Britain: London Gets Tougher on Gas-Guzzlers
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Drivers of 4x4s, high-powered sports cars and other high-emission vehicles will have to pay $49 a day to enter central London, triple the current charge.
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Londoners face travel problems because of strike by tube staff.
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A decision by a London borough to introduce different rates for parking permits based on vehicle fuel emissions has led a string of other areas around Britain to follow suit, AFP has learnt.
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Red Green Ken makes bid for recycled lentil votes London mayor Ken Livingstone yesterday announced a comprehensive shift in the capital's "congestion charge" road-pricing policy, reorienting the tolls much more towards green issues and away from actual congestion charging.â¦
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Britain's first on-street charging points for electric cars were unveiled in central London as part of a wider bid to encourage drivers to ditch gas-guzzling vehicles.
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Security across London has been increased after police on Friday discovered two cars filled with explosives. British officials said hundreds of people could have been killed if the devices in the cars had been set off.
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The area covered by London's congestion charge doubled to the anger of many residents and businesses, although the city's mayor insisted it would cut emissions and traffic jams.
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Luxury carmaker is threatening a legal challenge to London mayor Ken Livingstone's plans to demand a Â£25 congestion charge from drivers of high powered sports cars and 4x4s entering the capital
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POLICE are stopping and searching petrol tankers coming into London amid concerns they might be used as bombs by terrorists.   A massive "ring of steel" operation involving motorcycle officers is under way to try to block any al Qaeda strike involving hijacked lorries.
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TEHRAN -- Iranians smashed shop windows and set fire to a dozen gas stations in the capital yesterday, angered by the sudden start of a fuel rationing system that threatens to further increase the unpopularity of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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London is the latest city to get a fuel deal as part of the Venezuelan leader's '21st century socialism.'
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London&#039;s sweaty subway cars are as jam-packed as ever this summer and red double-decker buses still roll through the capital crowded with commuters and photo-snapping tourists.
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British Gas is increasing the cost of gas by 12.4% and electricity by 9.4% from 20 September, it announces.
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Business & money: Gordon Brown expresses concern over the impact of rising fuel bills
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LONDON, June 29 -- British police thwarted a pair of apparent terrorist attacks in central London's crowded theater district Friday, defusing bombs fashioned from gasoline, gas cylinders and nails and hidden inside two parked Mercedes sedans. Police said that if the explosives had detonated, they...
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The energy regulator says it will "go after" gas companies who fail to pass falling prices on to customers.
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The area covered by a toll for traffic entering London has almost doubled, angering many residents and businesses, although the city's mayor insisted it would cut emissions and traffic jams.