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Councils make £594m from parking

RECORD SURPLUSES from parking revenues have been achieved by councils, according to the RAC Foundation. In 2012/13 councils in England generated a combined "profit" of £594 million from their on and off-street parking operations, the foundation said. This was a 5% increase on the figure of £565 million for 2011/12, and just 52 of the 353 parking authorities in England reported a deficit in 2012/13.

Bahrain Grand Prix (2014): RESULT

The 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix gets underway The expectation – barring incidents, accidents or mechanical failure, was that the Mercedes due of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg would be in a race of their won at the front of the pack in the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix. And they were – and what a race! Rosberg may have been on pole, but Hamilton took the lead at the first corner, and battle commenced.

Volvo V40 (2012) first official pictures

This is the all-new Volvo V40, the Swedish car company’s latest rival to the Ford Focus, VW Golf et al. It will be officially unveiled at the 2012 Geneva motor show next month. Volvo is being particularly bullish about the prospects of its new V40, with Volvo president and CEO Stefan Jacoby claiming the new model ‘will give our toughest competitors a headache’.