Tech and Auto
Driver condemned for ‘mindless parking’ in front of fire station doors
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service was unable to send out one of its appliances to a road crash because it was blocked by the parked car.
Govt ‘spent nearly £200,000 lining motorway with cones to prepare for no-deal Brexit queues – then removed them the next day’
Workers placed 7,500 cones along the M20 in Kent to create a contraflow system to deal with the lorry backlog expected if Britain crashed out of the EU without a deal
Cops pull over lorry driver with windscreen covered in flags and banners
Cheshire Police stopped the HGV in Sandbach, Cheshire, before tweeting pictures of the cluttered cab
Line caught – Man caught trying to import £10 million of cocaine into UK hidden in van carrying frozen fish
James Satterley was stopped by the Border Force officers as he drove off the ferry at Newhaven Port in East Sussex, early on Saturday morning
Lorry featuring slogan ‘in the quiet lane’ stuck in narrow village road – for two days
The truck is stuck in Rock Street in the small village of Croscombe near Shepton Mallet, Somerset
AI making impressive inroads in legal sector
Last year, investment in legal tech topped $1 billion for the first time, and this year has already soared past 2018’s figures with more than $1.2 billion invested to date.
Man drives tractor at fastest speed ever – more than 135mph
Fearless Guy drove the specially-designed JCB tractor at breakneck speeds, smashing the previous record, that he set earlier this year, by more than 30mph.
Councils’ annual parking surplus hits £930m
The total represents a 7% increase compared with the previous 12 months, research commissioned by the RAC Foundation found.
Crooks caught red-handed moving cannabis plants after illegal drug factory floods
Cops pulled over a van crammed with soggy cannabis plants while in patrol in Nottingham