New powers have allowed Labour-run Wandsworth Council to trial £130 speeding fines – much like parking infringements, no points are applied to the miscreant’s licence – if successful they will become permanent and other boroughs are likely to follow suit. Councils can keep the imposed ‘fine’ making it another cash cow and in effect de-criminalising speeding

Radio 4 Drama: Fare – Why is it that the BBC, with all its money and employees with first-class educations, conflate a cab with private hire? Take the aforementioned afternoon drama. When it plays on BBC Sounds an image appears of a London cab’s hire light even though the excellent drama by first-time writer Tony Schumacher is about a private hire driver in the North-East.