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UK opens up more driving test slots to help reduce backlog

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency says learners booking tests earlier has contributed to rising demand

The Guardian - UK

The huge amount of people waiting for a driving test amid backlog

The number of learner drivers with a future practical driving test booking in Britain has reached a record high of 668,128 by the end of September, marking a 15% increase from the previous year. This surge indicates a significant backlog, which the DVSA attributes to increased demand and people booking…

The Independent UK

More than 680,000 people waiting for a driving test as backlog continues

Tests can be booked up to 24 weeks in advance, with new slots released on a rolling basis

The Independent UK

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More than 668,000 people waiting for a driving test amid backlog

More tests are being made available to learners.

Evening Standard

Reports of licence plate cloning rise by a third in two years

Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart warned the increase is a result of ‘wider criminality’.

Evening Standard

MPs agree to overturn ban on councils setting up bus companies

Bus routes which councils consider ‘socially necessary’ are set to receive protections.

Evening Standard

Ban new floating bus stops to protect disabled people – Tories

Shadow transport minister Jerome Mayhew accused the Government of being ‘deaf to the blind and not prepared to take effective action’.

Evening Standard

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Minister urges families to use £3 bus fare cap to visit attractions

Minister for local transport Simon Lightwood urged people to plan days out by bus ‘without worrying’ about the cost of travel.

Evening Standard

Government lifts ban on developing land reserved for bridge project axed in 2008

The Thames Gateway Bridge scheme in east London would have connected Newham to Greenwich.

Evening Standard

Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce holds 'constructive' meeting in bid to reopen key London road link

The cost of fully repairing and reopening the bridge to motor vehicles was last estimated at £250m

Evening Standard

Louise Haigh puts Labour’s socialist agenda on the ‘fast track’ with accelerated bus public ownership plan

Exclusive: Transport secretary Louise Haigh is set to accelerate her bid to undo Margaret Thatcher’s legacy on public transport

The Independent UK

Elizabeth line 'won't be seized from TfL' under Government plan to renationalise UK railways

Lizzie line and London Overground will both remain under mayor’s control

Evening Standard

Minister hopes driving test backlog will be cleared ‘within next few months’

Transport minister Richard Holden said waiting lists were coming down after concerns were raised by MPs.

The Independent UK

BBC blunder sees Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross completely mislabelled

DOUGLAS Ross doesn't seem to have made a very big impact during his time as Scottish Tory leader ...

The National (Scotland)

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The Independent UK

Simon Clarke will serve as Minister for the North, Tory chairman says

There was some doubt over whether Liz Truss would follow through on her reported pledge to create the position.

The Independent UK

Parliament’s two new MPs take their seats in the House of Commons

Labour’s Simon Lightwood and Richard Foord, of the Lib Dems, triumphed in recent by-elections.

Daily Mirror

'People are fed up with Boris' - voters hit out after Tory by-election defeats

Labour regained Wakefield from the Tories, while the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority to take Tiverton and Honiton in the Tories' southern heartlands

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Accent discrimination is alive and kicking

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The Independent UK

Boris Johnson told to quit by Tory grandee after double by-election defeat

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard urged the Cabinet to consider resigning.

Chronicle Live

Wakefield's new Labour MP Simon Lightwood grew up 'in poverty' in South Shields

The former King George V Comp pupil took the 'red wall' seat of Wakefield from the Conservatives and pledged to stand up for people in poverty

Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: Wakey-wakey Boris, you've lost another MP

Pressure mounts on Prime Minister as Labour win back a 'red wall' Northern seat

The Independent UK

Tory MPs fearful of losing their seats as Johnson leads party to double defeat

The PM vowed to ‘keep going’ after his authority was dealt a series of blows, including the resignation of party co-chairman Oliver Dowden.

The Independent UK

If the Tories had any decency, they would get out of the way – Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer celebrated the party’s by-election victory in Wakefield.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer: Wakefield win shows Labour on track for government

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party’s triumph in the Yorkshire red wall seat of Wakefield showed he was on course to win the next general election.

The National (Scotland)

Oliver Dowden quits as Tory chairman after Johnson's double by-election defeat

OLIVER Dowden has resigned as chairman of the Conservative Party after it suffered two by-election defeats, saying in a letter to Prime Minister…

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