News in brief
publication date: Jun 22, 2009
General Motors Corp. and Magna International Inc. have given themselves four more weeks to agree on the details of a deal to sell controlling interest in GM's Opel/Vauxhall business to Magna and Russia's Sberbank.
If the two sides cannot finalize a sales agreement by then, GM presumably would reopen bidding. Fiat, Beijing Automotive Industry Corp. and Ripplewood Holdings all have indicated they would be interested in Opel should the Magna bid fail. Fiat has also said it would be interested if circumstances were right.
Labour is still failing to live up to its promise to make Britain's roads ‘the safest in the world', according to a report by the Institute of Advanced Motorists.
It found the risk to drivers in their teens and 20s of killing or being killed on the roads had not changed since the early 1980s - despite a significant fall in other age groups.
An updated police driver training manual includes advice on eco-driving and new modules for pursuit training.
Issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS), the manual provides police force driving schools with a framework allowing them to develop a course based on the National Police Driving Standards.