Podcasts about The Highway Code

Terence Bendixson was the Guardian's planning correspondent in the 1960s when he wrote a piece that propelled him into walking campaigning. In 1969 he joined Living Streets (then the Pedestrians' Association) when he and its founder hit it off.Foley, a London-based journalist, founded the Pedestrians Association in 1929, when motor vehicles were proliferating; he was concerned about the dangers they posed. In 1939 Evelyn Waugh described Piccadilly Circus as 'still as a photograph, broken and undisturbed'.In its early years the charity shaped road safety law, including the introduction of the first Highway Code and the driving test, 30mph speed limits and pedestrian crossings. Post-war 'The Peds' were involved in the first zebra crossings and the new offence of drink driving As TransportXtra reports.Terence Bendixson was part of the hugely successful Homes for Roads movement, as told by Steve Chambers, of Transport for New Homes https://planningtransport.co.uk/2020-03-08-homes-before-roads.html. Bendixson's book, Instead of Cars, is 50 this year:On Living Streets' pavement parking campaign; on CEO Catherine Woodhead being appointed in April 2024.Ben Plowden joined in the late 90s; he and Bendixson applied to the Esmee Fairburn Trust for £69,000, which paid for premises, staff and a rebrand. Plowden became CEO of CPRE in 2025.Dr Amit Patel: https://www.dramit.uk/; On removal of the Leicester flyover .For ad-free listening, behind-the-scenes and bonus content and to help support the podcast - head to (https://www.patreon.com/StreetsAheadPodcast). We'll even send you some stickers! We're also on Bluesky and welcome your feedback on our episode: https://bsky.app/profile/podstreetsahead.bsky.social Support Streets Ahead on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Could a simple change to the Highway Code make the roads safer for Northern Ireland's cyclists? Frank spoke to Sophie Gordon, from Cycling UK, about the idea of a 'hierarchy of road users' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long” (Ps 25: 4 – 5).I don't know if David intended this when he wrote Psalm 25, but it seems to me there is a big difference between God's Ways and His Paths. The phrase “God's Ways” in the Scriptures can refer to several things. It might be His plans or his actions, or His decisions, but it is always related to His character. His ways are who He is, seen by what He decides to do (or not do). It describes how His principles shape His will; how His wisdom drives His judgments and choices. If we were to liken these descriptions to a human analogy, God's ways are like the rules and principles of safe driving - the rules of the road or Highway Code as it is referred to in some countries. With that picture in mind, God's paths can be His directions to your destination. When we pray, “show me your ways” we are asking Him to reveal to our minds and hearts how we can drive our lives within the wise and safe boundaries of His will and within the principles of His Word. When we pray, “teach me your paths”, this overlaps with a desire to know His ways, but it is also asking for specific guidance. “Lord, what is my destination?” “How do I get there?” “Do I go the long way round, or is there a shortcut?” “Is there a blockage in the road some distance away that I don't yet see?” “Do I turn left here or right?”Sometimes I think I need to pray something like, “Lord, teach me to recognise your paths”. The Lord doesn't need to change the way He speaks, but I need to learn to how hear and discern His voice better than I do. If I am driving the car of my life too fast, the Lord's directions to take a slow detour may not be heard above the roar of the engine. The Ways of the Lord are referred to four more times in Psalm 25. God instructs sinners in His ways and the humble are taught His way. The ways of the Lord are loving and faithful and those that fear the Lord are given first-hand instruction as to the ways they should choose. Our loving Heavenly Father has much to teach us on our journey towards His destination. He wants to transform our minds and our characters to be more like His, so that while driving safely, we move with passion and purpose. He also wants to teach us how to read His map, what speed to drive down each part and where and when to stop and take a break. Sometimes we may come to a fork in the road and wonder which way to go. He may whisper “this way” to those who can hear, or He may say, “You choose. You know my ways, I have equipped and empowered you to make good decisions”. 

Cyclists and motorists can clash on our roads, often about who has priority, but what does The Highway Code say? Louise Gardner, from the law firm Hugh James, talks Adam Fleming through the key points and latest updates in the UK's road safety guide.

Cyclists shaming drivers online, fights over bike lanes, and the politics of pedal power. TV and radio presenter Jeremy Vine posts a video of a car failing to give way to him while he's riding a penny farthing. Cue angry comments hurling insults and telling him he'd be safer in a car - and sympathetic responses from fellow cyclists. What does the Highway Code actually say about priorities on the roads? What are the stats on cyclists and safety? And how and why has cycling become such a toxic topic? Presenter: Adam Fleming Producers: Simon Maybin, Simon Tulett, Nathan Gower Editor: Richard Vadon

Love hacking for hours or see it as a means to an end? In this revisited episode Liz is joined by Lou & Liz to discuss everything and anything hacking related.  The changes to the Highway Code feature, as well as how to incorporate schooling exercises into your hacking, the importance of hacking with purpose and how Hi-Viz, once seriously uncool is now a necessity. Listen for free across all podcast platforms     

#487 The Australian GP and The Highway Code. What's going wrong at Mercedes and what are Ferrari doing right? Gareth tests Zog and Alex on an important driver's guide. Plus On Speed News Bleat on Lola's return and Williams disappointment.

#487 The Australian GP and The Highway Code. What's going wrong at Mercedes and what are Ferrari doing right? Gareth tests Zog and Alex on an important driver's guide. Plus On Speed News Bleat on Lola's return and Williams disappointment.

In this week's Talking Travel, Rory shares the top tips for getting around this January whilst braving this cold and icy weather with the help of the UK's highway code. 

Episode One Hundred and Seventy Eight READ THE HIGHWAY CODE!

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcastCompetition ends on 20th December 2023. The winner will be contacted via Twitter.  Show references: https://vectis.ventures/https://robin-hill.com/https://blackgangchine.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-wray-a1b52766/Dominic Wray is the Parks Director of Vectis Ventures, the parent company of the Isle of Wights two leading attractions; Robin Hill, and the UK's oldest theme park, Blackgang Chine. After 7 years of running Blackgang Chine as the Park Manager, he stepped into his role as Parks Director to play a vital position in the planning and execution of the longer term business strategy. Having been in this role for around 15 months, he has led on some big changes and transformations within the business, as well as navigating what has been a challenging year for the leisure industry as a whole. Dominic attributes much of his success, and enjoyment of his career to the people in it. Sitting on the Management Committee for BALPPA, he is a huge advocate for industry networking and enabling peer to peer learning opportunities. He then uses this platform as a way to the develop the team that he is so passionate about, allowing them to flourish into the industry known experts of their fields. Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. On today's episode, I speak with Dominic Wray, Parks Director at Vectis Ventures. We talk about Blackgang Chine, the 180 year old attraction, and Dominic shares his three top tips on transforming processes and developing superstar people. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Welcome to the podcast, Dominic. It's great to have you on today. Dominic Wray: Thanks for having me. Looking forward to it. Kelly Molson: Everyone says that at the start, and then I give them icebreaker questions, and they hate me. But this is how the podcast always starts, so you have to do them. Right. If you could enter the Olympics for anything, what would you be Olympic level at? And we're not talking it doesn't have to be sports here. It could be like baking or Olympic level complainer. Anything goes. What's your Olympic level at? Dominic Wray: I think I would actually answer the sports based question answered that. I always, when I was growing up, wanted to play in the NBA. Basketball was a big passion of mine. So I'd say I'd want to enter the Olympics as a basketball player. Kelly Molson: Okay. And do you play now? Is this something that you are actually good at? Dominic Wray: Not so much now, no. I don't want to use the old adage if I got injured, but I did. Kelly Molson: Oh, no. Dominic Wray: We'll never know if I could have made it or not. Kelly Molson: Good one. Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous? Dominic Wray: Yeah, actually, yes, twice. Someone once said to me I look like Joel Dormot. I think he's a comedian. And some of the team seemed to think I look like Mark Wright. Kelly Molson: I know this one. So I saw the picture that Laura Baxter posted of your LinkedIn. I have to say, I did a second look, Mark. Dominic Wray: Yeah. I mean, I'll take it. I think Mark Wright's the right looking chap, so could be worse, I suppose. Kelly Molson: Okay. All right. A final one. What one thing would you make a law that isn't already? I've got a good one for this. So if I could be in charge of laws, I would make it a law that nobody could just stop in the middle of the pavement and look at their mobile phone, or walk upstairs with their mobile staring at their mobile phone, not actually looking where they're going, because it just makes me want to swipe people's legs away. Because they just stop in front of you or they walk really slowly up the stairs. That would be one of mine. Dominic Wray: I'd go with, everyone needs to learn how to go through security at an airport. There's nothing more frustrating when you get there and the person in front of you isn't aware of how to go through and then there's a bit that delays the queues. Kelly Molson: Good one. That's a really good one. They get quite shouty, the security people now, don't they? When you're queuing up like, they're shouting at you about your liquids and your jackets and you take your belts off, and I'm like, "If I take my belt off, my trousers are going to fall down. I'm not even halfway there yet." I like that one. Okay, what's your unpopular opinion? Dominic Wray: My unpopular opinion is that motorists ruined the road for cyclists. Which I'm sure will be incredibly controversial. Yeah, that's my unpopular opinion. Kelly Molson: This is going to be a controversial one and I really want to know what you think about this one, listeners. Yeah, I don't agree with you, but you are a hardcore cyclist. I'm going op guess.Dominic Wray: I do pay my road tax, drive a car myself, but yeah, someone that very much enjoys road cycling. Yeah, that is definitely my viewpoint on other motorists. Kelly Molson: I think there needs to be made room for both on the roads. There's not sufficient cycle lanes in areas where there should be sufficient cycle lanes. Although I live just outside Cambridge and Cambridge is pretty good for cyclists. If this was me, I would ban cyclists from cycling through the city centre of Cambridge, because the amount of times I've nearly been run over by cyclists in the city centre is quite a lot. Dominic Wray: I will say. Not every cyclist is respectful of most receivers. It is a two way street, quite literally. Do you understand that? Kelly Molson: I like this. Right, okay, listeners, what do you think about the unpopular opinion? I feel like I've just got myself in hot water with all my Cambridge cycling friends as well. Dominic Wray: They're all going to be kicking off. Kelly Molson: We're all in trouble. We're in trouble together, Dom. It's fine. Right, tell us a little bit about your background, because you have come into attractions not from an attractions background, and I always find this quite fascinating, how people end up within the sector. You've come from banking, right? Dominic Wray: Yes, yes. I started off my career when I left school selling houses, and then I moved into banking after that. I used to work for Lloyds Bank and one of my clients was our current HR director here, lady called Paula, and I used to see her every year. She'd come in, talk about this great place that she worked and all these fun projects she was working on and how magical it was. And I remember sort of sat there thinking, "Gosh, your job sounds really interesting and you're working on these varied projects and you're getting to experience loads of cool things." She was talking to me about fireworks events and dinosaurs and cowboys and pirates. I was thinking, "I'm saya, talking about savings accounts and loans and boring stuff that comes to banking." Dominic Wray: And then one day I saw an advert in our local paper on the island for a Park Manager role for Blackgang Chine. Which is the park that Paula worked at, and I read through it and I thought, “Okay, yeah, I can do this. It sounds like I've got the skill set to do this.” Not really knowing anything about running a visitor attraction at all. So off I went to the interview, got my job and I thought, “Oh, great, yeah, if I can sell houses and I can run a bank, the only I could run a visitor attraction.” It's just taking those skills and applying them across into a different sector. Dominic Wray: Eight or nine years later, still here now and lot of a big learning curve along the way, but yeah, not a traditional route into it, but Blackgang on the island is a very iconic visitor attraction. All the children on the island have been there, had very fond memories of coming here as a child and I just thought, “Wow, what an opportunity to wake up every day and go to work in a fun”, magical place that's the complete opposite from the confines of a bank. So I thought, “Yeah, I'm going to back myself and go for it and do it.”Kelly Molson: How weird is that? Knowing that you went there as a child as well and now you actually run the place. That's massive, isn't it? Dominic Wray: Yeah, when I'm walking around, there's lots of areas of the park that are still the same and happened for many years and they carry great sentiments or walking through certain areas and they hear certain sounds or certain smells in the park and it takes you back to being a kid every day. So it's quite a magical place to work. Kelly Molson: That's really sweet. And so what was that transition like? Because I've just got this vision of you kind of like rocking up on the first day and going, "Where do I start?". Dominic Wray: Yeah. So on day one when I arrived, the gentleman who was doing the role beforehand had left. So I had a laptop set of keys and they sort, "Off you go.. And I was like, "OK, I've got to have to work this out", which I did. I was lucky enough to go to IAAPA in Orlando and I went on a week long training course, management course there around Park Management of Visitor Attractions, which I think was really interesting, really useful, gave me a great insight into the attraction space. And then I've worked through that by learning about the various different departments and functionalities of the business along the way. But it was a big change for me to go from working for a large corporate company to moving to a family owned company. Dominic Wray: Blackgang Chine has been owned by the same family for 180 years, which is the Dabell family. So it was a big shift for me from having multiple layers of people and it taking weeks to get a decision to just having to go and speak to one person as long as they say, "Yes", you're on your way. So it's enjoyable working for a much more dynamic organization where you can pivot more quickly. And that was sort of one of the surprising things, having come from a bigger company, how quickly things can move and change. But I think that's a real positive fallout. Kelly Molson: Yeah, definitely. I love that you did like a crash course, you did like your crash course, your driver's course, you didn't do those week intensive course, you did your weeks intensive course of being a park manager and that was it into the job. So what does your role cover then? Because I know you operate across two parks at the moment, so you've got Blackgang Chine, you've got Robin Hill. What does that look like for you in terms of your role? Dominic Wray: So my role sees me overseeing the parks and the strategic position. So I look after the business of the group as a whole. I was previously the park manager of Blackgang and then over the last twelve months transitioned to a new role, Parks Director, which sees me overseeing the group from more of a strategic position. So everything from opening calendars, pricing strategy, events that we're running, health and safety, you name it, all falls under my room within the business.Kelly Molson: I love that. I guess all of those things must have been the steep learning curve from banking where you clearly are very senior role, but probably not juggling quite so much in a day.Dominic Wray: Yeah, I liken it to running lots of micro businesses. We've got a retail business, food and beverage business and events business, health and safety compliance element of the business. So yeah, lots of micro businesses within the big business as a whole really. But yeah, the regulation from banking around strict processes and procedures does translate quite nicely into business and also into health for safety as well. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And there's some of the things we're going to talk about today. So we've got three topics to cover which I'm really interested in. We've got processes and systems, we've got peer learning that we're going to talk about and then we're going to talk about people and team development. So what you just said there about what you've brought, that's one of the things that I'm really interested in terms of the processes and systems because you've been through quite a transformative process in your organisation with kind of people and process actually. What have you been able to bring from banking into the attractions world that's kind of helped you with those processes and systems? Dominic Wray: I would say I learned a lot from working in a bank. One of the things was how not to do things, I'd say. In terms of life in a bank is very black and white. It's almost sort of a computer says no culture. And that really taught me that actually in real business you've got to operate a bit more in the gray. And it's much more around how can we actually make things happen and how can we do things rather than actually that's not possible. So I always say to feeling, great, well, how are we going to work around that? How are we going to make that possible? So, since I've joined the business, we've gone through quite a large transformation. Dominic Wray: It was fair to say that when I joined, the business was very much running in a sort of historic, family orientated way of we've always done it that way. That was a phrase I heard quite a lot when I first started this. I know we've done it like that because we've always done it that way. There's sort of a lot of, "Okay, explain to me why we've done it that way and what's the approach to that?". And then over the years, we've moved into using far more digital systems. So I'm big on making sure the team can see at the various levels of the organisation, the bigger picture. And I think that then helps them understand exactly what's going on in the business as a whole. And I think that through digital optimisation of systems and processes, that really helps them do that. Dominic Wray: So, for example, on the ride side of the fence, we bought in Mobaro, which is quite a well known safety system for our daily inspections. And that just gives far better visibility right the way from the ride operator, the person checking the rides, to the duty manager, all the way up to our owner if he wants to go in on a day and see what's gone on at 10:00 before the site opens. So it's really been around pivoting the organisation into becoming early adopters of technology and systems and processes. Dominic Wray: We've also recently joined the LEAP scheme, which was quite a big jump for our industry to move away from a historical scheme that had been in place for a number of years. And were some of the first, well, one of the first parks to join that scheme.Kelly Molson: For our listeners, what is the LEAP scheme? What does that mean? Dominic Wray: So we have our rides basically inspected by an independent inspection body. And LEAP is the scheme that then oversees and checks off the regulation of that inspection body in a sort of basic format. But it had historically been done by a different organisation and LEAP have come into the marketplace. And taken a different approach to how that is done, which gives far more transparency to the operators and also the customers that are coming into sites to visit as well. But it was quite a big thing for us to say, "Okay, we're going to move away from that historic way of doing it into a newer way of doing things.". But I think as a company, because we can make decisions quite quickly, we don't have a big gain of sign off to go through as a team. Dominic Wray: We can move quite quickly on things such as that as well. Kelly Molson: I really like that kind of transparent approach that you talked about because it feels like that would help with kind of unifying the kind of organisational culture as well because people have a bit more visibility about what's going on behind the scenes, so to speak. Dominic Wray: Yeah. And I think giving people the most amount of information you can give them within their job role and position within the organisation, that level of transparency just allows them to do their job better. Because if they understand what the key metrics that they're working towards and how they're performing and actually how decisions they make on a day to day basis impact the bigger picture of how the attraction performs over a 12, 24 month ongoing period, that makes them feel much more empowered. Because then they can see, actually, I've made this change over here, and that made an impact onto the bottom line over here. Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. It gives people that sense of ownership about what they're doing as well, doesn't it? Dominic Wray: Definitely. Kelly Molson: So what do you think have been the biggest transformations that you've been able to make over that period? Dominic Wray: I would say collaborative working. The organisation used to very much be I look after food and beverage, I look after retail, I look after operations and we don't talk to each other. That's my lane. Kelly Molson: So those little micro companies just kind of like they worked in their little silos and didn't really talk. Dominic Wray: Yeah, exactly. Whereas what we've done across a number of years is change the structure of the way the parks run on a day to day basis. So each of the heads of those departments do take turns of doing duty management shifts. So that gives them the opportunity to experience the park as a complete 360, interact with different departments, understand how other departments work and function. Most importantly, that gets them in front of customers in different areas of the business as well, then that helps them understand, okay, in retail or operations, we're allowing people into the park in this way. If we do this is a domino effect that then actually knocks onto something that could happen in food and beverage later on. Dominic Wray: So I think again, that goes back to giving them that bigger picture of what's going on in the company and for them to think that actually we are all one team and what someone does in one department does have a knock on effect and impact onto other departments as well. And I think that's really taken place by opening the business up a lot more. Historically, were quite closed off as an organisation, and I've been very big on getting the staff out, seeing other attractions, going, speaking to other people in other attractions, finding out how things work in other parks, other businesses. Dominic Wray: And I think that's really then enabled us to open up a lot more and we've done that also through being members of BALPPA as well, which has been quite a key point of being able us to open up the business a lot more and experience the team, to experience things outside the company as well.Kelly Molson: Yeah. So peer learning is one of the things that I'd love to explore a bit more, because I think just going back to what you said about those organisational visits, you've got a few team members that are really active on LinkedIn, so I see a lot of the things that you do as an organisation, and it's really impressive. So you do strategic team visits to other attractions to look at how they're operating, how their attractions are running, what events. You even go to some of their events and see how they've been put on. And that comes back to this whole thing about the sector being really supportive and collaborative with each other, because that never used to happen in my world. In agency world, we are far more open now than we ever were. Kelly Molson: But I couldn't imagine ten years ago me rocking up to someone else's agency and going, "Could I just sit in on your team while you work through this project and see how your project management process works?". Piss off. I would be able to do that to a number of agencies that I know there. They'd be really happy to share, but it feels like it's kind of always been that way in the sector for attractions. Is that the case? Dominic Wray: Yeah, 100%. I mean, that was one of the biggest things that shocked me coming into a new career, was actually you can go and ask people for help and ask them how they do things and they're more than willing to share the challenges and issues that they have, but also sharing the solutions to those problems as well. I mean, when I worked at Lloyds, I can't imagine ever walking over the road to Natwest and going, "Hi, can you explain to me how you do this?". They'd say, “Bugger of.”Kelly Molson: You all will have exactly the same problem. So working together to solve that problem surely helps the greater good, rather than. Dominic Wray: Everyone has the same problems. They just have it on varying scales of economy, so we might have it on this scale. You go to a bigger park, they've got the same problem, just magnified by ten. Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. But you mentioned BALPPA, which I know is an incredible organisation that you're members of. How has being kind of a member of that organisation what's it brought to the attraction and to yourself? Dominic Wray: I think it's really been transformational for the attraction, myself and the team. I think having an organisation that these business and individuals completely immerse themselves in from a learning standpoint is so valuable to me. I think it's almost like a black book. It is a black book of other attractions that you can gain access to for their knowledge, experience, processes and procedures. And as someone that came into the industry having not worked in it previous to that, I found the organisation so valuable in terms of my own personal learning and the learning of the site as well. So as an attraction, we've massively benefited from being members of BALPPA. We hosted the summer conference this year, which was a big deal for us. Dominic Wray: So everyone BALPPA came to the island and they spent a day at Blackgang Chine and Robin Hill, and we hosted a gala evening dinner at Robin Hill, which was fantastic. And that was great to show it off to peers and people within the industry and for them to kind of understand about what we do. Because obviously I go along to a lot of events with a lot of the other team and we're all sort of banging the drum about the company. But it's great for people to come and experience that firsthand as well. So I think it's helped broaden the profile of the business and also the individuals within the team as well. I think that's been brilliant for the team's personal development, but also really for their learning. Dominic Wray: The fact that there's people in the organisation that you can go and talk to about everything from ticketing strategies through to mechanical issues you've got on rides, or the fact that people are so open that you can ring them up and say, "Hey, I've got this issue with this, how do I fix it?"  I'll bring this chap, he's the person you need to go and call about this. Or, I'm a bit stuck for this spare part. Yeah, phone this person, they'll be able to get it to you quicker." And everyone's so supportive and willing to help each other. It's quite amazing to see, as I said, coming from a space where that is the complete opposite of that. It's brilliant to be involved in an organisation where if all the attractions are winning, the space is winning and the industry is winning. Dominic Wray: And I think everyone's mature enough to realise that we've all got our own individual niches and we're not all competing against each other. So actually, by helping each other and people having amazing experiences across all attractions, it just benefits the industry as a whole. Kelly Molson: Yeah, completely. It just comes back to that whole working in partnerships and not in silos again, doesn't it? You mentioned about people, this is the other thing that I really want to talk about, because you've got brilliant people that work at your organisation and you call them superstar people, which I really love. I guess BALPPA is one of the things that you've put in place to kind of help them because like you said, other team members, not just yourself, can go along to these meetings and they can benefit from the peer to peer learning that you get at those events. And actually just the networking, not even just I've been to a BALPPA event. And what struck me about it was the knowledge that was shared at that meeting. Kelly Molson: And what struck me about it was the knowledge that was shared at that meeting, it was so authentic and so transparent, actually, that you got a lot from just the talks, but actually you get even more from just networking from people that are in the same position as you, at a different attraction again, have those same kind of challenges and same kind of things that they need to talk about. And being able to just have them on speed dial is so beneficial. What else have you kind of put in place to help develop some of your superstar people there, though? Dominic Wray: So, as you mentioned, I think the team going along to BALPPA events has been a big thing for them. I think when you're doing your day to day job, you're running at 100 miles an hour, it's quite hard to sort of benchmark yourself against other people in the industry. And I've noticed that when team members have gone along to BALPPA events, they sort of come back with a sense of,” I could hold a conversation with someone from a bigger park. I'm competent at knowing what I'm doing”, which I know that they know that, but I think that helps reinforce confidence within them as well. And I just think they're fantastic spaces for developing the team's personal confidence and, as you said, their wider personal network as well, and knowledge and understanding. Dominic Wray: I mean, we've seen some of our team members, Laura, who's one of our superstars in our marketing team, she did a keynote speech on Christmas, at the BALPPA marketing conference. And it was so good. I was so proud to see her go there, deliver that, she'd been in the office working hard on it, and then just to stand up and absolutely smash it and see people's reactions to her explaining about that piece was just brilliant. And James, who oversees our site and services, he's due to do a talk on the install of our new rides at the latest BALPPA for Health and Safety Conference that's coming up as well. So I think it's brilliant for the team to be able to be on that platform and develop themselves as well. Dominic Wray: Other things that we do in an organisation as well. I think I'm really big on giving the team space to be able to do their job safely. I think it's good to allow them to give them the space to they're the experts in that area. I very much see my role is overseeing that and making sure all the pieces are coming together. But quite often I will say to them, "Guys, what do you think about this particular thing? Or how should we approach that?". Because ultimately, they're the experts within the business, within their chosen fields, and I'm big on giving them the opportunity to be the experts in those areas. I also think it's great to take some time out to learn more about them as individuals and their roles and their interests within those roles as well. Dominic Wray: So, for example, when Laura joined the business, went on a two day marketing course together. It was a conference that she wanted to attend, but I said, "I'll go with you. I'm keen to learn more about the in depth elements of marketing and I think it'd be a good shared experience for us.". And I think that then just enables the team to feel, actually I'm interested in their department and how they work and operate. And I think there's always something that you can learn from everyone that you meet and interact with. So I'm big on doing that. And then the final thing I'll say is really let them be a star in their area and promote that. Dominic Wray: I mean, the example of Laura with the marketing conference talk was brilliant. It was great to see her on stage representing the business, but also the spotlight was on her and it was about her in that moment, which was fantastic. And I think that's really good when the team feel like they can be superstars in their own arenas of their chosen fields. Kelly Molson: I love that. I remember that talk really vividly. It was really heartwarming, actually. And there was a really personal element to it as well. And you could see how much she was connected to the subject matter that she was speaking to as well. This is something that we talked about prior to coming on today, about how you've kind of supported your team as well as they kind of move through their careers and they move through what they're doing at the attractions. And one of the things that you've really helped them start to develop is their personal brands. Such a hot topic. It's one I love talking about. Kelly Molson: It's something that I've really tried to do as best as I can over the last kind of I think just prior to the pandemic, actually, I kind of started to think about what is it that I want people to remember me about, what's important to me? And if I've got a platform, how am I going to use it to talk about the things that I think are important and that other people should hopefully find as important as me. Kelly Molson: And I think what you've done there is kind of facilitate that for your team, which is really lovely to see because everybody, like you said, is working for the whole of the organisation, but they all have their own kind of individual specialisms. How have you kind of helped people or encouraged people to develop their personal brands? What are the kind of things that you've done there? Dominic Wray: I've encouraged them to get out there, engage with other people, engage within different networks. I think LinkedIn is a great tool for that as well. I think the team all do lots of amazing things every day that we all see and know that they do. But I'm big on encouraging them about, shouting about that. I think as general British people, we're quite sort of we don't like self promotion too much, don't like talking about ourselves too much. And I think having Laura, to be fair, join the team earlier in the year, who's big on her LinkedIn content and big on talking about what's going on out there, has really helped the team and pushed everyone forwards with doing that. And I've really encouraged them. Dominic Wray: You might not think anyone's going to take value from the content you're putting out or discussing that, but actually they will because there's probably someone somewhere looking at that thinking, "How do I overcome that problem?” Or “I've got a similar ride to that we're just in the process of refurbishing, maybe I can reach out to them and find out how they're doing that." So really believing in themselves and that they really are superstars in their area and they should be promoting that and talking about how great they are in the businesses that they work for. Kelly Molson: Have you seen that encouragement kind of help with some of the team's own self confidence as well? They're kind of braver about putting themselves forward for certain things. Dominic Wray: Yeah, yeah, massively. James, who oversees both of our sites from the site and services viewpoint, started off within the maintenance team one of those sites and he's worked his way up through the business. Now he's responsible for health and safety across both of them. He oversaw the install of our new ride which went in at the beginning of the year as well and it's been fantastic to see him grow and his confidence grow and develop within that. And now he's been asked to go forward, as I said, to do a talk next month about that ride install going ahead, which will be his first sort of public speaking gig, and I'll be very much there to support him along with that as well. So it's been great to watch the team develop and grow along with that and their confidence as well. Kelly Molson: That's really lovely to see. Well, I think in the past, people probably haven't wanted to highlight certain people, do you know what I mean? If we put these people out in the world, other people might steal them from us. But I think you have to develop your people and you have to let them shine in the roles that they're in because they'll just get better and better and better. So it's really lovely to see that you're encouraging that. I think it's such an important part of running a successful organisation now.Dominic Wray: Yeah. And I think the team are happier from that. I think if you give them the freedom to go out and experience other attractions and speak to other people at various different levels of organisations, they feel happier where they are. I think if you kind of constrain them and say, "Oh no, we can't allow you to go and speak to these people. We can't allow you to go and visit them because they might poach you or they might offer you a different job." Then they're going to be thinking, "Actually, maybe the grass is greener on the other side.". Kelly Molson: This is not the company for me after all. Dominic Wray: Yeah, exactly. And I think there's nothing wrong with them being having their own personal brand within the wider brand of the business. I think that's good for them. Kelly Molson: Yeah, I think so too. It's really brilliant to see what you've been developing there. Right. I would love it if you could share some top tips for our listeners. We always get our guests to share top tips. Three top tips on processes and people development that you'd encourage other attractions to adopt. Dominic Wray: My first one would definitely be, and I've already mentioned it, but get your team out visiting other attractions. Can't express enough how much they'll learn from those experiences. I think if you set it out in the right position to say, "Okay, guys, we're going to go and visit this event, this is what we're going to be looking for. This is what I want us to take back from that. When we come back, we're going to have a clear debrief to go through key learnings of that and how we're going to implement that into our business. You can still obviously have a great enjoyable experience."Dominic Wray: That's one of the best things about working in this industry is going on an R & D trip, but getting to go on a couple of roller coasters and get scared, go to the scare mazes or whatever else you're going to be doing. I think it's great team building as well. It's great for the team to go and see that. And what I find amazing is it can be anything from the way a site manages its waste or the layout of a queue line or actually I liked on the way in how this person upselled this ticket for me. There's so many things you can gain from that. Dominic Wray: I think when you're going into an attraction, looking at that from that perspective, I just think it's brilliant and there's no kind of training course that you can send anyone on that will deliver that value that they get from going and experiencing it firsthand. Kelly Molson: I'm just laughing at the excitement about waste as well like, "Yeah, we could see how they process their waste." That is exciting. Dominic Wray: That would be something that James would probably come back to say to me. But that's what I mean. Everyone of the team's interested in different things, so it's good. Kelly Molson: On this topic of the visits, do you always go to places that are quite similar to yours as well? Or do you do visits that are in complete contrast to what you do as well? To see the difference. Dominic Wray: We'll do a bit of both. Probably a good example is when we set up our Halloween event over October, when we very first did that, went to visit Tully's Farm, which was sort of, in our eyes, as the gold standard of scare attractions. The first time went there, we just went to see what is it as an attraction? How does that concept work? The overview sort of headline of that. And then over the years, as we've developed Terror Island, which is our Halloween event, which we run here, over October, we've been back to Tully's on numerous occasions. We've had Stuart, who runs that, come down to the site as well, and we're then looking at that from a different perspective. Dominic Wray: So then we moved on to, "Okay, how do we look at improving through, how do we look at improving guest experience? How do we look at upselling F&B? Where are the entrance and exit points of the mazes in relation to the broader site? How's the actual site laid out?". So we're then going back and looking at it in a sort of more detailed layer of that. But no, as a team, we'll go to much larger parks, much smaller parks, because I think there's things you can learn from all different sizes of attractions. We went to Hobbledown last year, which was an interesting experience, and we saw their water pillow there, and we actually put one of those into Robin Hill this year, which was one of our most successful attractions. Dominic Wray: So the guys there were fantastic at explaining about the pros and cons of that attraction, which then enabled us to make an informed decision as to whether to purchase one of those or not. But, yeah, I think there's things to be learned from all different types of attractions. If people are going to them with the right mindset of thinking, “What am I going to learn?”Kelly Molson: What's the objective here? What's the takeaway? Okay, great. So that's top tip one. Dominic Wray: Top tip two would be celebrate personal wins for the team and then let them be stars in that moment. I think when someone in the team does something really well and they've achieved something, it's really important to broadcast that to everyone, let everyone know about that and let them shine in that moment. And for it to be about them as an individual, not so much about the company as a whole. It's them in that moment, and you want to make them feel valued and positive about whatever the experiences that they've achieved. Kelly Molson: Nice. Good tip. Dominic Wray: And then my third one would be let people make mistakes in a safe manner and learn from it. I think in a working environment, people are quite often aware when they've made a mistake or something's gone wrong. They don't leave someone jumping up and down. Yeah, exactly. You know, when you're like, "That didn't work. I know it's not worked well," but I think allowing them to make mistakes in a safe, controlled manner that they can then learn from, because I think quality people understand when something's gone wrong, and they equally understand how to fix it and put their hands up and say, yeah, that's happened. But we're quite quick to acknowledge that and move on to how we're going to resolve it and not allow that to occur again. Kelly Molson: Excellent tips. Okay, as an organisation, what's your biggest opportunity and also your biggest challenge as we head into the winter months? Because I think you're coming to do you close over the season? Do you close down? Dominic Wray: Yes. So Saturday is our last operating day, and we close from November and we open in March. Kelly Molson: Wow. Gosh, you really are coming up to the end of the season. Okay, so what's your biggest opportunity and your biggest challenge as we head into that time? Dominic Wray: It was quite a big challenge, and opportunity for the company is that we made a difficult decision to put one of our sites on the market and we're looking to sell Robin Hill. So that will be the biggest challenge and opportunity for the business in recent years, to be fair. I think it presents a great opportunity for the business to double down and invest further into Blackgang, which is 180 years old this year. So it's a big birthday year for us. Kelly Molson: Incredible. Dominic Wray: And I think that will enable us to be here for another 180 years. Not that I might still be around at that point in time. Kelly Molson: You certainly won't look like Mark Wright at that point. Dominic Wray: No, look like a very aged Mark Wright. But I think it's the biggest challenge for the team and myself personally as we reshape the business and pivot into a new direction, but I equally think it's an exciting one to see what will come out on the other side of that as well. Kelly Molson: It is exciting, isn't it? I can imagine that having two parks to oversee can be a stretch at sometimes in terms of resource and also in terms of strategy and how things work, because I guess that they work similar but different. So, yeah, I can see that as a huge opportunity and something to I guess it's kind of a nice thing to focus on for the start of the new season as well, that's kind of progressing. And then you've got this really big opportunity to focus on this one thing and make it as the very best it could possibly be. Dominic Wray: Yeah. And the team have really taken to it. They're really passionate about driving Blackgang forwards and are very excited about the changes and the plans we've got for the next year and coming years as well. So it's been well embraced by them. Kelly Molson: Good. And I guess you're ending the season on a high as well, because we talked a little bit about your Halloween event, but it has been a really successful Halloween event this year, hasn't it? Dominic Wray: Yes, it's gone down really well. We made the sun top ten events for Halloween attractions. So yeah, it's been really well received. It's a personal favourite of mine. Absolutely love it. It's been a complete passion project for the team, and the team are always up for every event we do, but this is one that they really get behind and are in every possible conceivable bit of detail. And as someone that never used to like horror films and hated being scared, I now absolutely love going through scare attractions and love scaring other people even more than that. Complete 360 for me as well. So you don't know what you like until you try it. Kelly Molson: Exactly. You just never know where you never knew where this role was going to take you, did you? When you started this, Dominic, you never knew you were going to end up as a horror fan. Dominic Wray: Yeah, exactly. Now I'm like, "Oh no, we need to make that person over there look more dead. Or how loud we need the chainsaw louder, or that guy doesn't look scary enough." Way more interesting than ices and loans. Kelly Molson: I love it. A massive learning curve and 180 years old. I mean, that is a phenomenal achievement. There can't be many other attractions that are coming up for that age. So this is really incredible. I think you've had a really brilliant year. Can't do this podcast without talking about Radio One as well because I've been aware of Blackgang Chine for quite a while, but I think it maybe isn't on the radar of many people because it's Isle of Wight, it's not on the mainland. But I was driving back from the gym one morning and I listened to Radio One. Kelly Molson: I listened to the Greg James breakfast show on Radio One in the mornings and they were doing this thing where they had to find one of the presenters and all the presenters were hidden up and down all over the country, and they were talking about the Isle of Wight and they kept saying, Blackgang Chine. And I was like, they're talking about Blackgang Chine. Let Laura know. I need to pull over and let Laura know. Obviously she already knew that you were being talked about, but I think how many times did he say Blackgang Chine? It was a lot. Dominic Wray: It was a lot. I think it was over 50 times. I mean, my phone was going mental, mate. If you've got the presenters because it's because we have an area called Area Five with large animatronic dinosaurs, and they thought we'd hidden them down there and they were like, "God, you're really good at keeping a secret. I can't believe you haven't told us this.". And I'm like, "No, honestly, they're not here.". I don't want to actually believe me. Well, clearly no one did. Kept ringing up Radio One to talk about it, but that was a great bit of brand profile for the business and I guess sort of showed that people were associating the element of dinosaurs to the park as well. So that's obviously positive for us. Kelly Molson: It was really good press, even if we didn't have the presenter there. It was absolutely brilliant. Dominic Wray: Yeah, it was fantastic. And then everyone was almost like, they should have been here. Kelly Molson: They should have been here. We should, we need to get Greg James back over, don't you? I mean, he said it enough, so you should get him there for a visit soon. Dominic Wray: Greg, if you're listening, come down. Kelly Molson: I mean, I'd love it if Greg listened to this podcast, but it's highly unlikely. But if you are, Greg, would you like to come on? I'd love a chat with you. I'm just around the corner of Bishop Stortford. That's where you were born, right? We could be friends. Dom, thank you for coming on the podcast. It's been brilliant to chat today. We always end the interview by asking our guests to share a book that they'd like to share with their listeners. So something that you love can be work related or it can be personal, whatever you fancy. Dominic Wray: Well, I was going to think about saying the Highway Code so people can understand how to overtake cyclists, really, but I won't. My favourite podcast at the moment is a podcast called the Big Fish that's presented by Spencer Matthews. Kelly Molson: What? Hang on. Dominic Wray: Oh, sorry, my second favourite. My second well, obviously ones that I listen to after yours. Kelly Molson: Thank you. Well recovered. Dominic Wray: Once I've listened to the latest episode, I move on to Big Fish after that. Kelly Molson: Sorry, say it again. Big Fish. Who's it by? Dominic Wray: Big Fish by Spencer Matthews, who used to be on Made in Chelsea, I think, and now owns a company called CleanCo, which is a non alcoholic brand, which is quite interesting. But I like it because he interviews lots of CEOs and business owners. It's got a bit of a sports mindset focus to it, but it's also very much around the culture in those businesses, how they've built the businesses and the challenges they face within them as well. So it's quite an interesting one. Kelly Molson: I like the sounds of that. I listen to quite a lot of podcasts like that. All right, I'm going to put Big Fish on my list. Well, there you go, listeners. You can't win a copy of this podcast because I can't give it away, but I encourage you to go and have a little listen. Maybe it'll be your number two podcast as well, who knows? Dom, thanks for coming on today. It's been lovely to have you. Congratulations on 180 years and best of luck with everything that comes next. I think you've got a really exciting new chapter that's about to start and maybe you'll come back on in a year or so and tell us how it's all gone. Dominic Wray: Yeah, sounds good. Thank you very much for having me enjoyed it. Kelly Molson:  Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

Mark 1:14-20How are you at recognising road signs?  If you are a driver, hopefully you are good.  When I passed my driving test, a very small part of it was understanding and digesting the Highway Code, these days potential drivers must pass a written test first. This week we are going to have an overview of our faith – what it means to live for Jesus, using road signs to help us along the way. Our first sign is the U-Turn.  If you have a satnav, you may get fed-up with the ones that constantly tell you to do a U-Turn – perhaps you have decided you know a better way to go, a better direction to drive – and you are met with a constant patient instruction to ‘when possible, make a U-turn'! In the opinion of the device, you are going in the wrong direction. I guess the start point of the Christian faith is that we are going in the wrong direction – we need to make a U-Turn.  

Teachers' minister "shouldn't discuss pay", amenity site staff abused, inflation down, new Manx Highway Code on way & Covid pups end up at MSPCA. It's Mannin Line with Andy Wint #iom #manninline #manxradio

In the latest instalment of Lunch with Leon, Leon speaks to the Chief Executive of Living Streets, Steve Edwards, on what the charity has been up to and the progress it has made.  Since Steve has taken his new role, the charity has seen investment in its work in Scotland double; additional funding for its walk-to-school programme in England; and changes to the Highway Code to put pedestrians at the top of a new road user hierarchy rolled out across Great Britain. 

As we come to the end of season 2 of the road.cc Podcast, we've put together a special episode looking at some of the highlights from the last six months. Listen back to some of the best bits of our chat with Chris Boardman shortly after he became the Active Travel Commissioner for England, the discussion around fake news surrounding the Highway Code changes that came into force in January, and why larger people are not well served by the cycling industry. For our second segment we're lucky enough to be joined by Laurence Hunter, VP Insurance for specialist cycle insurer and road.cc Podcast sponsor Laka. We speak about the future of cycling, the trends Laka is seeing in the market right now, and all about how bike insurance is changing.Laka bicycle insuranceCollective bicycle cover by Laka exists to rewrite the rules of insurance so it's something people stand with, not against. Laka has been voted best cycle insurance provider for the last four years running - no excess, no depreciation, no contract, no funky fine-print and a 5-star-customer service.To find out more visit: Laka.coOffer code: ROADCCPOD30 for 30 days free bicycle insurance (new customers only)

In a replay of the first episode of 'Legal Thinking' from February, Ed and Liam are joined by three guests who are well-versed in the rules of the road to discuss what has changed with this January's update to the Highway Code, how it has been communicated, and ultimately how this might affect road safety. Our guests on this episode are Alan Hiscox - Director of Safety, British Horse Society | Simon MacMichael of the cycling publication road.cc; and | Mark Hambleton - Partner at RWK Goodman (referred to as Royds Withy King in the podcast) and specialist in cycling accident claims (and cyclist!) Read Mark's road.cc post on "why a cyclist being successfully sued for colliding with a pedestrian is actually good for cyclists" here: https://road.cc/content/blog/264304-cycling-and-law-why-cyclist-being-successfully-sued-colliding-pedestrian

This week, Ed is joined by Sophie Feeney - a member of RWK Goodman's Personal Injury team - to answer some quick questions about e-scooters; are they legal? Are riders considered 'vulnerable' under the law? How does the Highway Code account for them? If you want to find out more about our Injury team, visit our website: rwkgoodman.com/injury

Amongst other things, in this show we look at some issues raised in relation to the recent changes in the Highway Code and find out about some of the ways examiners help our pupils. Left Turn At Roundabouts Rule 170 Junctions Loitering Bollards Pedestrian Priority Examiners Hints Falling Bikes Judging Spaces Historic Traffic Dress Code Links Highway Code Rules as discussed

Serious injury expert Peter Lorence hosts our latest podcast during Bike Week 2022. He's joined by Michael Gaffney, Chairman of Blue Light Cycling Club, and DS Andrew Cox, Superintendent of Lincolnshire Police. Together, they discuss the dangers posed to cyclists on our roads and how we tackle them, the recent Highway Code update, and tips for drivers and cyclists whilst on the road.

BACK on Air is THE podcast for operators who have compliance on their mind and road transport at the heart of their business.  This podcast is a recording of our live  fortnightly webinar held every other Friday.  So, if you like what you hear and fancy joining the live event where you can ask questions, and vote on our interactive polls, Just register through this link: https://www.backhousejones.co.uk/events/In this episode we discussed:Recurring PI themes.Best practice. The gig economy.Highway Code changes.Whistleblowing.The content of this podcast is correct at the time of broadcasting and isn't meant to be specific legal advice.  If you need advice, we recommend that you take proper legal advice for your individual situation.Please leave us a review and of course details of any areas you would like us to cover in future episodes.  We do read them and it helps others find our podcast. Enjoy!Contact: marketing@backhouses.co.ukWebsite: www.backhousejones.co.uk

Planning for sustainable transport requires a fully integrated transport network to achieve an efficient transportation network, which can act as a catalyst for delivering model shift through behavioural changes for the public; and ultimately contribute to CO2 emission targets and improve the health of the nation. This podcast features Professor John Parkin, Deputy Director of the Centre for Transport and Society and Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of the West of England. John has been involved in all stages of the promotion of transport schemes, as well as having experience across all modes of transport with a specialism in cycling. With his expertise, John has produced an e-learning course on Sustainable Transport for CIHT Learn. In this podcast, John explores the links between regulation, infrastructure design and user behaviour and their ability to impact sustainable transport. John further explores this link and its relationship with sustainable transport by discussing: - the changes in The Highway Code, - the results of John's continuous side road study, - sustainable transport modules on CIHT Learn - behaviour change initiatives, and - shifting the perspective of road investment. CIHT Learn Sustainable Transport modules: https://www.ciht.org.uk/ciht-learn-1/ Professor John Parkin's work: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JohnParkin

Planning for sustainable transport requires a fully integrated transport network to achieve an efficient transportation network, which can act as a catalyst for delivering model shift through behavioural changes for the public; and ultimately contribute to CO2 emission targets and improve the health of the nation.This podcast features Professor John Parkin, Deputy Director of the Centre for Transport and Society and Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of the West of England. John has been involved in all stages of the promotion of transport schemes, as well as having experience across all modes of transport with a specialism in cycling. With his expertise, John has produced an e-learning course on Sustainable Transport for CIHT Learn. In this podcast, John explores the links between regulation, infrastructure design and user behaviour and their ability to impact sustainable transport. John further explores this link and its relationship with sustainable transport by discussing:- the changes in The Highway Code,- the results of John's continuous side road study,- sustainable transport modules on CIHT Learn- behaviour change initiatives, and - shifting the perspective of road investment.CIHT Learn Sustainable Transport modules: https://www.ciht.org.uk/ciht-learn-1/Professor John Parkin's work: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JohnParkin

Planning for sustainable transport requires a fully integrated transport network to achieve an efficient transportation network, which can act as a catalyst for delivering model shift through behavioural changes for the public; and ultimately contribute to CO2 emission targets and improve the health of the nation. This podcast features Professor John Parkin, Deputy Director of the Centre for Transport and Society and Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of the West of England. John has been involved in all stages of the promotion of transport schemes, as well as having experience across all modes of transport with a specialism in cycling. With his expertise, John has produced an e-learning course on Sustainable Transport for CIHT Learn. In this podcast, John explores the links between regulation, infrastructure design and user behaviour and their ability to impact sustainable transport. John further explores this link and its relationship with sustainable transport by discussing: - the changes in The Highway Code, - the results of John's continuous side road study, - sustainable transport modules on CIHT Learn - behaviour change initiatives, and - shifting the perspective of road investment. CIHT Learn Sustainable Transport modules: https://www.ciht.org.uk/ciht-learn-1/ Professor John Parkin's work: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JohnParkin

BACK on Air is THE podcast for operators who have compliance on their mind and road transport at the heart of their business.  This podcast is a recording of our live  fortnightly webinar held every other Friday.  So, if you like what you hear and fancy joining the live event where you can ask questions, and vote on our interactive polls, Just register through this link: https://www.backhousejones.co.uk/events/In this episode we discussed:Vans and HGVs into Europe.TC expectations on 3rd party trailers.Amends to the Highway Code - have they really changed much for you as operators? The content of this podcast is correct at the time of broadcasting and isn't meant to be specific legal advice.  If you need advice, we recommend that you take proper legal advice for your individual situation.Please leave us a review and of course details of any areas you would like us to cover in future episodes.  We do read them and it helps others find our podcast. Enjoy!Contact: marketing@backhouses.co.ukWebsite: www.backhousejones.co.uk

FOLLOW UP: FRANCE ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR GHOSNAuthorities in France have issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, in connection with £12.6 million payments made to Suhail Bahwan Automobiles, in Oman. The claim is money was funnelled illegally to the company which Ghosn took advantage of to use personally. There are another four other individuals also implicated. To learn more, in yet another twist of this tale, click here for the Autocar article. UK GOVERNEMENT MAKES AMENDMENTS TO HIGHWAY CODEThe Government has announced changes to the Highway Code, readying it for when we have self driving technology on the public roads. For cars that are classified, by the Minister for Transport, as self driving and in that mode, we will be able to have our “eyes-off” the road. Currently there are no vehicles on the Minister's list. To read an accurate report on all this, click The Register's link here. To read the Government's own release, click here. For The Register's article on AI and ML, click here.RIMAC HAS NEW INVESTORThe owner of Morgan, Investindustrial, has joined Porsche and Hyundai by investing in Rimac. They are pumping €120 million into the company, as they continue to pursue those moving towards the electrified motoring future. Click here for more information via an Autocar article. GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE CHARGING RELIABILITY LAWThe UK Government is set to introduce a new law, that will require rapid chargers to work as intended 99% of the time. This is all part of their strategy for creating a ‘world leading' charging infrastructure. They also promise to have 300,000 charge points across the country by 2030, but no indication they are mandated. To read more, click the Autocar article here. GRIDSERVE OPENS NORWICH CHARGING FORECOURTGridserve has opened a new forecourt in Norwich, which is run on 100% renewable energy. There are 36 charging points, with 22 able to run up to 350kW. East Anglia is quite poorly serviced, currently, so this is a welcome addition to the area. For more, click here to read the Move Electric article. NEW CHARGING POINT RISE 33% IN LAST YEAROver the last year there has been a 33% rise in the number of charging points being installed, across the UK. 7,500 were added, taking the total up to 30,290. The Government's report also highlighted the disparity in spread of devices, with London being much better served than most other areas. Northern Ireland is particularly badly covered. Move Electric have more on this, just click this link here to read it.LANCASHIRE RESURFACING ROADS WITH RECYCLED TYRESA trial by Lancashire County Council is underway, to test the viability of using recycled tyres as part of the resurfacing material for roads. The main aim is to reduce the carbon footprint of roads, which it is claimed they have in this instance by over 30%. To read more, click the BBC News article here.——————————————————————————-If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-WRC: CROATIA RALLYAfter the seemingly endless wait for another WRC event (okay, we may have been a tad over dramatic there), we were treated to an amazing few days of rallying. Rovanperä, having led for so long over the three days, lost the lead of the race on the penultimate stage, to Tanak. However, a blistering final Special Stage meant he won by just 4.3 seconds. This was all after being well over a minute ahead of everyone on Friday. Neuville rounded out the podium, even after a big scare towards the end. To read about the event, click the DirtFish article here. To read DirtFish's What We Learned article, click here. MOTORSPORT DATES FOR THE DIARYMission Motorsport has announced the 2022 Race of Remembrance, to be held at Anglesey. Click here to learn more. For the Bad Obsession Motorsport video on last year's event, click here. The 24hr of Le Mans program has now been released, which you can find by clicking this link here. NEW NEW CAR NEWSBMW 7-Series -The latest version of the flagship car of the range has been revealed by BMW. Thanks to feedback from the US and China, the biggest markets for this car, the looks are more modern and dramatic. Inside you will be able to add a hose of toys and features, including a ‘cinema screen' for the rear passengers. There will be a host of powertrains, from mild hybrid petrol and diesels, PHEVs and full EV. The i7 will start at £108,305, no figure has been given for the PHEV but the existing models start between £73,305 and £80,405 depending on the variety you go for. For more, including the huge choice of powertrain options and configurations, click here for the Autocar article. Lexus RZ 450e -The first bespoke electric Lexus has been revealed, the RZ 450e. The basis will be the Toyota platform, TNGA, which the Toyota bZ4x also utilises. The RZ was one of the 15 models Akio Toyoda had with him as he revealed the new strategy, recently. The e-TNGA platform has two motors, one for the front and one the back, with a split of 150kW and 80kW respectively. This gives a total power output of 309bhp and 320lb ft, resulting in a 0-62 of 5.6 seconds and a speed limited 99 mph. Official range is just over 250 miles and will be chargeable up to 150kW. No prices have yet been announced. For more, click the Move Electric link here. 8 of the best at Salon Price in London - Motoring Research, well Tim Pitt specifically, was at the Salon Price event last week and has listed the eight best cars there. To see them, click this link here. Toyota GR86 sells out in 90 minutes - For more about how quickly the UK allocation of the GR86 sold out, click the PistonHeads link here. Citroen ends Grand C4 Spacetourer production - Citroen has announced it will not longer make the Grand C4 Spacetourer, which has been a favourite of many who need the practicality of an MPV but don't fancy a van derived vehicle. To read more, click the Autocar article here. Nissan ends Datsun productionDatsun will no longer make cars, Nissan has indicated, following years of slumping sales. For more, click here to read the BBC News article. LUNCHTIME READ: WHAT WAS THE QUESTION AGAIN?This week's Lunchtime Read comes from Nir Kahn, who proposes we should look at original briefs of old cars to help freshen up our thinking today. Click here for his LinkedIn article explaining why we should and what the benefits could be.LIST OF THE WEEK: FIVE REASONS TO AVOID THE AUTOROUTE ON YOUR NEXT FRENCH ROAD TRIP Antony Ingram has compiled the list explaining why you should give the French motorways a miss, next time you drive through the country. Having just returned from what looked like a fabulous road trip (we are not jealous at all, nooooo, not us) he is in as good a position to put this suggestion forward as anyone. Click through and read his reasoning, in his Hagerty piece here. AND FINALLY: REVAMPED MAZADA MUSEUM HAS A NEW WEBSITEMazda has revamped their museum, in Hiroshima, as well as the website explaining all about it. Click this link here to get a taster from what you could expect if you get the chance to go visit.

The UK's Department for Transport proposed updates to the Highway Code for people using self-driving vehicles that are registered as self-driving with the government. A judge from The Brazilian state of Goias ruled Apple must pay 5,000 reals (about $1080 dollars) to a customer who complained about not getting a charger with their iPhone. And security firm Mandiant notes that there were 80 zero-day disclosures in 2021, 18 more than than the previous two years combined.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns.

The UK’s Department for Transport proposed updates to the Highway Code for people using self-driving vehicles that are registered as self-driving with the government. A judge from The Brazilian state of Goias ruled Apple must pay 5,000 reals (about $1080 dollars) to a customer who complained about not getting a charger with their iPhone. AndContinue reading "Zero Days Given – DTNS 4260"

The UK’s Department for Transport proposed updates to the Highway Code for people using self-driving vehicles that are registered as self-driving with the government. A judge from The Brazilian state of Goias ruled Apple must pay 5,000 reals (about $1080 dollars) to a customer who complained about not getting a charger with their iPhone. And security firm Mandiant notes that there were 80 zero-day disclosures in 2021, 18 more than than the previous two years combined. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org Follow us on Twitter Instgram YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. Subscribe through Apple Podcasts. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you are willing to support the show or to give as little as 10 cents a day on Patreon, Thank you! Become a Patron! Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the headlines music and Martin Bell for the opening theme! Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo! Thanks to our mods Jack_Shid and KAPT_Kipper on the subreddit Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here!

Warner Brothers Discovery will close CNN+ on April 30th, the UK’s Department of Transport proposes updates to the Highway Code to prepare for self-driving vehicles, and Twitter launches a beta to highlight third-party services. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. You can get an ad-free feed of Daily Tech Headlines for $3 a month here. A specialContinue reading "CNN+ Shutting Down – DTH"

 In this week's Talking Travel Feature, we discuss the newly-announced rail scheme offering half-price tickets, and the proposed changes to the Highway Code for TVs in automated cars.

Britain had no driving test, no enforced rules on drink-driving, and a network of roads reliant on hand signals on 14th April, 1931 - the publication day of surprise national bestseller The Highway Code. Codifying driving etiquette - rather than reducing fatalities - was as much a preoccupation of the book as safe driving per se. “Good manners, and consideration for others, are as desirable and are as much appreciated on the road as elsewhere”, the Introduction said.  In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly revisit the work of Leslie Hore-Belisha and his ‘Belisha Beacons'; ask whether a little more consideration for cyclists could have avoided decades of irate cabbies calling phone-in radio; and test their own knowledge of the current Highway Code (clue: Rebecca still hasn't passed her driving test…)  Further Reading: • ‘The Untold Story of the Highway Code' (The Historic England Blog, 2021): https://heritagecalling.com/2021/02/12/the-untold-story-of-the-highway-code/ • ‘14 April 1931: the first edition of the Highway Code is published' (MoneyWeek, 2020): https://moneyweek.com/387612/14-april-1931-the-first-edition-of-the-highway-code-is-published • ‘Read And Act On The Highway Code' (British Pathé, 1946): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkBOIToUBrY For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/Retrospectors We'll be back on Tuesday! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/Retrospectors The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill. Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham. Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

BACK on Air is THE podcast for operators who have compliance on their mind and road transport at the heart of their business.  This podcast is a recording of our live  fortnightly webinar held every other Friday.  So, if you like what you hear and fancy joining the live event where you can ask questions, and vote on our interactive polls, Just register through this link: https://www.backhousejones.co.uk/events/In this episode we discussed:The changes to the DVSA's enforcement of tacho record keeping.The dos and don'ts for maintenance schedules, looking specifically at PMI intervals amongst other things.The recent changes to the Highway Code regarding mobile phones and hand-held devices and how to handle this practically.The content of this podcast is correct at the time of broadcasting and isn't meant to be specific legal advice.  If you need advice, we recommend that you take proper legal advice for your individual situation.Please leave us a review and of course details of any areas you would like us to cover in future episodes.  We do read them and it helps others find our podcast. Enjoy!Contact: marketing@backhouses.co.ukWebsite: www.backhousejones.co.uk

Love hacking for hours or see it as a means to an end? In this episode Liz is joined by Lou & Liz to discuss everything and anything hacking related. The recent changes to the Highway Code feature, as well as how to incorporate schooling exercises into your hacking, the importance of hacking with purpose and how   Hi-Viz, once seriously uncool is now a necessity Listen for free across all podcast platforms 

In this week's episode:Now that the Highway Code's new "hierarchy of road users" has come into force, have we noticed any real changes? Have we changed our views??US Electric Vehicle manufacturer Rivian is being offered "incentives" to manufacture in Somerset!Is Gordon Murray's new T.33 such a bargain?Find out more:https://ukmotortalk.co.uk/2022/02/podcast-rivian-in-somerset-gordon-murrays-t33-and-revisiting-the-highway-code-changes/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode:Now that the Highway Code's new "hierarchy of road users" has come into force, have we noticed any real changes? Have we changed our views??US Electric Vehicle manufacturer Rivian is being offered "incentives" to manufacture in Somerset!Is Gordon Murray's new T.33 such a bargain?Find out more:https://ukmotortalk.co.uk/2022/02/podcast-rivian-in-somerset-gordon-murrays-t33-and-revisiting-the-highway-code-changes/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first episode of 'Legal Thinking', Ed and Liam are joined by three guests who are well-versed in the rules of the road to discuss what has changed with this January's update to the Highway Code, how it has been communicated, and ultimately how this might affect road safety. Our guests on this episode are Alan Hiscox - Director of Safety, British Horse Society | Simon MacMichael of the cycling publication road.cc; and | Mark Hambleton - Partner at Royds Withy King and specialist in cycling accident claims (and cyclist!) Read Mark's road.cc post on "why a cyclist being successfully sued for colliding with a pedestrian is actually good for cyclists" here: https://road.cc/content/blog/264304-cycling-and-law-why-cyclist-being-successfully-sued-colliding-pedestrian

In episode 18 of the road.cc Podcast, we're reflecting on the recent changes to the Highway Code… and why we think some of them have been misinterpreted so badly. Join George, Simon, Ryan and Jack as they clarify what the new rules are, and ask why on earth certain media pundits decided to tell the nation that cyclists can now ride in the middle of the road, and require motorists to stop on a roundabout whenever they see a cyclist approaching (spoiler: neither of these things are true). Simon also catches up with Tim Lennon of the London Cycling Campaign, who was recently the subject of tabloid press articles that accused him of being a “cycling zealot” after footage emerged of a driver performing a dangerous and illegal close pass on his daughter. Tim reflects on the media circus, and why people on social media chose to deflect by questioning his daughter's lack of protective equipment. Finally, road.cc tech editor Mat Brett talks to Alex Malone of cycling shoe specialists Bont Cycling, who have come on board to sponsor the road.cc Podcast. What does it take to produce some of the finest cycling shoes, and where can the tech go from here? Alex says “watch this space”, so we're hoping for something new and exciting from Bont this year!

!TRIGGER!: Domestic Abuse, Assault & Rape.BE WARNED: It's LuAnna, and this podcast contains honest, upfront opinions, rants, bants and general explicit content. But you know you love it!On this week's LuAnna the Podcast: Imo's flashed the south-west of London, Lu's been embracing getting old at Cliveden and Anna's got the trots at Soho Farmhouse, as well as having been fleeced whilst naked on a massage table, we hear Lu's view on the changes to the Highway Code, about melons on trees and a poor lady sharing her diarrhoea with the train carriage. Plus, Mason Greenwood arrested over girlfriend's accusations of assault, the Queen's Jubilee and two more weirdos to add to the list.Remember, if you want to get in touch you can:Email us at luannathepodcast@gmail.com OR drop us a WhatsApp on 07745 266947

Have cyclists now got the right of way always? What happens if someone walks off of the rood in front of you? We debate the new changes to the highway code.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/pete-the-courier-drivers-sunday-q-and-a-the-story-so-far/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Laura Sheppard brings you all the local Petersfield news In today's headlines: ⦁     A Petersfield charity is helping to explain yesterday's announcements about energy prices. ⦁    Our series of reports on the new Highway Code rules takes a look at what they mean for horseriders ⦁    East Hampshire District council has ranked fourth worst in the county for its climate change plans ⦁    …And James Robbins ranks first for sport - he's back with a look at the local action around the Petersphere this weekend To get involved or share your news call Petersfield 01730 555 500 or email team@shineradio.uk  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As of 29th January 2022 new changes to the Highway Code called Rule H1, Rule H2, and Rule H3 will come into effect. This will cause pure chaos on the roads, as if UK driving isn't bad enough. With a crumbling road infrastructure, High fuel cost, Road Tax, MOT, Clean Air Zones, Average Speed Check Cameras ! Instagram: @cfr_news 

This week Tony and I discuss:00:00 - Intro01:10 - When jobs go wrong. 05:36 - My GP Ice Race disaster14:35 - My GT4RS experience 19:58 - Patreon Shoutout & How to get in contact! 22:53 - The new Highway Code. 29:10 - SUV world updates32:14 - Is the SF90 a Ferrari flop?41:24 - Ferrari F1 2022 world champions?44:18 - A ‘slow' drive home from Austria. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stephen Martin brings you all the local Petersfield news In today's headlines: ⦁    Some cyclists in Petersfield say they're still learning the new rules  in the Highway Code that are designed to make them safer.    ⦁    A Petersfield charity is appealing for new volunteers. And it's prepared to back its new recruits with formal training.   ⦁    Official statistics suggest there's been a rise in sexual offences reported in our area, even though overall crime numbers are down. ⦁    And there's concern today that some potholes around Petersfield will go unfilled because of rising costs. To get involved or share your news call Petersfield 01730 555 500 or email team@shineradio.uk  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cyclists are already asserting their new powers as they take to the middle of the road legally for the first time today after a major revamp of the Highway Code. Under the new rules, cyclistsare now advised to ride in the centre of lanes on quieter roads, in slower-moving traffic, and when approaching junctions, to make themselves as visible as possible. A teacher who was banned from working in schools after it was discovered he had been posting images of students onto a Russian website used by paedophiles has landed a job as a lecturer at Lancaster University. Emma Raducanu has said she no longer feels safe in her own home after a stalker visited it three times and stole her father's shoe as a 'souvenir', a court heard yesterday. Dr Konstancja Duff, then 24, had intervened in a police stop and search in East London in May 2013 by trying to hand the detainee a card showing him his rights and declining to give her own name. Cliff Richard…........the worst time was the middle of the night, when he would jolt awake in the darkness, heart pounding, pulse racing. Mel Gibson says he believes the Catholic Church should undergo a 'housecleaning' following years of scandals that have destroyed its reputation. Crowdfunders are paying for puberty-blockers taken by children, as well as for operations by private surgeons who remove teenagers' breasts or construct them, remodel their genitalia to simulate a penis or vagina, and remove internal female or male anatomy — including the womb— to match their preferred sex. Sitting down with the minister and industry representatives, including Paul Bate, chief executive of the UK Space Agency, Prince Charles told them: ‘It just occurred while we're making rather a mess of this planet, that it might be useful to have an environmental management agreement for space.'

Phill Humphries brings you all the local Petersfield news In today's headlines: ⦁    Police car in a collision at notorious junction ⦁    We round up the local job vacancies. ⦁    2022 brings updates to the Highway Code ⦁    And finally the food bank is still hoping for your help. To get involved or share your news call Petersfield 01730 555 500 or email team@shineradio.uk  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The recent amendments to the Highway Code give, among other things, priority to pedestrians. This sounds like seemingly good news if you're blind or partially sighted; but charity Guide Dogs have raised concerns that, especially in the early stages, these changes could be dangerous as road users take time to get used to the new rules. We ask Guide Dogs' head of canine affairs, John Welsman to outline their concerns and what this all means for blind or partially sighted pedestrians. You may be a fan of cartoons or animated films, but have you ever had a go at making one? 11-year-old Elodie Bateson has been blind since birth, but she does not let this stop her creating short films on her iPad. Our reporter, Fern Lulham found out how she does it. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Beth Hemmings Production Coordinator: Liz Poole Website image description: pictured is a woman, dressed in dark clothing and a hat, crossing a road with a black guide dog and a white cane. At the top left of the image is a series of parked cars, with a large white van at the forefront of them. The sun is shining down on the road and is reflecting off of the pavement.

In the second part of the episode, the team talks about American cars that have been sold in Europe and whether it was worth them being made in right-hand drive with some corkers reaching UK shores and some damp squibs. Miles starts to become interested in a particular flop in a used Cadillac before he learns it is in the highest road tax band.

In this two-part episode, the team first discusses the new Aston Martin DBX with its claim of being the 'fastest luxury SUV' in the world and turn their attention to the amendments made to the UK's highway code. Finally, in the second part of the episode the team talks about American cars that have been sold in Europe and specifically the ones sold in the UK in Right Hand Drive, there have been some crackers and some flops. Miles starts to become interested in a particular flop in a used Cadillac before he learns it is in the highest road tax band.

Need help with the theory test? Sign up to the 5 Minute Theory training course here: https://tcdrive-learning.teachable.com/ (https://tcdrive-learning.teachable.com/) where you'll get access to over 40 training videos to help you learn, understand and pass your theory test! Theory test expert, Chris Bensted joins me as we discuss the recent changes to the Highway Code including: The hierarchy of road users Cyclists Giving way to pedestrians Chris provides expert training around the theory test and has helped lots of people pass who have failed numerous times before. If you need some help, you can find Chris here: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2FTheoryTest%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2q-2IRxfvqCHsXfPM1eWE5Kdzhzf8ODqXZmvj2WH_ErYBcldx2RM568K8&h=AT0V1KXYyoRac6Y6E1irNO-pMSYwTl6GNxE8KAJ-WnNxW_qUnAHeO8PoMdYPOFbe_hHhTAdsQldejNz9ukb3zldJB1dPGOjx7zZN7jvNi2LWQUprcLEqMRwjBDGShRoQVsPZt0M3YjhGrswnbbk (https://linktr.ee/TheoryTest) If you'd like to get in touch, or want to follow the show, you can catch me on: Website - http://www.tcdrive.co.uk/ (http://www.tcdrive.co.uk/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TCDrivingSchool (https://www.facebook.com/TCDrivingSchool) TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@that_driving_guy ( https://www.tiktok.com/@that_driving_guy) YouTube: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCYznETNAtrzQ5AfXGfCLMfA%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2B4Yi0-6r1yMGMzxVYZInEHpN5gM6RXc2Ezv6uPJuHg8k7Be8EN9tdy5U&h=AT14uHkwmjYaBBW2o5oLOygdddAvRn6Tpib57NoaxBQW7BiiN9HhnSDh7tMJhzm9h_YLbRpAZf5KzjU5e1v7suXj3ml5sfwOMuBDifMU5e-S24kNhB2TQ4eL_57keopSxVNO4gcch4uSwa1Sd0k (https://youtube.com/channel/UCYznETNAtrzQ5AfXGfCLMfA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcdriving_school/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TCDrive1 (https://twitter.com/TCDrive1)

The New Highway Code Rules. Have you heard about the changes? Have you ever read the Highway Code? In this episode, I rant about the new UK rules and changes for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

There's a new Highway Code! Rules for all types of road users have been updated in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking and cycling.Naturally, some people have taken the news very badly with strange headlines and talk radio stations going into overdrive.What do the changes mean and what difference will they make?We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveable streets and people-focused urban design.We're on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: http://www.twitter.com/podstreetsaheadIf you're reading this, please can you take 1 minute to give us a rating and write a review? It helps us more than you probably think. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Donna King speaks about building our lives on foundations that can bear the weight of His glory, by listening to the 'instructor' and reading the 'highway code.'

We've been to meet three-year-old Freddie Alsey from Whitstable who could well be the smartest youngster in Kent. He can already name all of the planets in order, say his times tables and even read books. Even his teachers reckon he should have an IQ test. Hear from Freddie and his mum. Also in today's podcast, there's confusion over whether or not a planned rise in national insurance will go ahead in April. Some have called for the hike to be scrapped because of fears it'll force inflation up even further and that will increase prices in shops even more. But a government minister has said it will go ahead as planned. We hear the thought of the deputy chief executive of the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce and a trustee from Canterbury foodbank. Sittingbourne and Sheppey's MP insists major work to improve the Stockbury roundabout will be worth the current disruption being felt by drivers. Hear from Gordon Henderson ahead of another closure of the A249 this weekend. A driving instructor also shares his views on changes to the Highway Code coming into force tomorrow. A group of volunteers in Gravesham are working with the Home Office to find a refugee family that could relocate to the area to start a new life. We've been speaking to the man who heads up the Refugee Welcome Group. And, Gillingham caretaker manager Steve Lovell speaks ahead of their game against promotion chasing Oxford United this weekend.

We've jumped the gun on this episode of the road.cc podcast because, we'll think you'll agree, it's very very timely… our special guest is none other than Chris Boardman! In a week where the Highway Code is changing to better reinforce the greater responsibility of motorists on our roads, the former Olympic Champion, business owner, MBE (insert more achievements here) has been named the interim commissioner of a new governmental body, Active Travel England, which has been tasked with implementing the Gear Change strategy. What is Chris' vision to get more people cycling and walking, and does he think the Highway Code changes will actually change much? Why doesn't he get chance to actually ride his bike nowadays? Find out by listening to this special episode of the road.cc Podcast… 

Listen as Sen Loeb breaks records, Formula E is back for season 8 and we have a public service announcement about driving laws!!

FOLLOW UP: MYTHS ABOUT HIGHWAY CODE CHANGESLast week the chaps had an article on the changes to the Highway Code as the Lunchtime Read as they are significant and we all need to understand them. Apparently some did not listen to us, with reports from mainstream media outlets not correctly explaining the issues. In case you didn't read last week's recommendation then click this article from The Guardian, so you are well informed. FOLLOW UP: MORE DETAIL ON POSSIBLE LONDON ROAD TRAVEL CHANGESAs Andrew and Alan stated during the article, as they were confused with the change in price, they have found some more detail which helps to explain the possible new rules better. Click here for the Move Electric article. POLICING LEVELS BLAMED FOR STATIC ROAD DEATH FIGURESBetween 2010 and 2019 the level of road deaths, on British roads, has remained stable, after three decades of reduction. The main blame for this is the level of visible police on our roads. Added to this, Panorama found that roughly 50% of static speed cameras do not work. For more about this story, click the YesAuto article here. WILLIAMS ADVANCED ENGINEERING BOUGHT The Australian mining group, Fortescue Metals, has bought Williams Advanced Engineering, the engineering, design and technology offshoot of Williams F1. Fortescue are aiming to become a major company in the industrial transport sector. To learn more, click here for the Autocar article. BRITISHVOLT SECURES MAJOR FUNDING FOR BATTERY FACTORY BritishVolt announced that through a combination of private and Government funding they had secured around £1.7 billion for their battery factory planned in the North East, due to open in 2024. For more information, click the article from Autocar here. LEICESTER LATEST COUNCIL TO TAX COMPANY CAR PARKSLeicester City Council are set to introduce a parking levy on companies that provide ten or more spaces. The charge is £550 per space, with the money being reinvested into zero emission public transport and active travel schemes for the city. More on this story can be found by clicking here for The Guardian link. CHRIS BOARDMAN LEADS ACTIVE TRAVEL PUSHChris Boardman, the former Olympic cycling hero, is to lead a push to get more people to switch to active travel options, when making journeys. Active Travel England will be evaluating schemes that encourage walking or cycling, including the infrastructure. To learn about this, click the BBC News article here. INSURANCE PREMIUMS ALREADY RISING AFTER CHANGEAs predicted by many, including this show only a couple of weeks ago, premiums for car insurance have risen. We were all told that we would save money, now that insurers were not allowed to offer lower rates to new customers therefore putting existing ones at a disadvantage. For details of what has happened, click the YesAuto article here. EX ASTON CHASIS BOSS JOINS JLRMatt Becker, who was expected to join McLaren for that only to fall through, has joined Jaguar Land Rover, as Mike Cross announces his retirement. Becker will not replace Cross though. Meanwhile JLR are still to announce a new engineering boss following Nick Rogers departure. In order to learn more about this, click here for the Autocar article. LAND CRUISERS A FOUR YEAR WAIT IN JAPANToyota has announced that there is a four year wait for Land Cruisers in Japan. They state that this is not due to the chip shortage or Covid. To find out more, click the BBC News article here.——————————————————————————-If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-WRC: MONTE CARLOThe first round of the 2022 WRC calendar did not disappoint! As you would expect from Monte there were thrills and spills, some of them spectacular! The new Rally1 cars were generally very reliable and did not lack in pace, noise or helping the action. Hyundai struggled, really struggled, especially without a figurehead, such as Adamo. Loeb rolled back the years to pip Ogier and give M-Sport a win, with Green rounding out the podium. We were reminded, though, of the words from the FIA President, that the sport needs superstars, not just winners. To find out how the rally went, click the DirtFish article here.For the DirtFish, What We Learned, click here. To find out how Colin Clark rated the drivers, click here for the DirtFish article. LUNCHTIME READ: MY LIFE & CARS - SHAMI KALRAThe founder of Omologato, the watch making company that takes inspiration for their designs from motorsport, discusses his life and his cars in this EVO Magazine article. To read our recommendation, click the link here. To listen to Shami's Rear View Part 1 interview, click here. For the Part 2 episode of Rear View, with Shami, click here. LIST OF THE WEEK: THE CARS THAT HELPED SAVE THE COMPANYAutocar has compiled a slideshow of cars they suggest saved a car company. Click through and see if you agree with Alan and Andrew's choices. Don't forget to let them know! Click here for the list. AND FINALLY: ONE-OFF BLUEBIRDNissan has converted a Mk1 Bluebird, from the Sunderland plant, to EV as a celebration of that site's 35 years of production. To find out more about this, click the Autocar article here.

Nigel Farage is joined by Chair of the Defence Select Committee MP Tobias Ellwood to discuss the future of Ukraine as Russia threatens to invade. Neil Greig from IAM RoadSmart talks about the new Highway Code that prioritises cycling and pedestrians. Celebrity chef Tonia Buxton joins Nigel in the GB News pub for Talking Pints. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Pierce speaks with Rebecca English, the Daily Mail's Royal Editor, to find out  what has happened to Meghan and Harry's podcast, and to Duncan Dollimore, head of Campaigns for Cycling UK about big new changes to the Highway Code when it comes to cyclists and pedestrians. Plus, some of the strangest insurance claims ever made. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lads are back to calm the tumultuous seas of Westminster and beyond. As the Prime Minister ignores calls for his resignation, Mike and Kev celebrate Burns Night with a rage fuelled discussion on their desired outcomes for Boris, laughable changes to the Highway Code, and the latest in COVID clown world. You can follow the boys on Twitter. Mike is: @IROMG, Kevin is @TVKev and you'll find the podcast too: @ThoughtPoliceTP. Meanwhile if you'd like to send them an email, the address is: thoughtpolicepod@gmail.com 

Doomsday Clock: Humanity stays closer to the apocalypse than ever before EU official vows rapid sanctions if Russia launches Ukraine military attack Dover lorry queues 'sparked by Brexit checks' so long they can be seen from space Rory Stewart says it is 'disturbing' people voted for 'manifestly unsuitable' prime minister Major changes to Highway Code arrive next week - but one in three drivers aren't aware MP Blackmail claim: SCUM BACK TO MINE Labour deputy Angela Rayner spotted leaving flat with married MP lover LEGEND DEAD Meat Loaf dead at 74 – Covid reported as cause of death as Bat Out of Hell singer dies with wife Deborah by his side Boris Johnson met Nusrat Ghani in 2020 and told her to make formal complaint over her claim she was sacked over her 'Muslimness UK turns down application to build UK-France power cable My journey into the metaverse — already a home to sex predators Facebook's virtual-reality world is for over-13s but harassment, racism, talk of porn and worse make it scary even for adults Tommy Robinson Is Being Chased For His ‘Missing Millions' Anti-Vaxxers Think a 9-Digit Code Shows Vaccine Sites Are Criminal. It Doesn't The Westerners Desperately Trying to Turn Tanzania Into an Anti-Vax Paradise Brussels police fire water cannon, tear gas during COVID curbs protest Why has the UK fallen for the cult of Joe Rogan? M&Ms go woke! Chocolate giant will trade green M&M character's stilettos for sneakers and end her rivalry with brown M&M in order to reflect 'a more dynamic, progressive world' Calling All Squirters: This Sex Blanket Is Here to Save Your Sheets US Senate Candidate Lights Up Giant Blunt in First Ad Campaign

It's the hottest new driving manoeuvre you've probably only just heard about. But what is the ‘Dutch reach' and can it help keep the roads safer?The technique is part of new safety rules in the updated Highway Code to help better protect cyclists and pedestrians, although the AA says a third of motorists don't even know it's been revamped.It follows many years of safety campaigning by Cycling UK, and we're joined by their head of campaigns, Duncan Dollimore, to discuss the changes as legions of commuters get back on their bikes after WFH guidance was scrapped. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome back to the DTS Podcast guys! In today's episode, we will be taking you through the upcoming updates to The Highway Code coming into place as of January 29th, 2022. Whether you're a learner or already driving, it's really important you're made aware of these as they will affect all road users!UK's No.1 Theory Test Pass Guarantee & Revision App - £4.99:http://onelink.to/dtspodcast

SMART MOTORWAYS HALTED BY GOVERNMENTThe roll out of new smart motorways will be halted for five years, as the Government wants to use that time to collate more data on the safety of the existing sections. Those schemes that are already being built will continue, however. In the meantime, £900 million has been pledged to improving the safety of existing smart motorways. For more on this story, click the Autocar article here. FUEL DUTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT £5 BILLION THANKS TO EVSThe RAC Foundation has estimated that the Government could lose £5 billion in revenue from fuel duty, with the rise in EV adoption, by 2030. This brings up the thorny problem of how will that be recouped, especially as car owners already feel they are over burdened with costs. To learn more, click here for the YesAuto link. LONDON MAYOR CONSIDERING A DAILY CAR CHARGESadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has commissioned a City Hall report into achieving the net zero target for London of 2030. One of the recommendations is for a daily charge of £2 per car, except the zero emission vehicles, as well as charging those from outside entering Greater London. This would increase the scope and area of existing schemes. The claim is this is needed for clean air reasons. In order to find out more, click the BBC News article here. POTHOLE DAMAGE AT THREE YEAR HIGH The RAC attended an astonishing 27 call-outs related to pothole damage each day in 2021. This is a three year high. The RAC has called on the Government to properly invest in maintaining roads to a safe and acceptable standard, as well as fresh thinking as current practices and funding levels are inadequate. Further information can be found by clicking this Motoring Research article link here. SCOTLAND PUSHING FOR CAR USE REDUCTION The Scottish Transport Minister, Graeme Day, has published a ‘road map' for reducing the need to use cars. This has been criticised for having little in terms of actionable steps. To read more about this, click the YesAuto article here. This stance is being echoed in the UK Government, with Transport Minister Trudy Harrison, stating we need to move away from private car ownership late last year. You can read her comments and more by clicking the AMOnline link here. RENAULT GROUP SALES SLIDE AGAINFor the third year running, sales fell for Renault Group, two of the last three years are fairly easy to explain though. Last year, further disruption from Covid and the semi conductor chip shortages are being blamed. Some bright news is that Alpine, Dacia and Lada made gains. For more on this story, click the Autocar article here. RENAULT TO BE ALL EV IN EUROPE BY 2030 Renault are the latest to announce when they will be electric only in Europe. They have plumped for 2030, but Dacia may be behind that mainly due to costs of the technology and how Dacia is priced currently. More information can be found by clicking this Autocar link. VEOLIA OPENING CAR BATTERY RECYCLING CENTRE IN THE UKVeolia has announced the opening of it's UK-based car battery recycling centre in Minworth, West Midlands. They estimate they will be able to handle 20% of the end of life batteries, in the UK, by the end of 2024. To learn more, click the YesAuto article here. SHELL OPENS FIRST EV CHARGING HUB IN LONDONShell has converted a petrol station and forecourt to their first electric car charging hub, in Fulham, London. Nine cars will be able to charge using the 175kW chargers. Further information can be found if you click this link to the YesAuto article. BOLLINGER PAUSES 4X4 EV DEVELOPMENTBollinger has announced that they will be focusing on commercial EV development, pausing their work on the B1 and B2 4x4 passenger vehicles. Deposits have or will be refunded on the $100,000 vehicles. For more, click the Autocar article here. ——————————————————————————-If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-WRC: FIA BOSS WANTS CHANGESThe new FIA President, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, has views on what WRC needs, in order to survive and thrive. He is looking for a more inclusive collaboration between WRC, promoters and manufacturers. Three manufacturers is not enough to help draw crowds and TV to the spectacle, in his view. With diminishing viewership and locations such as Great Britain losing their round, it is hard to argue with him. Click here for the DirtRally interview, which includes a podcast in their post. LUNCHTIME READ: HIGHWAY CODE UPDATE FOR 2022 - A REMINDERAs a reminder we wanted to share the changes in the 2022 Highway Code, which fundamentally alter the relationship and actions of drivers in relation to more vulnerable road users. To learn what you should do as a road user, click the Parkers article link here. LIST OF THE WEEK: SIX WAYS TO MAKE CARS YOUR HOBBY IN 2022Once again, we link to a Hagerty article, this time about what you could do in 2022 to further your involvement and enjoyment in the car world. Do not to forget to let the chaps know which of list you want to explore more this year. For the list, click the link here. AND FINALLY: THE BREATHTAKING CARS OF FRANCO SCAGLIONEWe have been remiss for far too long in not having a video from the Roadster Life YouTube channel linked to, on the podcast. We address that now by recommending Matteo's video about the designer Franco Scaglione and the amazing vehicles he penned. To enjoy just over eight minutes of loveliness, click the YouTube link here.

In this first episode of 2022:Good news on the "Smart Motorway" frontChanges to the Highway Code - The "Hierarchy of Road Users"Upgrades to the FiST track carNews of Mike's Orion "Onion" projectWarm memories of 80s and 90s cars now considered "retro"https://ukmotortalk.co.uk/2022/01/podcast-highway-code-changes-track-car-upgrades-and-80s-and-90s-retro/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this first episode of 2022:Good news on the "Smart Motorway" frontChanges to the Highway Code - The "Hierarchy of Road Users"Upgrades to the FiST track carNews of Mike's Orion "Onion" projectWarm memories of 80s and 90s cars now considered "retro"https://ukmotortalk.co.uk/2022/01/podcast-highway-code-changes-track-car-upgrades-and-80s-and-90s-retro/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Show #1338 If you get any value from this podcast please consider supporting my work on Patreon. Plus all Patreon supporters get their own unique ad-free podcast feed. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 11th January. It's Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they've built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It's a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too. Welcome to a new Patreon Executive ProducerTIMOTHY PHILLIPS FERRARI NAMES NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM TO TACKLE ELECTRIFICATION CHALLENGES - Ferrari unveiled a new management team to lead the automaker as it faces the challenges of embracing electrification - The leadership shake-up is one of the first major moves of CEO Benedetto Vigna, who took on the role at the beginning of September, moving to Ferrari from STMicrolectronics.  Hiring two executives from his former employer suggests Vigna is turning to trusted allies to aid his turnaround of the auomaker that has been slow to embrace new era of cleaner, silent and interconnected mobility. - Investors are eager to hear about Vigna's strategy for the era of battery technology and digital services. Ferrari plans to share more details on its plans during a capital markets day in June. Original Source : https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/ferrari-names-new-leadership-team-tackle-electrification-digitalization-challenges - While Ferrari has always embraced new technologies that were developed in racing, it has been relatively slow to explore fully electric powertrains - It's not hard to see why it has been slow. Ferrari's brand was built on its racetrack successes and, crucially, on the sounds and sensations of its V-12 and V-8 gasoline engines. While the company has embraced emissions-friendly technologies like turbocharging and, more recently, gasoline-electric hybrid drivetrains, it has yet to show a fully electric vehicle -- or even talk at length about what one might look like -- though it did tell us last year that we can expect an electric Ferrari by 2025. - Because Ferrari is as much a luxury company as an automaker, it has to be concerned about how its wealthy clients will receive an electric Ferrari. Original Source : https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/01/10/ferrari-shuffles-management-to-embrace-tech/ TESLA'S ‘FULL SELF-DRIVING' BETA HAS AN ‘ASSERTIVE' DRIVING MODE THAT ‘MAY PERFORM ROLLING STOPS' - Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta lets you choose from three driving “profiles” that dictate how the car will react to certain situations on the road. Each mode, “Chill,” “Average,” and “Assertive,” varies in terms of aggressiveness (and potentially safety). - In the description beneath the “Assertive” option, Tesla notes the vehicle will “have a smaller follow distance” and “perform more frequent speed lane changes.” The vehicle will also “not exit passing lanes” and “may perform rolling stops,” and it's not entirely clear whether this means cars won't come to a full stop at stop signs. · Original Source : https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22875382/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-assertive-profile - However, it could sometimes be safer for an automated system to be more assertive, like a human driver, rather than being overly cautious, one motor safety expert said. - The list of behaviours has been criticised by some on social media as being less safe. But Matthew Avery, from the UK's Thatcham Research, said that well-designed driverless systems are theoretically safer than human drivers because they eliminate human error. - In many jurisdictions, failing to come to a complete halt at a stop line is illegal, and can result in someone failing their driving test. As a habit, many drivers simply come to a slow crawl - or a rolling stop - instead, but it is considered a dangerous technique. - These appear to be part of both Tesla's average and assertive modes. The description that the car "will not exit passing lanes" also seems to contradict some regional rules. - But in the US, where they drive on the right, several states - but not all - have made it illegal to leave the right-hand lane unless overtaking. Similarly, in the UK, the Highway Code says motorists should always stay in the left lane unless overtaking, and return to the left when safe to do so. It is not clear if Tesla's system will account for national or state-based variations in the rules about staying in the overtaking lanes, or what the term rolling stops means in relation to stop signs. Original Source : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59939536 CHIPMAKERS REVEAL NEW PARTNERS AT TRADE SHOW - Nvidia released the eighth-generation autonomous driving platform Drive Hyperion at this year's CES. It is designed with Nvidia Drive Orin system-on-a-chip, a central computer for software-defined vehicles - The Drive Hyperion 8 platform includes 12 state-of-the-art cameras, 12 ultrasonics, three interior cameras, and one front-facing lidar. - The company also highlighted a number of new energy vehicle makers adopting the Hyperion platform, including Polestar, Li Auto, Nio, R Auto and Xpeng. - Mobileye, Intel's autonomous driving hardware and software arm, unveiled its latest generation of self-driving car system-on-a-chip at the CES. - Mobileye signed deals with Geely's electric arm Zeekr to build an NEV with Level 4 autonomous driving. Original Source : http://en.ce.cn/main/latest/202201/10/t20220110_37242268.shtml CHIP SHORTAGE LEAVES TESLA AND OTHER ELECTRIC CAR BUYERS IN CHINA WAITING MONTHS FOR NEW VEHICLES - The ongoing global chip shortage has left car buyers in China waiting several months for newly purchased vehicles to arrive, as assemblers and component manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand. - The electric vehicles (EVs) market has been especially hard-hit owing to its need for more semiconductors than traditional carmakers. Premium cars that need more chips for driver assistance and other electronic systems remain in high demand despite a slowdown in production. - Two sales managers at Tesla, the global leader in EV sales, said buyers ordering Shanghai-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles will not see their new cars until the end of the first quarter. - In mainland China, the world's largest automotive market, global foundries can only produce enough semiconductors, microcontrollers and high-end chips with artificial intelligence (AI) processors for about 4 million new energy vehicles (NEVs), according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). That leaves a shortfall of 1 million vehicles based on the guild's forecast for demand this year of NEVs, a term used in China to refer to electric and hybrid vehicles. Original Source : https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3162713/chip-shortage-leaves-tesla-and-other-electric-car-buyers BMW AIMS TO DOUBLE ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES TO 200,000 IN 2022 - BMW's sales numbers for 2021 still haven't been fully released, but we know for a fact the main brand delivered 2.2 million vehicles to set a new record and beat Mercedes in the process. More than 100,000 of these cars didn't have a combustion engine and the Bavarian marque is confident it will double that number in 2022. - The disclosure was made by BMW sales chief Pieter Nota in an interview with Automotive News during which he described EVs as being a “big growth driver” for the company's 2021 performance. He went on to say: “We are very confident about doubling [EV sales] again this year, when the iX and i4 will be fully available.” - Sold out for months, the two zero-emission vehicles will receive a production hike in 2022 to meet strong demand by adding 6,000 jobs. - The new i3 is likely to remain a China-only affair whereas the other four zero-emission models we mentioned will be globally available. Nota told AN “there is a lot of momentum in our pipeline,” but cautioned the charging infrastructure is a “key enabler” of EV adoption. Original Source : https://www.bmwblog.com/2022/01/10/bmw-double-electric-vehicle-sales-2022/ MERCEDES INCREASES PLUG-IN CAR SALES BY ALMOST 70% Original Source : https://www.electrive.com/2022/01/10/mercedes-increases-ev-sales-by-almost-70/ LG ENERGY SOLUTION EXPECTS TO OUTSTRIP CHINA'S CATL IN GLOBAL EV BATTERY MARKET SHARE Original Source : https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220110007500320 GM ALIGNS WITH CALIFORNIA ON EMISSION RULES, STATE LOOKS TO BUY GM EVS Original Source : https://eu.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2022/01/09/gm-aligns-california-emission-rules-state-looks-buy-gm-evs/9153083002/ TESLA ASKS FANBASE TO SUPPORT PUSH TO ALLOW DIRECT SALES IN NEW YORK Original Source : https://electrek.co/2022/01/10/tesla-asks-fanbase-support-push-allow-direct-sales-new-york/ THE TESLA MODEL 3 WAS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH IN GERMANY'S DEC 2021 VEHICLE SALES Original Source : https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-surges-germany-december-21-vehicle-sales/?utm_source=pocket_mylist COMPANY OFFERING ROUND TESLA MODEL S YOKE CONVERSION   Original Source : https://www.carthrottle.com/post/company-offering-round-tesla-model-s-yoke-conversion/ MFG TO INVEST £50M IN 60 NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING HUBS THIS YEAR Original Source : https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/forecourts/mfg-to-invest-50m-in-60-new-electric-vehicle-charging-hubs-this-year/663399.article   VAUXHALL COMBO LIFE AND VIVARO LIFE GO EXCLUSIVELY ELECTRIC FOR 2022 Original Source : https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/vauxhall/357037/vauxhall-combo-life-and-vivaro-life-go-exclusively-electric-2022 QUESTION OF THE WEEK WITH EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM The 4th anniversary of this podcast is next week on Tuesday 18th January. So this week it's a self-indulgent question, and I'll hope you forgive me for that. What would you like to see and hear from this show in 2022. What would you keep, and what would you change. What would you like to see new? Email me your answer now: hello@evnewsdaily.com It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast. And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing. Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I'll catch you tomorrow and remember…there's no such thing as a self-charging hybrid. 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Hello everyone welcome back to our channel Today we'll talked about OpinionPity the poor, oppressed driver forced to share their roads with the rest of usCatherine BennettWe're still in thrall to the car – to judge by the lenient sentences for reckless motoristsReports from the frontline of the war on motorists have made distressing reading for some vehicle owners. With low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) surviving both physical and media assault, improved protections for pedestrians and cyclists in a revised Highway Code will weaken still further, they discover, a right to road domination long understood to be, if not divinely ordained, something even better: unassailable.Howls of below-the-line outrage in traditionally motor-friendly media confirm that views on road use can still, given the number of cycling and walking motorists, be startlingly tribal. To make vulnerable road users safer, as the government intends with revised hierarchy at junctions, appears for the extreme motorised group to be a more grievous insult to their status, if possible, than the sight of a straggly planter where there was formerly a Land Rover's right to roam.What, after all, is the point of a massive city-based 4x4 if it must now give way, as in the revised regulations, to a cyclist enjoying the right to ride safely in the middle of the road, or to go first at a junction? The rage is near palpable. “Goes against the natural order of things,” offers one Telegraph reader. “Cyclists and pedestrians will die clinging on to their rights, while ordinary citizen motorists will rot in gaol at the taxpayer's expense.”What next for an oppressed and often unloved group whose only fault, beyond the environmental damage, is their involvement in the majority of vulnerable road user deaths? Could they soon face prison sentences for simply being a bit pissed and turning a car over? Permanent driving bans for, say, killing someone or quite reasonably driving over an extra-irksome cyclist? It may be some comfort to these persecuted drivers that UK targets for road casualty reduction were abandoned back in 2010. That Grant Shapps, the transport minister, introduces himself as a “petrol-head”. And whatever excruciating junction-based humiliations may lie ahead at the hands of pedestrians and cyclists, terrible drivers can still, as demonstrated last week, hope for leniency in the courts.In the first of two cases that could, equally, have been designed to frighten potential cyclists off the roads, a Mr Alan Moult, aged 73, was jailed for chasing after a cyclist (including along a pavement) then running over him with his Land Rover Freelander. His victim, who had annoyed him, was fortunate to survive injuries including a fractured pelvis, torn genitals, six broken ribs and a punctured liver.By itself, a dashcam recording in which the cursing Moult's wife screams at him to calm down, makes a powerful case for acknowledging that cars, like kitchen knives, are murder weapons in the wrong hands. Since Moult's conviction was for causing serious injury by dangerous driving, he was jailed for 18 months and chastised for behaviour that was “grossly disproportionate”. Locals can expect to see him back in his Freelander, a lifetime ban having presumably been judged over-harsh, after a three-year disqualification.A reluctance to impose long bans seems to have coincided with the 'stagnation' of UK road safety.In what can't have been the best promotional week for Land Rover (an angry Range Rover driver was also charged for “nudging” Insulate Britain protesters), another prominent customer, the minor celebrity and driving ban veteran Katie Price, received a suspended sentence for driving when uninsured and disqualified. She was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine. The judge also imposed costs of £213, and a two-year driving ban – an arguably disappointing choice when a longer version could have protected the public from a motorised Price for 80 years. Then again, a speeding driver recently jailed – for 40 months – after killing a 15-year-old boy, was disqualified for three years.A reluctance to impose long bans seems to have coincided with what the Towards Zero Foundation regrets as the “stagnation” of UK road safety. If the UK aligned itself with the UN's target of a 50% (by 2030) reduction in road fatalities and serious injury, it argues, “we have the opportunity to save around 170,000 people from dying or experiencing life-changing injuries from road collision”.Sussex police are considering appealing against Price's sentence, which “could have and should have been much worse”. It might even, given her vast following, have doubled as one of those teachable moments recommended by anti-knife crime experts: “An event or experience which presents an opportunity to learn something new or re-evaluate an existing belief.” In this case, to re-evaluate the existing belief that, whatever the Highway Code might say about junctions, car drivers belong at the top of the road-using hierarchy. A serial traffic offender who was lucky to trash nothing more than her own car, has, the public may instead have noted, been more forgivingly treated than the Insulate Britain pedestrians jailed in November. Their sentences of between three and six months (along with combined costs of £45,000) were welcomed as a deterrent by National Highways: “The judge's decision will hopefully make people think again about carrying out reckless and dangerous protests such as these.”Teachable moment: if you want to behave recklessly and dangerously on a road without incarceration, inconvenience, or even incurring a large fine, it's advisable to do it inside a car. As for almost killing a stranger in a moment of madness: that too, as demonstrated by Mr Moult, is best done, for the avoidance of more stringent penalties, from a seatbelted position inside, for preference, one of the car industry's more environmentally objectionable models.Where does this leave the war on motorists (as the imposition of any road safety measures is traditionally known)? Some, no doubt, are likely to feel deeply their humbling by less magnificent road users.“Pedestrians leap from the prow of my Morgan,” Boris Johnson wrote when a motoring columnist, “the bonnet connoting the size of my organ.” By way of compensation for this lost status they may, then, escape a good deal of future disappointment.That's all for today, please like , share , subscribe Thank you see you next time bye bye☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆https://linktr.ee/jacksonlibon---------------------------------------------------#facebook #instagram #amour #couple #couplegoals #famille #relation #doudou #youtube #twitter #tiktok #love #reeĺs #shorts #instagood #follow #like #ouy #oyu #babyshark #lilnasx #girl #happybirthday #movie #nbayoungboy #garden #fromthebayou #deviance #autotrader #trading #khan #academy #carter #carguru #ancestry #accords #abc #news #bts #cbs #huru #bluebook #socialmedia #whatsapp #music #google #photography #memes #marketing #india #followforfollowback #likeforlikes #a #insta #fashion #k #trending #digitalmarketing #covid #o #snapchat #socialmediamarketing #bhfyp 

In our 80th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, H&H's Jennifer Donald talks to Sameh El Dahan, a top showjumper who has recently switched nationalities and now rides for Britain instead of Egypt. H&H's Pippa Roome then catches up with the H&H news team to discuss changes to the Highway Code, research into rehabilitation after sacroiliac pain and kickback from the decision to remove riding from the modern pentathlon. Finally, trainer Jason Webb continues his series about starting young horses, with a focus on longlining as part of a horse's education this week. We hope you'll enjoy listening.

In this episode Tony and George talk to 'Mr Cannondale' , Clive Gosling, Marketing Director at Cycling Sports Group UK, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the industry's most innovative bike manufacturers. George, Dan, and Simon also discuss what impact the new highway code is likely to have on cyclists following the governments announcement of changes to it. We also look at a cyclist in the US who rode 100 miles without a saddle and discuss whether it's something any of us would attempt. 

SECURITY VULNERABILITY FOUND IN SMART CHARGERSPenTestPartners has investigated smart EV chargers available to those buying for themselves as well as public chargers, finding many security vulnerabilities. For those interested, click here for PenTestPartners's own report. However, one concern is the operating system used by some firms. Where Raspberry Pi is used there are more issues, because that is not a suitable OS for a connected device due to a lack of security layers inherent in the system. For more info click here for Ken Munro's tweet, commending the quick reaction by one firm to the information. Click here for another tweet from Ken Munro expressing his dismay at another company's reaction. Click here for Cybergibbon's tweet explaining why Rasberry Pi is not suitable. FORMER FRENCH MINISTER UNDER INVESTIGATIONRachida Dati, a former French Minister, has been placed under formal investigation for payments made by the Dutch based Renault-Nissan joint-venture, during Carlos Ghosn's time as CEO. Dati has previously been cleared over payments and her lawyer stated these were all reported and legal. To read more, click the Automotive News article here. CLIMATE SPOKESPERSON CAUSES ONLINE KERFUFFLEAllegra Stratton, the Prime Minister's climate spokesperson, stated that for her a third-hand diesel Golf is better than an EV, due to the lengthy journeys she travels to visit relatives. One aspect is that she seems to have no understanding of the current state of EV and the charging network. Also, however, there were many Twitter conversations, where some journalists and those who should know better, demonstrated their lack of understanding of the current situation. To read more, click The Guardian article here. GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR ZERO-EMISSION TRUCKS The Government is putting forward £20 million for initiatives aimed at helping improve the viability of electric and hydrogen lorries. To read more, click the Motoring Research article here. IMPORTANT CHANGES TO HIGHWAY CODE A new hierarchy of road users will be implemented with proposed changes to the Highway Code, meaning pedestrians and cyclists will be given priority over others. The idea is that those who have the potential to cause the most problems and danger have to take the most care to prevent that. Only snag the chaps can see in that idea is those who really need to know the changes will be oblivious unless there is a huge communication campaign. To read more, click here for the YesAuto article. FORMER TOYOTA EUROPE BOSS PASSES AWAYJohan van Zyl, the former head of Toyota Europe, has passed away after a short illness at the age of 63. He was instrumental in securing investment in the Burnaston site in Derbyshire, as well as over seeing the change of ‘no more boring cars' from the company. Thoughts are with his family and friends. To read more, click the Autocar article here. ——————————————————————————-If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-NEW NEW CAR NEWSHonda HR-V The order books have now opened for the next generation HR-V, from Honda. Prices start at £26,960, rising to £31,660 for the Advance Style model. To read more, click here for the Autocar article. Lamborghini Huracan STOIf you wish to know what the track focused YouTube star will be trying to get their mitts on and wrap, have a look at the Huracan STO, which Lamborghini have stripped a lot of weight from. Costing only £268,000 this 1339kg (dry weight) version has got both the chaps quite interested in. To find out more, including how they've got it in Motoring Podcast colours, click the Autocar link here. LUNCHTIME READ: FESTIVAL OF THE UNEXCEPTIONALAlan went to the Festival of the Unexceptional. So did many of our friends from Car Twitter. You can find out what happened by clicking Hagerty's own article link here. LIST OF THE WEEK: LITTLE CAR DETAILS YOU CARE ABOUTJalopnik asked their readers what are the little details that can make or break a car for them. Click here for the slideshow and no prizes for guessing which one the chaps highlighted. Don't forget to say which detail is the one for you and letting the podcast know. AND FINALLY: NEW MULSANNE LIMOS FOR SALEBentley has found five Grand Limousines that are now for sale, after the model finished production last year. These are unregistered and undriven examples of the stretched Mulsanne, so be quick to get in touch with your nearest dealer! To find out more, click here for the Autocar article

We explore the politics of mask and vaccination mandates in the US and get the latest from the Olympics in Tokyo. Plus: will a change to the Highway Code in the UK inspire more people to cycle and walk?

On this weeks program Chris and Steve discuss upcoming Victoria Road & Station Street pop-up bike lanes in Thornbury, Northcote and Fairfield, Logan Martin taking Olympic gold in the BMX freestyle, another Magpie swooping season, riding in windy weather, crowd sourced riding distance choices via social media, UK Highway Code developing new hierarchy of priority, BBC: Walking and biking prioritised in new Highway Code, Hastily abandoned low-traffic schemes could cost councils funding in the UK, Letter: Division in Dulwich published in Forbes and check out the new Napier Street Cycling Improvements in North Fitzroy

How we sometimes view transgressions through different eyes.

Need help with the theory test? Sign up to the 5 Minute Theory training course here: https://tcdrive-learning.teachable.com/ (https://tcdrive-learning.teachable.com/) where you'll get access to over 40 training videos to help you learn, understand and pass your theory test! What do I need to learn? Where can I find the information? What apps should I use? What's the Highway Code?  All questions I frequently get asked when discussing the theory test and in this episode I answer them. I'll provide you with the best resources to use and give you a good idea of how to use them. I also provide some tips around using the multiple choice apps and how to get the most out of them. Is it possible to just memorise all the theory test questions and answers? Probably, but that's not going to help you on you're driving lessons and driving test if you don't actually understand them.  If you want more theory practice, you can sign up for my theory test training course here: https://tcdrive-learning.teachable.com/ If you'd like to get in touch, or want to follow the show, you can catch me on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TCDrivingSchool Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcdriving_school/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TCDrive1 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYznETNAtrzQ5AfXGfCLMfA Website: https://www.tcdrive.co.uk/theory.html#/

Fighting knife crime before it happens; Scotland's "not proven" verdicts; and the law on automated cars. Knife crime in England and Wales is at its highest in ten years. Some young people can find it hard to resist gangs or knives for what they see as self-protection. Often they end up in the criminal justice system. Some argue the law is not the answer. But what is the alternative? We hear from a youth worker at the successful youth centre Youth Futures, and from a retired senior criminal barrister, who has launched an online one-stop-shop, fightingknifecrime.london, for those seeking or offering help to keep young people out of trouble. In Scotland, juries can find defendants guilty, not guilty or not proven. If guilt is "not proven", the defendant is acquitted and regarded as innocent in law. Should that third option be abolished? Juries often use "not proven" in rape cases, if they feel guilt has not been proven 'beyond reasonable doubt' (the requirement for a guilty verdict) but nor do they want to imply they disbelieved the alleged victim. Now some campaigners want to abolish the "not proven" option, as research has shown that if it didn't exist, more juries would find the accused guilty, even in rape cases. The government has announced that cars will be allowed to steer themselves in slow-moving motorway traffic, so long as they had been approved for use with automated lane-keeping systems. But what does the law say about liability for automated vehicles? Who is responsible if there is an accident? Is it the driver or the car manufacturer? What changes are being introduced by this year's Automated and Electric Vehicles Act and the planned changes to the Highway Code? Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg Producer: Arlene Gregorius Researcher: Diane Richardson

...Yes, in the films it's meant to be amusing and not particularly scary. But, you may have wondered how the transport system works in busy cities in other countries, India, for example, and be amazed at how there aren't more collisions and disasters given that there doesn't appear to be much organisation on the highway. It works for them somehow!

The journalist, runner and presenter at the Running Channel explains why she's switched her focus from the marathon to the 5K – and why now is the perfect time to do the same. Kate also talks about her favourite 5K workouts and the importance of strength and conditioning. We also have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make runners seen, and heard, in the Highway Code. Please sign the petition to make the roads safer, happier places for all of us: http://bit.ly/RunSomeLetter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dougie Rankine (Editor of Truck & Driver Magazine) and Chris Maddison (owner of possibly the UK's most famous Foden) catch up on this weekly podcast for lorry drivers.Please subscribe to the Truck & Driver Podcast so that you never miss an episode and keep up-to-date with the latest news at truckanddriver.co.uk

The eclectic mix of motoring and motor sport related conversation this time includes:Enjoying track daysProposed changes to the Highway CodeIs Lewis Hamilton The Greatest? Sir Jackie doesn't think so!Is Your Car Getting Fat?More at  www.UKMotorTalk.co.uk and http://ukmotortalk.co.uk/2020/10/podcast-is-lewis-the-greatest-dont-veer-for-deer-is-your-car-getting-fat/

The Highway Code is changing and we all have the chance to influence those changes.  If you ever ride a bike (or for that matter drive or walk down a street) it is worth having your say. Duncan Dollimore, the Head of Advocacy and Campaigns at Cycling UK, explains what's proposed, where the controversy lies, and how you can influence the new highway code before October 2020.  Too often we feel those in power make decisions we can't influence.  This time, we can.If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting costs by buying me a virtual coffee at www.ko-fi.com/sunartmediaCycling UK's response toolhttps://action.cyclinguk.org/page/64572/action/1Cycling UK's 10 key changeshttps://www.cyclinguk.org/sites/default/files/document/2020/07/highway_code_10_key_changes_0.pdfCycling UK's Duncan Dollimore, bloghttps://www.cyclinguk.org/blog/what-you-can-do-improve-highway-codeDFT Consultation documenthttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/904038/consultation-on-a-review-of-the-highway-code.pdfDFT Response pagehttps://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/K736D5/Check out our YouTube channel 

Welcome back to episode nine - the one before episode ten! This week we chat about:Digital mapping of James' houseStrange map shapes!The Highway Code rant - Helmets & HeadphonesBranchage...it's a Jersey thing! Pirelli eMTB TyresInfluencer - paid promotions - Are they objective?James' bike service - what do I have done?Woom eMTB for kids...is this right?Biking holiday 2020 - Is it back on?Muc-Off Peaty's Bike CleanerNew Trousers! New Jersey! Nanny videoWhat's coming soon to our YouTube channelIf you want to get in touch, please email us on podcast@theemtbshow.comSee you next week! 

As our children approach adulthood, they are so desperate to gain and develop their newfound independence - so the last thing they want is parental restrictions being thrust upon them to cramp their style!BUT - in this fast-paced world - Boundaries are EXACTLY what our children need.   In this episode, I discuss the importance of sticking to your guns and having healthy boundaries for your child to adhere to.   Boundaries are often be greeted by teenagers with repeated objections - but our children do indeed thrive when there are clearly defined parameters to live by  (just like motorists adhering to the Highway Code) - without specific rules, family life would be chaotic.   Boundaries bring clarity.I explain why boundaries need to be child-centered and not an attempt for parents to maintain the upper hand!   Children feel safer with boundaries in place - though teenagers are highly likely to admit to this. Without particular ‘standards' being put into place, each decision and course of action turns into a negotiable tug-of-war. This just builds resentment as each power struggle escalates.   I talk about what parents can do to ease the friction in the home so that healthy boundaries can be put in place and give way to a calmer atmosphere in the home.   If you need to get in touch - please email me at toolbox@caigraham.com   If Anxiety Levels are running high in your home - then I have a couple of resources for you:   My Anxiety course provides you with support by :✔️ Recognising the triggers  Understanding Anxiety - and why we don't want to get rid of it all together  Learning a couple of techniques to help you stop a panic attack in it's tracks How as a parent, you can support your anxious child  

Listen to this month’s episode of the Government Digital Service podcast to hear about the award winning step by step work on GOV.UK. Kate Ivey-Williams and Sam Dub, from the GOV.UK team, explain why and how the navigation was created and its impact on users.  A full transcript of the episode follows.    Laura Stevens: Hello and welcome to the Government Digital Service podcast. My name is Laura Stevens and I’m a writer here at GDS. Today we’re going to be speaking about the award-winning ‘Step by Step’ navigation on GOV.UK. This is a navigation that breaks down complex tasks into simple steps. The navigation follows you throughout your journey, indicating what to do now and next. It also shows you what previous steps you might have missed. For example, getting a provisional driving licence before booking a driving theory test. To tell me more about this is Kate Ivey-Williams and Sam Dub, so, please, could you introduce yourself and tell me what you do here at GDS, for Kate first?   Kate Ivey-Williams:   Yes, so I am Service Design Lead for GOV.UK. That basically means my work focuses on 2 things. It’s looking at how the platform of GOV.UK helps government to deliver services, but also looking at how the GOV.UK programme, as a group of people, are helping government to improve those services.   Laura Stevens: Sounds great, and Sam?   Sam Dub:   I’m a product manager working on GOV.UK. For the last couple of years, really, I’ve been focusing on navigation of GOV.UK. That means, really, making things easy to find, but also, with ‘Step by Step’ navigation, making things easier to do. Ways that we can join things up so they make sense for users is a key part of that.   Laura Stevens: Okay. Your team won a prestigious design award last month. That was from D&AD. How did you feel when you found out about that?   Kate Ivey-Williams:   Really exciting. I think it’s like you spend a lot of time looking inwards at government and having a strong belief that you’re working on the right things and doing things that make sense, but it’s very nice to get recognition from people outside of your world of work, and peers across the industry, that the thing that you’re working on is a good thing and that it feels meaningful beyond just the context that we’re working in.   Sam Dub: I think one of the things that’s really nice about it is it’s an iteration on GOV.UK. A lot of the work there are like re-launches or rebrands, and this is like a continuation of some of the thinking that’s been around GOV.UK since the beginning. It feels like a kind of validation of a process of iteration, like week by week, month by month, we’ve got to this new place. It’s quite exciting.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   I was a bit unsure, actually, whether we would win an award, because obviously GOV.UK has won 2 awards previously, mostly focused on… They were awards for content design, and I was unsure whether entering this they would just see it like, “GOV… It’s just the same thing.”   Laura Stevens: You’re just getting all the awards, aren’t you?   Kate Ivey-Williams:   They’re just, “What do you want another award for?” But we entered it in a different category and I think they did understand that we’re trying to achieve slightly different things. Driven by the same principles, we’re now focusing on doing slightly different things and working in slightly different ways than we did 5 years ago, or whenever we won the previous awards.   Sam Dub: It built on that work. The early achievement, the big achievement of GOV.UK in its first year was just getting everything together in the same place. That’s something that Neil Williams was talking about on… I think it was the first or second episode of the podcast.   Laura Stevens:   Yes, the first podcast; yes.   Sam Dub: He was leading that work. Just getting all those departmental websites shut down and all that content moved into one place was a huge achievement. Then there was a, kind of, follow-on challenge for that, which was like, “How do we make this stuff findable and usable, and how do we join this content up and these transactions up across departments?” We’re able to do what we’re doing because of that work that came before us, but it follows in a, kind of, tradition of ideas of, like, joining things up for users, making things easy, like making sure that users don’t have to understand the structure of government in order to find what they need.   Laura Stevens:   This is what I was going to talk about, like how ‘Step by Step’ came about. What was the genesis of it?   Kate Ivey-Williams: It’s, kind of, the reason that I joined GOV.UK. I was one of the first service designers to join GDS as an organisation. Lou Downe joined first and established service design as a profession within GDS, and then they brought in myself and another person. I joined GOV.UK with the idea that, “Okay, you’re going to be on GOV.UK and you’re going to think about how does GOV.UK do services?”  I’ve been at GDS for about 4 years now, and it took, probably, about a year and a half before we could kick off this work in any meaningful way, because we had to still do quite a lot of technical work on GOV.UK, bringing all the content into one place so that we could do consistent universal navigation across all content. There was quite a lot of technical debt to deal with.  It’s been ticking along and our ideas have been evolving, a year and a half ago, we were able to really kick this work off in earnest and think about how all of those ideas translate into something actual, real.   Sam Dub:   Yes, and it’s such an attractive idea. For me, somebody who didn’t have all that background, coming to it at that point, it was just such an exciting idea – the idea that we could have, like, a single page that would tell you everything you needed to do in order to get something done, something big, and chunky, and meaningful, like learning to drive, or starting a business, or employing someone, these complicated processes. If, as government, we could just create one page that’s well structured and explains exactly what you need to do, that’s such a valuable thing for users, for citizens. That was a really exciting idea to just pick up and run with.   Laura Stevens: Why did you pick the first one, which was ‘Learning to Drive’?    Kate Ivey-Williams:   There was quite a lot of previous work done in that area. When Lou first joined GDS, they went off to Swansea, and worked a lot with DVLA, and were looking at a lot of the driving services, so we had quite a historical knowledge base in that area and already had quite a good understanding of that journey.  From that respect, it was quite a good one to pick up, because we had stuff we could build on, but it also is a journey that’s quite simple, and linear, and quite easily understood.   Sam Dub: I think it’s, kind of, exemplifies what this pattern, this design pattern, this new feature on GOV.UK is for, in that inside ’Learning to Drive’ you’ve got a load of guidance. You’ve got stuff like… The ‘Highway Code’ is probably the best-known part of that. You’ve got all these kinds of transactions you need to do with government.  Before you start, you’ve got to get a provisional driving licence. That’s a transaction with government. Then, at some point in that process, you’ve got to do your theory test. You’ve got to take some driving lessons. Then you’ve got to take your practical test.  You’ve got to do those things in the right order, like you can’t take a driving test until you’ve got your provisional licence. So, it was just a really nice kind of model for how we could start organising that content in a simple sequence that made sense to people, to make that easier.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   ‘Learn to Drive’ had quite a good mix of things across it that we could start testing the pattern slightly about how it could deal with real processes that a user’s going through, not just the government processes.   Laura Stevens: I was actually going to talk through the design of that, because it went through quite a few rounds, iterations.  Sam Dub: Like with most things, we start in identifying a need. We knew that we needed to join up transactions and guidance, because you need both. You need to engage with the guidance, and you need to do these transactions, so we started developing prototypes for how we do that.  As with most things in GDS and GOV.UK, we start with user research. That’s bringing in people who are in the process of learning to drive. We put these early prototypes in front of them and we really asked them just to go through the… To engage with them naturally, as if they were in their own homes, and do the parts of the journey where they were at, at the moment.  That allowed us to evolve a design over… I think it was, in the creation of the original pattern, about 10 rounds of user research. Each time, we were bringing a slightly different prototype, like building on the learnings and insights from the previous round, and really honing this design pattern to a point where users felt comfortable with it. It felt natural, it felt intuitive to them. Laura Stevens: You also went up to Neath, as well. Kate Ivey-Williams:   To the Digital Accessibility Centre. Yes, that was good. We went a whole crew of us. We were, like, the back end, front end: me, the designer; you, the product manager; user research. We all went along and we tested it with, I think, around 10 people who were in the Digital Accessibility Centre who have varying access needs, whether that be cognitive ability or sight, or perhaps it’s… I think one of the people we tested with has ADHD [Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]. There were quite a lot of different access needs that we tested against, and that was… It was such an interesting day, yes.   Sam Dub: Yes, we learnt tons from that, and that directly translated into improvements to the designs that make it work better – for everybody, actually.    Laura Stevens: Now there are 41 ‘Step by Step’ lives. You’ve got quite a range. You’ve got, obviously, the first one, ‘Learning to Drive a Car’, ‘Getting Married’, ‘Getting Divorced’. On a slightly lighter note, you’ve got ‘Reporting Treasure’, as well.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   Yes.    Sam Dub: Yes.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   My favourite.   Sam Dub: For the metal detectorists out there, if you find your Anglo-Saxon hoard, unfortunately you have to tell the government about that. You can’t just keep it and so that’s a ‘Step by Step’ process. It’s about, like, we deliberately picked early on these wildly diverse types of processes from, like, something really emotionally taxing and legally complicated, like divorce, and then something like, if you find buried treasure or the cargo of a shipwreck, you have to tell government about that. We were testing to make sure that this pattern could handle all these different kinds of interactions that people have to make with government.   Laura Stevens: How did you go about creating these step by step?   Kate Ivey-Williams:    We’ve developed a bit of a standardised process now where we’ve now got enough traction with government that in the early days we were going out to departments and saying, “We think your thing would work really well as part of this user journey thing that we’re doing on GOV.UK. You don’t really know what it is yet, but we’d love to give it a go. Can you be our alpha partners?” to a point where we’ve now got enough traction with government that they’re coming to us so we’ve actually got hundreds of ‘Step by Step’ journeys in our backlog that we could build, and now it’s about picking up them, based on prioritisation. And once we… We have 2 different starting points. Sometimes you have a really tangible idea of what the journey is and who the users are. When you’ve got that idea, you can start building a draft of that journey internally in GOV.UK with our content designers, who are brilliant service designers, actually. They interrogate the content on GOV.UK and start mapping out a draft of this thing.  Then, alongside that, we start working out who are the departments involved? Who do we need to get into a room to go through this journey, validate it, make sure that we are going to be pointing at the right things, in the right order, so that users can do all the things they need to do? Sometimes you start off with a much more fuzzy service area where you’re not quite sure what journeys should be built in that area, or it’s just it’s a bit complicated. You need to think: how are you going to break that down?    Laura Stevens: Does that journey happen here at GDS, or would you go out to the departments?   Sam Dub:   It’s generally whatever works for the participants. I think this is, maybe, a thing that, outside government, people are not necessarily so aware of: that, with a journey like employing somebody, that’s how a user sees it in terms of, “Okay, I need to hire someone for my business,” but actually that’s owned. The guidance and the transactions are owned by 5 different departments that could be in 5 different offices, in 5 different parts of the country.  What’s exciting is getting all those people in a room together and going, “Actually, collectively, as government, we own this thing. We own the journey. You don’t just own your little bit. We all, together, can make the journey of employing someone really simple, quick, seamless.” It’s really exciting getting those people in the room. People are generally really up for that, like they’re enthusiastic about making the whole thing better.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   More often than not, as well, these workshops, it’s the first time that these people have ever met or thought about how their things join up. That’s really one of the key reasons why this ‘Step by Step’ stuff exists. It’s not just about creating a good experience for users who are trying to do things with government. It’s like 20% that, but it’s like 80% getting government to understand their services, and know who else in government they need to collaborate with when they’re thinking about improving those services, and getting them to take ownership of that as a joined-up, cross-departmental group of people.   Sam Dub: That’s what we really hope happens with this stuff, is that when we’re just getting started in terms of, like, we’re at 41 at the moment, there are hundreds of these kinds of services that the government provides.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   So many – so many.    Sam Dub: We’ve got a lot of work to do.   Laura Stevens: You’ve been busy.   Sam Sub:   But then once, even for … So, the 40 that we’ve mapped out – and you can go see them on GOV.UK – they’re also just the beginning. Those things are 7 or 8 step processes. It’s really great to have a group of people come together and, maybe, have a think about: “Okay, now we’ve mapped it out and seen it all in one place, actually that’s quite complicated,” like, “This, maybe, doesn’t need to be an 8 step process. Maybe we have a policy goal which is reducing this down to 3 steps.” That as, like, Step By Steps’ as an enabler of, like, transformation and improvement of services is one of our goals for this work.   Kate Ivey Williams: It’s journey mapping, basically, which is like… As a service designer, that’s our bread and butter, is doing journey mapping, because that’s how you understand how everything works and what’s going wrong, but it’s translating that into something that’s, kind of, shiny and people want it.    Laura Stevens: There have been some really good outcomes, I’ve got some figures, like since launch it’s been used by 10.5 million people. Is that still correct?    Kate Ivey-Williams:   Yes, possibly more because I think that’s the numbers for the overview pages, which are… Within every ‘Step by Step’ journey you’ve got, like, the overview page, which is the journey on one page, but then every page within that end-to-end service will also have the ‘Step by Step’ navigation on. Actually, there are more people using the navigation on the content and transaction pages than they are using the overview pages, so yes.   Sam Dub: Yes, that’s one of the key insights that are shaping GOV.UK, is the fact that users generally start from search, and they land deep in GOV.UK on content, or they might only think about the process in terms of a transaction. They might think about driving in terms of:  “Okay, I’ve got to take a test.” Actually, there’s a load of stuff you need to do before you get to there. It’s about helping users, when they arrive on a piece of content, to go, “Actually, this is part of a 5 step process. Maybe I need to hop back a few steps, do a little bit first, and then I can do this bit.”  We’re making it clear on the site. You’ll see it looks like a kind of underground map on the right-hand side of webpages. It’s a beautiful, responsive design, so it looks good on mobile, too. It’ll show you exactly, using this kind of underground line metaphor, exactly where you are in that process.  We’ve seen that in the lab, users telling us, like, “This is really useful. This makes this process seem manageable,” for some things that often don’t, things that people often need, maybe get professional help or have to call and have to get a lawyer to come and help them do it because it feels so vast and unmanageable. Just by breaking it down and saying, “This is what you need to do now. This is what you need to do next,” really, really helps people. Laura Stevens: How do you know that people are reading the content and making use of it?   Sam Dub:   I think we start with user research, but then we start looking for data at [site] scale [when we] start publishing things on GOV.UK. One of the things that we developed alongside the ‘Step by Step’ navigation is this new component. You’ll see it at the bottom of every single page on GOV.UK. It’s just got one very short question in a little blue bar at the bottom of the page, and it just says, ‘Is this useful, yes or no?’. It’s a kind of live usefulness vote that we’ve got running on every page of the site.  This is a common technique across the web. We didn’t invent this, but it gives you a very useful starting metric for what’s working for users and what’s not. It’ll often flag an issue that you then might want to take into a user research lab and look at more in detail: “Actually, what’s going wrong here?” But one of the first signs we had that we were like, “Really on the right track here,” is that the usefulness scores for the new ‘Step by Step’ journeys that we published – the first [set of] ‘Step by Step’ journeys – were way higher than some of the things that they were replacing, and equivalent formats.  We had, like 80%, 90% usefulness scores, which were great news for us. I think the no prompt, if you say, ‘No, this page isn’t useful,’ you’re prompted to give us a bit of feedback. If one of the ‘Step by Steps’ isn’t working for you, there is this mechanism for people to say, “Actually, this is why. This is the bit you’ve… You’ve missed this bit,” or, “I’m in this circumstance and this doesn’t work for me.” It’s a way of us getting feedback at scale from users, and that’s always where we’re focused. We’re always watching the live performance data of what we’re doing, to make sure that it’s right for the circumstance, that it’s right for where we’ve applied it.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   We know it helps people because we’ve seen, for example, the ‘Applying for tax-free childcare’, once we introduce the ‘Step by Step’ – well, the hypothesis before we built the ‘Step by Step’ was that people were not checking whether it was right for them, or they weren’t checking their eligibility before jumping into the transaction itself to apply. They were using the application process as a bit of an eligibility checker, which is not what it’s built for.  Because of that, a lot of people were dropping out, or failing, or applying for the wrong thing. After introducing the ‘Step by Step’ navigation, in the analytics we saw more people who were hitting the transaction page but then jumping back to the eligibility guidance, and then coming back to the transaction and going through it successfully because they were going through with confidence that this was the right thing for them. Fewer people were applying for it incorrectly.   Sam Dub: That – those kind improvements, getting people just, like, not jumping into transactions that are wrong for them, filling in the right form – is like, one, it saves users tons of time, and primarily that’s what we care about. The secondary impact of that is that also, in turn, saves government loads of money, like having to deal with forms that aren’t filled in right, or calls to call centres because someone doesn’t understand how stuff [has been]… How a service works. That also costs government money, and civil servants time. So, by making things better for users, it has this benefit of saving government time and money, as well, which is really nice.   Kate Ivey-Williams: I’m nodding.    Laura Stevens:  Can you give me a step by step to making a ‘Step by Step’? Sam Dub: There’s a serious one. As a family, we’ve been talking a lot about lasting power of attorney, and everyone in my family is healthy and good, but my parents are in their late 60s and it’s a sensible thing for people to start talking about and planning ahead.  So, within, like, family WhatsApp groups and email, people are just pinging around links to GOV.UK guidance, going, ‘Have a look at this. Is this like…?’ Because there’s a different role for the person who is making the lasting power of attorney, and the people who will, essentially, have an obligation to look after that person if something was to happen to their health.  We’re pinging around guidance, discussing this, and I’m sitting there going, “We should totally do this,” like, “There’s a user need here.” This is complicated. There are decisions being taken. It’s a thing that some people go and seek legal advice about.  Whilst, as a product manager, I wouldn’t abuse my position to get stuff made that’s helpful to me, there’s an indication that there might be a need there. That’s something that we could do the research to actually see if there really was something there, but I’d love to see that happen.   Laura Stevens: How would you go about doing that if you wanted to create that particular one?   Sam Dub:   In that case, you would look at the parts of the service and the guidance that exists around it. Then you get someone like Kate to come and run this, these workshops that we’ve now got pretty practised at, but Kate can probably tell you what happens.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   Yes, less me and more the content designers, because they are experts in knowing what’s on GOV.UK and how it all fits together. They’re really good. Content design is basically about explaining government services in a really clear way so that people understand them.  And I think we’ve now got to a point where we’ve got the right balance where we’re taking something in that helps them share their knowledge and helps us to get moving quickly so that we can give them something back quickly that is the results of their collaboration.   Sam Dub: Invariably, something does emerge that’s new and that is a new way of framing something. That is something that no one department could have done on their own.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   Exactly.   Sam Dub: We certainly couldn’t have come, arrived with that up our sleeve and said, like, “This is how it’s going to be structured.” It’s a genuine collaborative process where the input of the expertise in the departments about the different parts of those journeys come together to create this thing that is, hopefully, framed in a way that makes sense to users and is how they think about it, rather than how government thinks about that problem.   Laura Stevens: Yes, I was going to touch on that, how you’re making government think about itself as a place that delivers services. It sounds like, [with all] this collaboration, that’s been a key outcome from this.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   There are a lot going on across government to help them think about things in a slightly different way, to help them think about themselves as service providers. Like, the new service standard is really strong on that, and about getting government to think about services and whole problems, and tackling those collaboratively, but I think ‘Step by Step’ is one of the really tangible tools that enables departments to start work on that. It’s the first step on the road, I think, yes.    Laura Stevens: And I should probably also finish the Step by Step. Once the workshop has been done, what’s the next stage with your service here?    Kate Ivey-Williams:   Usually, if we’re going into that workshop with a fairly good idea of the journey and we have that very draft-y thing in the publishing tool, as the conversations are going on with the departments that’s been facilitated by someone from our team, someone else in our team is sitting in the background, updating the draft of that thing in the publishing tool.  So, by the end of the workshop we can show them the tangible output, a sort of first-draft example of what they’ve been discussing, with the caveat that we need to take that away and do a bit more massaging of the content. Then the thing gets “2i” internally. That’s a jargon-y term for it gets reviewed by another content designer within GOV.UK. Then we send it out for fact-check with departments. This follows our standard mainstream guidance fact-check process, where it goes to the subject-matter experts within departments, who then say, “Yes, that is factually correct. Go ahead and sign it off.” Or they give us feedback about, “Actually, you’ve misunderstood something there.”    Sam Dub: I always enjoy when it goes to the lawyers. That’s when you know it’s like… That’s when you know you’re changing stuff, because the lawyers are there to make sure that, in the way that we’re presenting this in a simple way, we aren’t straying from what’s legally correct, and we aren’t misleading people, but we are… Presenting some of these complicated legal processes as a simple one-pager does mean it needs to get read and fact-checked by a lawyer in the process. There is often this wide range of expertise that we need to consult, and people who, in the process of reframing this stuff, we’ve had to consult, but everything’s gone live. At every point, we’ve reached a consensus. When everyone sees it at the end, they go, “Oh,” like, “That’s better.”    Kate Ivey-Williams:   Yes.   Laura Stevens: Does it go back to that point of, exposing those…? Perhaps the policy challenges that this is what part of the process is.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   Yes. I think sometimes a confusing and complex policy is hidden in guidance that is spread across GOV.UK. When you extract it and expose it in this really simplified view of that thing, you actually realise the policy is complicated or the thing doesn’t make sense, because the policy is complicated.  Hopefully, that is… Showing them that is the start of a process of thinking: “How can we simplify this, because this is confusing users and this is making work for us, as government, it’s making work for them to try and understand something which should just be simple.”   Sam Dub:   That was really one of the early learnings of this, was that we needed to get the policymakers in the room for those workshops, because often there can be a process where our content designers do a bunch of work and then they pass it over to policy people. Some context is lost there. If you’ve got the policymakers in the room from the start, that’s another kind of collaboration. It’s different departments and it’s different disciplines being there to inform the process.   Laura Stevens: These ‘Step by Steps’ have also been very helpful to the voice assistant work, as well, haven’t they?   Sam Dub:   Yes. This is part of a broader strategy. We sometimes talk about GOV.UK now… Or trying to make GOV.UK understandable to humans and understandable to machines. I sometimes wonder, when we say that, what people are imagining, like some kind of robot overlords.   Kate Ivey-Williams: Exactly.   Laura Stevens:   Our new user.    Sam Dub: To be clear, to clear this up on the GDS podcast, not for the robot overlords, one example of what we mean by that is so that our content is understandable to search engines. If you do a search for becoming a driving instructor or learning to drive a car, from a search engine on mobile – actually, this is something that’s gone live in the last month – they’re able to see the… The search engine is able to look at the structure of our content.  You get, like, this little carousel of steps that appears that you can swipe through. You can jump to: “I’m at step 3 of ‘Learning to Drive’,” like, “I’ve got my provisional licence, so now I’m studying for my test, so I can jump to that.” That’s powered by some mark-up that we’ve added to our ‘Step by Steps’ that makes them easier for machines to read. It’s the same mark-up that powers search that can also power voice assistance, so you can query those ‘Step by Steps’ – or the content within those ‘Step by Steps’ – in the same way.   Laura Stevens: I’ve also seen a figure floating round that there are, like, 400 services you want to do this to. Is that how many, or is it literally just-?   Kate Ivey-Williams:   That’s that finger in the air. I think that’s based off of the amount of mainstream guidance we have, which is it covers the really major, far-reaching government services, but, because ‘Step by Step’ navigation can work across all content on GOV.UK, it means that even beyond those 400, if there are departments who are sitting in some really niche area of government, they can still start using this pattern for something that [might]… Maybe it only has 200 users a year, but they can still start thinking about it and piecing their journey together in the depths of Whitehall content, as well. There’s potentially way more than 400, but that covers some of the really key services that we know we would like to build.   Laura Stevens: What sort of journeys are definitely not ‘Step by Steps’? Like, when you’re thinking, if you’re listening and you’re working on a service, what would be not suitable?   Sam Dub: This is a crude indicator of it, it’s generally stuff you need to do in more than one sitting, like you can’t learn to drive or get married in one web session. It’s going to take a bit longer.   Kate Ivey-Williams:   One day. I think you can in Estonia, probably.   Sam Dub: It will generally be something where you’ve got to read a bit of GOV.UK, go and do a thing in the real world, come back, and then read or do something else. That’s a, kind of, gut-feel indicator of when some navigation that’s going to help people join up those activities is going to help. Kate Ivey-Williams:    When I think about the ‘Step by Steps’ I want to build, one of the ones I really wanted to do was what to do when someone dies, because it is these high-emotion, really difficult times of life when the last thing you want to be doing is thinking about government admin. I know they’re a bit depressing, but that’s what motivates me, is to take the pressure off people at those horrible times and make life a little bit easier.  I think other ‘Step by Steps’ I would love to build would be, like, helping people who are out of work, and tying together all the services and the suite of things in that space that could support them in that time of life, or other things like that. That’s where we can add, I think, the most value.   Sam Dub:   It’s those moments in life where you really value somebody saying, like, “You just do this, do this, do this, and you’ll be fine.” Yes, that’s what motivates us, I think.   Kate Ivey-Williams:    Totally, yes.   Laura Stevens: Not adding unnecessary stress or pressure on a highly emotional situation.   Kate Ivey-Williams:    Yes. Who wants to think about government when you’ve got all that other stuff on your plate? No-one. I think it’s about making government much more invisible. Ultimately, people don’t want to think about that. They want to get on with their lives.   Laura Stevens: “Thank you” to Kate, and, “Thank you” to Sam today. You can listen to all the episodes of the Government Digital Service podcast on Apple Music, Spotify, and all other major podcast platforms, and you can read the transcripts on Podbean. Thank you very much again.   Sam Dub:   Thank you.   Kate Ivey-Williams:    Thanks for having us.

This game has been organized on the Gauntlet Community Gaming Calendar. You can find more about the gauntlet at: Blog: www.gauntlet-rpg.com Forum: https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com Calendar: https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/events Legacy 2e: Life among the ruins is a game by Jay Iles: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237393/Legacy-Life-Among-the-Ruins-2nd-Edition Ages come and go; the First Age gives in to the next, and the Sandstorm and Sledgehammers are force by bad blood and the incoming threat of the Stormwalker - a terrifying being of biomechanical origins. After wandering for months with only meager conquests, they find a price: a vast highway network, preserved by separated subroutines and protected by the Lawbringers, followers of the Highway Code.

John 8:31-32 NLT Jesus said to the people who believed in him, ‘You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” I remember fondly my art teacher from schooldays, whose great catchphrase was, “Rules are made for fools!” While this sounds like the slogan of an anarchist, he explained its meaning in simple terms. Most rules were the product of common sense and no sensible person would want to break them. So the Highway Code ensures that the rules of the road are commonly understood. When broken, accidents happen. They are often broken because of one person’s selfish need to serve their interests at the expense of other road users. “Rules are made for fools” might offer a useful paraphrase here for Jesus’ teaching. Only as we discover the value of Jesus’ teachings can we begin to live in complete freedom. My prison is less bricks, mortar and bars but the thoughts that continually assault my mind, stirring up self-consciousness, fears and anxiety. My learning has been that God has my interests in hand, even though I cannot see my end from my beginning. I take time in silence with God at the start of each day. As I focus on God, using the Jesus prayer to focus me upon my purpose, my mind unleashes hundreds of different thoughts, each seeking to capture my attention and distract me from God. If you have ever grown strawberries, you will know that the plants put out runners after fruiting. Simply pot these runners and you have yourself new strawberry plants for the next year. Like these runners, my mind gets captured by a thought and I begin to pot it and give it life of its own before recalling why I am taking this time in silence. God wants his rules for life to establish themselves in our lives. For that to happen, we are to read scripture, pray and engage with others seeking to serve and follow God. QUESTION: How can you know Christ’s teachings better? PRAYER: Thank you, Jesus, that you are the truth and that you have set me free. Help me hold onto you.

Are you outside? It’s a joy isn’t it! (If not, look out of a window or something). Absorb the things you see; the glory of nature’s gifts. We often take them for granted, but be warned: the landscape changes quicker than you can say ‘Pass me the Highway Code it’s time I genned up on my bridleway etiquette’. Modern civilisation’s obsession with progress is the natural world’s greatest threat (alongside plastic of course) and Richard is appalled by this. Michael, however is not so quick to hysterical behaviour. A robust dialogue ensues. Gentlemen’s Relish: Helping you relish your potential.

This week technology does not seem to have thwarted the chaps in some way or another. So listen in as the chaps talk about the Gordon Murray OX prototype going to India, Tesla and NTSB arguing over how they should complete a safety investigation, Herbert Diess is the new CEO of VW, JLR is cutting agency workers and production thanks to a reduction in new car sales, Vauxhall will terminate all dealership contracts, John Miles is remembered, the Formula E result from Rome, Sweeden deploys an electric car charging road, Uber looking at all mobility options, Wyoming's most popular cars and what the Highway Code should actually contain.

Special Guest: Beth Stallwood, Director & Lead Consultant, Transforment You’re on the engagement train. You’ve championed the importance, sold the benefits and you’ve got the leaders on board. Perhaps you’ve even done a survey and have the results. You want to act… But what do you focus on? Of course, taking action is critical (and there’s no point investing in surveys if you don’t do anything with the results!) but the survey only tells a part of the story. In this show, Beth will talk about taking a pause to observe what’s really going on. Join us as we discuss that adding insight to data and considering where to act will help you make the most difference to employee engagement in your organisation. With practical tips and techniques, Beth will guide you on what to look and listen for to help you work out what to do. Beth is an organisational and people development expert, with an impressive track record of enabling businesses to achieve results by transforming the way they develop, engage and lead their people. She has a reputation for being an impactful presenter, engaging facilitator and leadership coach. By getting under the skin of organisations, she develops and delivers practical solutions that are right for the business – whatever the product, service or sector. A real relationship-builder and stakeholder-influencer at all levels, she intuitively adapts to meet the needs of individuals, teams and organisations. Host: Jo Dodds

The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast: Episode 162 Sunday, June 4th, 2017 "Overtaking at 90 miles per hour" HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Jim Moss & Donna Tocci SPONSOR: Jenson USA TOPICS 200 bikes and a lot of cash: What it costs a bike brand to sponsor a WorldTour team. Will NASCAR's most popular driver bring cycling to a new audience? Professional Bicycle Mechanic creating training courses for mechanics and National Bicycle Dealers Association buys Barnett Bicycle Institute. Plus, how the UK bike industry has long had a professional qualification for bike mechanics. Crowdfunding in the bike industry. 3-ft passing laws now becoming 5-ft passing laws in some US counties. But should the distance be even greater? How about like in the UK's Highway Code where the “rule” is to give as much room as a motorist would give a car.

This is re-uploaded because iTunes didn't like the last one... It's episode 35! Start your engines. mirror, signal and manoeuvre - it's time for a high speed death chase on the Fury Road! Witness! Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) tells the story of Max... a man who is mad. Max finds himself assisting in a rescue mission. The ringleader of the operation is Imperator Furiosa who is trying to save five women from sexual slavery at the hands of the evil tyrant Immortan Joe. The only problem is, Joe wants the women back, and is willing to chase them to the ends of the earth. We talk about whether it's easier to survive being sane or mad when surrounded by madness; the benefits of The Highway Code; and the relative merits of being a benevolent dictator instead of a tyrant. All of which leads to one big question: How would you survive? Whatever happens, one thing's for sure... I am awaited in Valhalla! Another classic film solved by the best movie podcast in the world.

It's episode 35! Start your engines. mirror, signal and manoeuvre - it's time for a high speed death chase on the Fury Road! Witness! Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) tells the story of Max... a man who is mad. Max finds himself assisting in a rescue mission. The ringleader of the operation is Imperator Furiosa who is trying to save five women from sexual slavery at the hands of the evil tyrant Immortan Joe. The only problem is, Joe wants the women back, and is willing to chase them to the ends of the earth. We talk about whether it's easier to survive being sane or mad when surrounded by madness; the benefits of The Highway Code; and the relative merits of being a benevolent dictator instead of a tyrant. All of which leads to one big question: How would you survive? Whatever happens, one thing's for sure... I am awaited in Valhalla! Another classic film solved by the best movie podcast in the world.

If you've ever seen huge flocks of birds or a shoal of fish, you might have wondered how they are all able to move together without ever colliding. Now scientists at the University of Bristol believe they have been able to explain how flocks of bats are able to avoid collisions, by using just a few simple traffic rules. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

If you've ever seen huge flocks of birds or a shoal of fish, you might have wondered how they are all able to move together without ever colliding. Now scientists at the University of Bristol believe they have been able to explain how flocks of bats are able to avoid collisions, by using just a few simple traffic rules. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

The car - and the autobahn - are still king in Germany. And every autobahn needs a rest stop, of course - even if it is sometimes hidden behind a fence.

In this month’s podcast we hear from Dr Sangeetha Sornalingam, who Dr Simon Glew interviews about her journal article “hirsutism”. We have a follow-up interview between Dr John Gillies, Chair of RCGP Scotland and Dr Hannah McCarthy. This time they discuss his career, RCGP Scotland, leadership, training across the United Kingdom, the e-portfolio, what Dr Gillies believes makes a good GP and international health. Finally, Dr Mahomed Saleh interviews Dr Ben Riley, co-author of the RCGP social media Highway Code and lead clinician for the RCGP curriculum about the use and interpretation of the code. News and views is brought to us by Dr Clare EtheringtonWebsites: “The Challenges of generalism.” John Gillies http://ino.sagepub.com/content/6/11/725.full“Distilling the essence of general practice: a learning journey in progress.” John Gillies et al. http://bjgp.org/content/59/562/e167.full?sid=2db1b0de-5b9a-46b0-bb40-fb024696ac67Lessons from Endeavours. 04/03/14 19:00 hours, Edinburgh. http://www.rcgp.org.uk/courses-and-events/scotland/south-east-scotland-faculty/lessons-from-endeavours.aspx

You can dramatically increase your chances of passing the UK practical driving test on a motorcycle or in a car if you are 100% familiar with the Highway Code.It only costs £2.50, is very small so you can carry it anywhere you go, but it contains tons of information on how you are expected to behave while driving in the UK, the meaning of road signs and markings, but most of all it could help you avoid commiting a serious driving test fault and thus pass at your next attempt. Over the years I have seen many test candidates ignore advice to read the highway code in between lesson make simple mistakes which could have been easily avoided if they mastered the book.Simple things like going over a stop line at traffic lights, understanding filter arrows, reading road signs, etc are all simple things that DSA examiners have failed learners on, nothing to do with driving ability!The video clip below illustrates how lack of knowledge on the part of a candidate who has a test the next day could easily result in a failure with the DSA examiner sitting next to you.There where no cars in the left lane when the learner was about to move into the left hand lane, but doing so whould have meant crossing a solid line bordering the hatched area used to seperate traffic, doing so would have violated the highway code, and this would have been marked as serious driver error on the DL25 examiner report form!Even if you are taking regular lessons with an instructor or doing private practice, there is no harm in reading the Highway Code over and over again. It will only boost your confidence in the knowledge that you are doing the right thing.Buy Highway Code Today!If you require affordable high quality affordable driving lessons from a very helpful, patient and fully qualified instructor, then why not call or send me a text message on 07956233032Subscribe to my Driving Test Tips so you don't miss any future articles and get DSA updates direct to your inbox by Email. The service is provided and powered by Google Feedburner, so I don't personally keep your email addresses, and you can remove yourself anytime after passing the driving test with just one mouse click, you can also follow UKADI on twitter or join my UKADI Facebook page.Please let me know your views by posting a comment on the blog at http://www.ukadi.co.uk

My people think that because they have passed the tough UK DSA driving test, they no longer need to use the rules of the Highway Code when they are in their cars! This is very evident by the number of dangerous drivers that can be seen around.I listen to the radio everyday and 90% of the traffic alerts are due to accidents on the road network which could probably have been avoided especially if people stop driving like those shown in the video below.The fact that you have a number of years no claims bonus does not mean you are a safe driver, and if you continue to ignore the rules you will sooner than later be involved in a serious accident, possibly killing or seriously injuring someone.If you require high quality affordable driving lessons from a very helpful, patient and fully qualified instructor, then why not call or send me a text message on 07956233032Thinking about becoming an instructor? Don't just make a decision based on the red driving school TV advertisement, do the proper research and know all the ADI training options available to you.Subscribe to my Driving Test Tips so you don't miss any future articles and get DSA updates direct to your inbox by Email. The service is provided and powered by Google Feedburner, so I don't personally keep your email addresses, and you can remove yourself anytime after passing the driving test with just one mouse click, you can also follow UKADI on twitter or join my UKADI Facebook page.Please let me know your views by posting a comment on the blog at http://www.ukadi.co.uk

In this short video taken from a typical driving lesson, I illustrate one of the common mistakes learners make while turning right at a traffic light.As has been mentioned so many times before on this blog, junctions are the number one reason for candidates getting serious driver faults, and you need to always approach them slowly, look, assess the situation, make a decision and then act (LADA). This procedure takes some time, and you must not rush or copy other cars in front of you. Get a copy of the Highway Code and read it from cover to cover as this will help you know how to deal with any situation you might get on the driving test, do not be lazy, the extra work done between your lessons will make the difference, and guarantee success.If you require high quality affordable driving lessons from a very helpful, patient and fully qualified instructor, then why not call or send me a text message on 07956233032Thinking about becoming an instructor? Don't just make a decision based on the red driving school TV advertisement, do the proper research and know all the ADI training options available to you.Subscribe to my Driving Test Tips so you don't miss any future articles and get DSA updates direct to your inbox by Email. The service is provided and powered by Google Feedburner, so I don't personally keep your email addresses, and you can remove yourself anytime after passing the driving test with just one mouse click, you can also follow UKADI on twitter or join my UKADI Facebook page.Please let me know your views by posting a comment on the blog at http://www.ukadi.co.uk