• A cash crisis has forced the Department of Transport
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to freeze over 2160 million of road repair contracts this year. The British Road Federation says that, because of the rising cost of road building, the DTp has called for a moratorium of 2100 million on local authority roads and 2,60 million on 18 motorway projects. The Channel Tunnel and the regeneration of the Docklands has recently caused severe shortages of labour and materials, ending an era of cheap road building.
• Belgian lorry driver Guy Bougard, 24, has been charged with causing the death of three people by reckless driving. Bougard was on his way back to Belgium on 31 May when he was involved in a crash in Herne Bay in which Samantha Jernmet, 19, Robert Marshall, 42, and Karen Anderson, 14, died.
• The motorway speed limit for motorists should be increased to 128km/h (80mph) or 144km/h (90mph) as the current 1121Ern/h (70mph) limit causes accidents, claims Derby North Conservative MP Greg Knight, secretary of the House of Commons Motor Club.
• The Transport and General Workers' Union says it is "on the brink of a dispute" with soft-drink manufacturer Coca-Cola, after a breakdown in talks with management in the hope of averting a strike.