented” waits for care, the head of the doctors’ regulator in the UK has said. Charlie Massey, the chief executive of the General Medical Council, said barriers that stopped medics from being deployed to meet areas of high demand, such as in primary care, must be removed urgently if the NHS workforce crisis was to be resolved and access…

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