One of London's poshest streets, Savile Row, is to be renamed to Tailor Street in a bid to distance itself from Jimmy Savile.
"We don't know for certain just what Jimmy Savile has done or not done," said Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who is orga...
In a bid to help the blind and partially sighted, a new scheme of Street Braille is to be rolled out across the UK after a successful trial in Stockport.
Over the coming weeks, bumps will appear on pavements across Britain's streets informing the...
There was travel chaos today, as the M40 was closed after someone dumped a lorry load of mini Bounty bars on the northbound carriageway.
Over five tonnes of the coconut filled chocolatey treat were left on the motorway between 3:30 and 4:15am this...
A new development on Britain's roads is causing concern in Whitehall. A truck has gone missing 'somewhere in the Midlands' after falling down a hole in the road.
Passers by looked in shocked horror as the truck carrying a load of furniture plunge...
Britain's many, many HGV drivers have today made a heartfelt appeal to the public to end the constant discrimination against their profession.
"It's not on", said Steve Bloke, a member of pro-haulage organization, The Wagons Are The Solution, "peo...
A third of motorists are happy with the state of Britain's roads, a survey has revealed.
The figure of 32 per cent is down from 64 per cent who were happy with the roads when the survey began in 2008.
Carried out by the Institute of Civil Engin...
The building of the new Aberdeen bypass could be delayed by up to two years because of a legal challenge, it has been claimed .
Road Sense, the campaign group set up to oppose the proposed road on environmental grounds, said it had instructed lawy...
Britain's busiest road is not the M25, or indeed, any road in London, it is the A628 in Mottram, Greater Manchester. The road that connects Manchester to Yorkshire via the Woodhead and Snake passes funnels tens of thousands of cars a day from the M67...
The recession is over but the North Carolina Department of Transportation has decided to convert it's 200 miles of I-95 to a gravel surfaced highway in a bid to save the states' floundering budget.
After several meetings earlier this year the gene...
There'll be no more 'nipping down the road in the car to pick up fish 'n' chips, if Britain adopts 'Pay as you go'.
It is in the planning stages that British drivers will soon have to pay per mile travelled. Crazy though it may sound it has a lot of benefits:
People will walk more and so get much needed exercise.
Petrol bills will go down (BUT this COULD have an adverse effect by driving...
Cambridge has announced plans to introduce even more traffic lights on the city's busy ring road in an attempt to force residents to accept the congestion charge.
Latest plans show additional pot-holes and collapsed sewers to be investigated in 6...
The Highways Agency - the department responsible for closing Britain's roads - is to be forced to close.
In a shocking revelation we have learned that the Highways Agency has run out of traffic cones and is even appealing to students, stag parties...
A concerned father from Devon was getting a bit worried about all three of his children getting put in to detention for being late for classes three days in a row.
They said; "But daddy! It's not our fault we are late for lessons, it's the traf...
Residents of a Devon suburb are becoming increasingly concerned at the number of road humps and cameras appearing in their neighbourhood, claiming that their presence are in fact CREATING significant hazards for both motorists as well as pedestrians.
(Washington) President Obama announced yesterday massive road construction planned nationwide enlisting aid from thousands of unemployed people.
The "Pot Hole Brigade" as they've been dubbed are excited to be back working again.
Finding employm...
Research has today revealed that roads in the UK are equally as dangerous as the extremely dangerous UK drivers who use them.
Despite the deployment of revenue cameras every 100 metres on open roads, a pedestrian is still knocked down every five m...
Twelve years of Labour government swiftly went below the surface of the sea today, and left many of their MPs struggling against a tide of derision and resentment.
'It were awful', said part-time embezzler and full-time liar Hazel Blears, MP, 'one...
Interstate 40, Amarillo, Texas -- After twelve years of public service, the Department of Transportation has announced the retirement of one of the agency's most durable traffic cones.
"It's a sad day today," highway worker, Mike Davey, said as he...