Slanging match over parking charges
Romford Recorder
Debate on car parking charges descended into a slanging match at last week's council meeting, with many demanding Cllr Michael White (Cons, Squirrels Heath) be reeled in after launching into a 10-minute monologue on council initiatives.
Elektromotive and Smart Collaborate on EV Trial
The Auto Chanel
at Mercedes-Benz World in Brooklands, Surrey. “The shift towards zero emissions motoring is fast gathering pace, and it is vital that fully compatible recharging infrastructures for EVs are put in place across Europe,” said Mr. Taylor-Haw. ...
Dinky car revolution: Why more drivers are swapping their gas guzzlers for cute compacts
Independent
There's a terrible secret that the car-makers don't really want you to know about, or at least properly appreciate. You don't need a big car. Not just in the sense that you don't actually need four-wheel drive to nip down to Sainsbury's (as...
The first Indy races were stockers
ESPN.com
Fisher and his partners considered concrete, the surface of the faraway Brooklands track near London. Too expensive, they decided. They settled on bricks, and Fisher ordered 3.2 million of them installed as fast as possible. In December 190...
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PaddockTalk
Setting the fastest lap of the race on lap 12 in the sister Lacetti, Mat was nose to tail with Collard and made his move to snatch the lead into Brooklands. With his comfortable gap of 1.019s over second-placed Collard shortened to just 0.2...
PICTURES & VIDEO: Concorde simulator restored to 'flying status' at ...
Flight Global.com
If you thought that you'd missed the chance to take the controls of Concorde for a supersonic flight, think again. Thanks to the Brooklands Museum near Weybridge in Surrey, the original full flight simulator used to train British Airways pi...
Silverstone: James Nash weekend summary
Motorsport.com
With Jelley now promoted to 7th having passed Plato into Brooklands, James closed in on the Lacetti ahead and a repeat of the race two chase began. Contact between James and Plato forced the latter to run wide, but managing to correct it, P...
Bentley unveils luxury coupe, sells out of them
BusinessWeek
Almost before the fizz of the champagne settled at the Bentley Brooklands’ New York Auto Show debut, marketing director Stuart McCullough announced that the window of opportunity for owning one was quickly closing. Hitting the market on the...
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THE WEEK THAT WAS
ESPN Soccernet
The duo were allegedly caught loading £800 worth of stolen food and clothing from Tesco and Marks & Spencer into a car at the Brooklands shopping centre in Weybridge and were taken to Staines police station where they accepted a police caut...
British Prints from the Machine Age, Edited by Clifford Ackley
Independent
BBC 4's programmes on the inter-war years stressed the era's passion for speed and modernity. From an American exhibition that sadly will not be crossing the Atlantic, dynamic prints by British artists between 1914 and 1936 demonstrate the ...
New Service Enables Owners to Put 'Art' Into Their Smart
The Auto Chanel
These include the vibrant Campbell Blue, which pays homage to the iconic Bluebird land speed record cars built and tested at Brooklands, the home of Mercedes-Benz World. Interior detailing on items such as the door handles, instrument clust...
Review attacks ‘incompetent’ quango
Financial Times
Brooklands College in west London has gutted the building it expected to refurbish, putting students in temporary accommodation at a cost of almost £80,000 a month. The college has already spent £9m. Colin Staff, principal, has said the col...
