Pull The Lead Out

Petrol-driven vehicles in Europe discharge some 25,000 tons of lead into the atmosphere during the course of a year. This, environmentalists, please note, does not present us......

News Flash

And by the way, here's a point for urban transport planners to note. Where traffic lights have been installed in urban areas there has usually been a sharp rise in pollution. So......

Quiet Flows The Don

Lord Bullock, a Don of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and biographer of the late and great Ernie Bevin, will by now be reflecting on the first effects of his voluminous......

Do Or Die

BRS lorry drivers are good men to have around in an emergency, to judge by the the problem themselves. The questioner on this occasion was aviator Sheila Scott, so the......

Eastern Promise

Russia, too, I read, has pollution problems, even in Siberia. I don't know whether they're too worried about it, but I do have some information about the development of road......