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New research form the Highways Agency shows that nearly half of UK drivers are unprepared for winter driving conditions.

In a survey of motorists across the UK that 28% of drivers don’t carry any of the suggested emergency kit in poor conditions and 45% don’t check their vehicle before driving in poor conditions.

In the South West it was found that a quarter of motorists don’t even carry de-icer when in the most severe weather conditions.

The Highways Agency is part of a campaign to ‘Make Time for Winter’ by asking drivers to prepare themselves and their vehicles to...

A Devon based Royal Marine has been found guilty of murder after shooting dead an injured prisoner in 2011. Two other marines were acquitted at the Military Court Centre in Wiltshire. The marines known only as Marines A, B, and C due to an anonymity order placed due to fears for the safety of their family. Two further marines, known only as Marines D and E, had charges against them dropped in connection to the case. The three marines had denied murdering the unknown man while on patrol in Helmand province in 2011. Marine A was convicted at a Military court martial after the prosecution...

Vodafone has been singled out as the worst provider of 3G mobile internet in the UK by telecoms watchdog.

The watchdog, Ofcom, published tests showing the Vodafone has breached the terms of its spectrum licence by missing its legal obligation to extend its coverage of 3G to 90% of the country.

This 90% is to cover the majority of the country’s population rather than the landmass meaning remote areas are still unlikely to get good coverage.

Vodafone is the only phone network in the UK to fail this test failing behind rivals O2,EE and Three. Despite being the only UK...

The heads of the UK's spying agencies are to face an unprecedented televised grilling by MPs. The three heads of the UK’s intelligence agencies will appear together in public for the first time today. MI5 director general Andrew Parker, MI6 chief Sir John Sawers and GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban will give evidence to the Intelligence and Security Committee this afternoon at 2pm. The committee- chaired by the former foreign sectary Sir Malcolm Rifkin will ask questions to see if current laws governing intelligence gathering are adequate in the digital era. The agency heads are expected to...