Derbyshire Police Officers Sent To London As Disorder Continues
Chesterfield Post
Police are today warning drivers not to tamper with Speed Cameras and anyone who tries to destroy the units risks serious injury and even death. More… We all enjoy the warmer weather but police have issued warnings after an elderly couple's house was …

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Radio hit Ed Reardon makes stage debut in Edinburgh
The Guardian
Photograph: Murdo Macleod He is the malcontent freelance writer whose stock-in-trade hackwork includes ghosting The Stig's Book of Speed Cameras. He lost the house in the divorce and now lives in a Berkhamsted bedsit with his cat, Elgar, …

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Murder probe latest: Police given extra time to question suspect
Lancashire Evening Post
He added: “It is a very nice area. Some of the houses on there are rented and some are owned but it is very well looked after. “The biggest issue down there up to now has been a bit of speeding.” Anybody with any information is asked to call police on …

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We Know Nothing yet, Except That we are all to Blame for These Riots
Huffington Post (blog)
With police cars speeding past at regular intervals, away from us and towards London, there would not have been much left to stop them if they had happened. But then the closest Richmond has got to a riot was when Waitrose nearly ran out of pappardelle …
The damaged betting shop of bookmakers William Hill in Ealing Broadway, a 10 …Calcutta Telegraph

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The riots in Britain: a warning to the bourgeoisie
In Defense of Marxism (blog)
Every attempt to restore the economic equilibrium only serves to undermine the social and political equilibrium. That will not be solved by speeding up the action of the courts and filling the already crowded prisons. New explosions are being prepared. …

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MP says riot response has been too slow
Portsmouth News
The vehicles carrying police were speeding to where the worst of the problems are. It's really scary, like something out of a disaster movie.' Police in London have reported every single cell in the city is now full, and that 5500 officers have been …

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Driver fined after making offensive gestures to Speed Watch volunteers (Thornbury)
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
"They are trained by Avon and Somerset police and carry out roadside speed checks at places where local residents tell us they are worried about speeding drivers. "Since the scheme began In October last year they have been verbally abused and even had …

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Michelin invests in cycle helmet initiative
Tyrepress.com
Legally enforceable 20mph limits were also activated outside eight Staffordshire schools in March in a drive to put the brakes on speeding motorists. Eight Tamworth schools on main roads are piloting the special part time 20mph zones – some of the …

Warwickshire Police sent to help at Birmingham looting
Leamington Spa Today
Our primary way of dealing with this will be to arrest and bring to justice as many people as possible by speeding up processes. “We have contingency plans in place tonight which will see over 400 officers working extended shifts across the West …

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Scotland has safer roads
Brechin Advertiser
“Safety Cameras are funded through a grant from the Scottish Government in the interests of making communities stronger and safer by deterring speeding and red light running.” Kathleen Braidwood, ROSPA Road Safety Officer added: “With an average of ten …
Calls for more yellow speed cameras in ScotlandTRL – Independent Transport Research

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