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Welcome to bbc news. Utility companies could be charged by the hour for digging up busy roads when they work on improving their infrastructure. Ministers hope the policy would force contractors in england to speed up repairs, or carry out work at night to reduce traffic delays caused by their projects. Roadworks cost the economy £4 billion a year due to due to delayed deliveries and people being unable to get to work on time. The proposals follow successful trials in london and kent, which saw severe congestion fall by more than 50 . The charges, which could be up to £2,500 an hour, aim to e...

Perspective of some the major events in history in witness at 2 30. That includes the partition of india in 1947. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The metropolitan police has confirmed it has paid compensation to the former chief of the Defence Staff field marshal lord bramall, and the family of the late home secretary lord brittan, who were both falsely accused of child sexual abuse. Both men were named a by an informant known as nick whos now being investigated for allegedly perverting the course of justice. Angus crawford reports. They were horrifying allegations, of a paedophile rin...

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With Russia off-limits and a new 2,500-mile ‘no-fly zone’ across Africa, global airspace hasn’t been this restricted since the Cold War