GLOVE-BOX GUIDE

publication date: Sep 8, 2008

Gower beaches have been “eroded” by the tourist body designed to promote them.
Wales’s tourism promotion body Visit Wales has been forced to apologise after mistakenly placing three Gower beaches in Pembrokeshire in a guide. The Active Wales brochure claimed Gower beauty spots Langland, Rhossili and Llangennith were all in Pembrokeshire. It will now be corrected in the next issue this autumn.
 

Bentley is cutting production at its plant in Crewe by about 15% because of slowing global sales of its top-end cars.

Bentley will reduce shifts and hours worked for some of its slower-selling models. It will also discontinue the contracts of up to 50 agency workers. However, there will be no compulsory job losses.

Ninety per cent of AA members underestimate the risk teenagers in cars face compared to higher-profile threats, such as drugs, drinking and gun and knife crime, research for the AA reveals.
This is despite 80 per cent of accidental teenage deaths happening on the road. In 2006, 29 children aged 13-15 died in collisions in which they were likely to have been driven by people of their parents’ age group. This compares with 286 teenagers aged 16-19 killed mostly while being driven by their mates,” says Edmund King, the AA’s president.  in the making can be more obvious than other risks and therefore preventable by parents and friends.”