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Half of us don t know our local streets and couldn t give directions
Most of us admit to getting lost in our home home towns
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Brits are clueless about the area where they live and couldn t give a stranger directions to an address a couple of streets away, a study shows. In fact, the research, commissioned by micro-mobility company Dott, found that we’re so bad at local discovery that almost half (45%) of Brits surveyed don’t know the names of streets near their home and a quarter admitted to not being able to direct a stranger to a destination in the town where they live.
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One of the three companies launching rental e-scooters on London s roads tomorrow has already set its sights on expansion across the UK.
Dutch firm Dott – which runs schemes in Paris, Milan and Rome – will target Bristol and the West Midlands.
Dott, along with fellow specialists Lime and Tier, will be supplying 250 e-scooters in seven areas across London – including Richmond and Canary Wharf.
On trial: Dott, along with fellow specialists Lime and Tier, will be supplying 250 e-scooters in seven areas across London – including Richmond and Canary Wharf
Plans for the year-long trial have triggered safety fears among pedestrians as well as concerns for the riders themselves.
Boris Johnson s Conservatives are giving him the benefit of the doubt after his former chief adviser declared he was unfit to lead the country out of the pandemic. But ministers fear the British premier will face a bigger battle with his party if the coronavirus variant first detected in India derails his plan to lift restrictions next month.
Officials are now intensely studying data on the new strain, which they estimate has seeded across most of the country and accounts for as many as three-quarters of all new infections. It also looks more transmissible than the previously dominant one that took hold late last year and led to another lockdown. Cases of the new variant have been doubling each week and more people are requiring hospital treatment.