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Guidelines urging journalists to avoid the use of the word “accident” when reporting on road collisions and refer to drivers rather than cars have been launched to change public attitudes with sensitive reporting.
The guidelines, put together by journalist Laura Laker with the University of Westminster’s Active Travel Academy, have been finalised following a consultation on a draft version last year. They hope to create a new industry standard similar to the work done by Samaritans on suicide reporting.
The Active Travel Academy described reporting of road safety issues and collisions as a “challenge and a dilemma” for journalists: “Death and injury on the road is not new but still matters.”
“It’s our Brexit”: Will low traffic neighbourhoods affect the local election results? As Covid-19 restrictions ease and amid talk of a vaccine bounce, road closures across the country could also be driving voters. The Manchester inner-city suburb of Levenshulme is on a journey. Its house prices have increased over 50 per cent in the past five years, the disused railway station is turning into a cycle café and co-working space, and the
Sunday Times deemed it one of the “best places to live” in 2019 – the same year an off-licence sitting vacant for two years on a street corner tranformed into a vegetarian deli and natural wine seller.
Senior transport planners and climate experts have urged transport secretary Grant Shapps and London Mayor Sadiq Khan to put an immediate stop to work on the Silvertown Tunnel to re-evaluate the scheme’s environmental impact.
In a letter to Shapps and Khan, the group of 52 academics and campaigners have called for an “emergency review” to be carried out to determine if the East London project is in line with the UK’s climate change objectives. (See below for full list of signatories.)
The group of objectors cite the government’s recent decision to intervene in the Cumbria coal mine planning row – as well as the upcoming COP26 conference – as grounds for carrying out an inquiry into the Silvertown Tunnel scheme.
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