Self-driving car trial
AUTONOMOUS vehicle trials serving London and Edinburgh have received a funding boost as the Government ramps up its self-driving ambitions.
An autonomous bus pilot in Edinburgh, known as Project CAV Forth, will receive £4.35 million.
In London, Project Apollo will put £8.84 million towards the development of autonomous taxis, building on its existing tests in Greenwich.
A second pilot in the capital, ServCity takes £11.15 million, as it develops a mobility service. A FORMER soldier who built DIY defences to protect his clifftop home from falling into the sea has been ordered to stop by a local council.
Lance Martin, 60, lives in Hemsby, Norfolk, where around 30 metres of cliff were lost to the tides after March’s Beast from the East.
There were 13 homes in his row, and his is the last one left. Fearing forecast high tides and winds could eat further into the dunes, he took matters into his own hands this month without seeking permission.
“I was a naughty boy,” he said. “I went and hired a digger and moved concrete blocks on the beach.”
The 50 blocks, weighing up to four tonnes each, were left over from previous defences on the beach – away from cliffs.
But Great Yarmouth Borough Council issued him with a stop notice last week as “such engineering works cannot be undertaken without consent”.