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The airspace above 20 of our busiest airports is being changed to create 25 mile "motorways of the sky". It should save time, fuel and reduce noise under some flight paths but risks blight under new routes CAGNE HACAN UK Civil Aviation Authority The Aviation Environment Federation tinyurl.com/2e4eehpw

The first black woman to be ordained by C of E fights to keep her job after church tried to bring in mainly white leadership to replace her and parish council Yvonne Clarke spoke to me about the racist abuse she has suffered in 7 year saga Leigh Day tinyurl.com/yufn5tna

Carmakers have been pushing touchscreens which force motorists to take eyes off road for basic driving tasks Now new safety rules from Euro NCAP require trad controls for indicators, hazard lights, horn, windscreen wipers, eCall SOS Edmund King OBE SMMT tinyurl.com/3bv8b3nu

Almost 1,800 Alexander Dennis electric buses recalled by operators in London, Leeds Manchester because of fire risk warning from Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency After a series of intense blazes in January this is a serious setback to plans to electrify our bus fleets Leigh Day tinyurl.com/33u3rmvt

A tremendous example of how snow can build up to such exceptional depths on the Ben. I’ve seen 15m drifts in August near this location.

From 6 July, 90% of new cars on sale in Britain will cajole drivers breaking the speed limit to slow down The government chose not to follow the EU in making #ISA mandatory- but few car brands will find it worthwhile to strip out the software for GB tinyurl.com/ypnu99du

The pockmarked, potholed roads of Britain have become a metaphor for the state of the country, so how come Blackpool,until recently ranked most deprived, has led the way in fixing them? Clue: Resurface the worst roads, stop firefighting, intervene early tinyurl.com/3fwcphjy

Working for The Sunday Times is my dream job. But the real privilege is working with the best journalists on Fleet Street. But how many do you follow and read? With The Times and The Sunday Times paywall down this weekend let me introduce you to the best of the best 🧵 1/n

For this weekend only, the paywall is lifted on the Times and Sunday Times website to show you what you're missing. A trove of brilliant journalism from The Times and The Sunday Times archive is free. Take a look right now

"Smile and the world smiles with you"- that's why we have emoji-style signs on the road, to "nudge" motorists into observing the speed limit. But some signs no longer display speed of worst offenders because some are deliberately speeding up instead tinyurl.com/mwpsfaju

A £1.2bn upgrade of East Coast Main Line was supposed to slash journey times from London to Edinburgh to 4 hours to woo air passengers. More than two years on, the rail industry has still not agreed a new timetable. We'll have to wait until June or Dec '25 tinyurl.com/36z3y93j

This dreamy photo of Evenepoel, Pogacar and Vingegaard on the gravel yesterday by Russ Ellis is a thing of beauty 🚴‍♂️🌤️🚴‍♂️☁️🚴‍♂️😍 #TDF2024 cyclingimages.co.uk/6xz7933ip41gi1…

IT outage: airlines won’t need to pay compensation for flight disruption says ⁦UK Civil Aviation Authority⁩, the watchdog tasked with protecting passenger rights (airlines will have to reimburse food, hotel, transport expenses) ⁦The PC Agency⁩ ⁦Louise Haigh⁩ thetimes.com/article/36f83f…

British housing at its finest - setting, scale, landscape, proportion, details, and finesse all completely absent! Via Robin Griffiths

Great article in The Times and The Sunday Times by Nicholas Hellen on Stan.. Free AI road surveying app for a mobile the public can use. To highlight the awful condition of our roads. Data so far, estimates there's 11.5m potholes/defects on UK roads thetimes.com/uk/transport/a…

Breaking: Rosie Duffield quits Labour with blast at Starmer’s “staggering hypocrisy” over freebies row. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

‘She could have become a female Philby’. A blog at profpurvis.com on my research with Jeff Hulbert about Jenifer Hart which is the basis of the Sunday Times story.

I’ve written a blog about the research I did with Jeff Hulbert which led to this article by Nicholas Hellen. It’s at profpurvis.com

Yes, yes, yes to changing the rules on teenage driver’s licences, like many other countries. A teenager in the driver’s seat with several young friends in the car…..terrifies me. ⁦Nicholas Hellen⁩ thetimes.com/article/bbfb5d…

REVEALED: The King and Prince William are funding their private lifestyles by secretly levying millions of pounds a year of charges from the armed forces, the NHS, state schools, charities, mining companies and the general public. thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…