Government plans road crash investigation branch amid fears over electric and automated vehicles

A petition calling for broadcaster Jeremy Vine to be sacked from the BBC after he claimed a cyclist had been ‘close-passed’ by an HGV on a busy London street has sailed past 10,000 signatures.

The Unite union has added its support to the review of the Driver CPC announced by the government this week and said employers should be made to pay for the training.

Pallet network hauliers need to urgently campaign for pallet weight guidance to protect their staff from harm and themselves from prosecution, Rase Distribution chairman Geoff Hill warned this week.