it sounds sensible in theory, it sjust practise. whether drivers carry- on doing what they used to, whether pedestrians, cyclists get a false i sense of security now. |it s a question of getting peoplej to change their habits and think. there will be an awareness campaign about the highway code changes, but critics they is too late and not enough people know what is going to be different. danny savage, bbc news, york. a british woman with incurable cancer and her two team mates have broken the world record for rowing across the atlantic. kat cordiner, abbyjohnston and charlotte irving tookjust1i2 days to complete the 3,000 mile trip, knocking seven days off the previous record. they ve raised over £50,000 for cancer charities. a plaque has been unveiled today to honour the first british woman to swim the channel. mercedes gleitze made the crossing in 1927 and became a major celebrity in the years after for her multiple endurance swimming achievements. but then she slipped into obscuri