Toyota Yaris Hybrid: full details
Full price and specification details for the Toyota Yaris Hybrid have been announced, with the supermini set to become the most affordable hybrid available in the UK.
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Female racers aiming for the top As the Women Racing Drivers' Club celebrates its 50th anniversary, there's a new generation of female racers aiming for the top level of motorsport.
Surveillance has come full circle now There’s not usually much cause for rejoicing when a story breaks about officers of the Metropolitan Police reportedly hauling in a 21-year-old man for the apparent crime of “driving while black”, boasting of strangling him and advising him that: “The problem with you is that you’ll always be a nigger.” But in this case, there is something to cheer. We only know about this incident because — with some presence of mind — the young man in question used his mobile phone to record the alleged abuse.
Me, a have-a-go hero? It’s not worth the hassle Next time, I’ll think twice about foiling a robbery. At 4am on a Sunday morning we were jolted from sleep by an ear-splitting, metallic banging from the commercial units below our holiday apartment in Lanzarote. Incensed as only a rudely awoken middle-aged Englishman can be, I dashed into the night air. In a defunct restaurant behind the large post office I spotted two young men.
The Government's emergency petrol plan is "not fit for purpose", retailers warn The Government's emergency strategy to deal with a national petrol shortage is not "fit for purpose" because forecourt staff have not been trained and have no idea how the plans should work, petrol retailers have warned ministers.
Thousands of petrol stations remain out of fuel Up to 2,700 petrol stations across the UK remain short of fuel following several days of panic buying last week, a study has found.
Competing plans to tackle London crime Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone are launching their crime manifestos today: inevitably, the issue has become something of a bidding war. Boris Johnson is promising local policing boards and more police on the street, while Mr Livingstone is committed to putting a police officer in every school.
Dave needs to woo downstairs as well as upstairs Britain The past two weeks have been difficult for Cameron but they haven’t been the calamitous, defining period that some pundits would have us all believe. The Government was foolish to tell granny to store her pasties in jerry cans sold by a firm that was owned by Tory donors (or whatever it was that ministers are said to have advised) but the Government is far from finished.
Oxford University to introduce driverless car Scientists from Oxford University have announced plans to introduce the first driverless car on Britain's roads.
PH Blog: The curiosities of cold-start driving Harris explores a curious trait of the latest Jaguars and wonders whether there are other cars out there with cold-running foibles
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