A picture of Britain as a car reliant nation is painted today in new research which shows 80 per cent of people in households where car use is the norm. The biggest recent growth in car ownership has been amongst the poor and older people. The findings come in ‘The Car in British Society’, published today by the Royal Automobile Club Foundation.

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The Local Government Association says it will work with councils to ensure that surveillance powers are used properly. The LGA said that all public bodies needed to re-build public confidence by showing that the powers were used to help bring serious criminals to justice and not for trivial reasons.

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This report of the 2009 survey of local authority websites by the Society of IT Management reveals that 73 per cent of adults in the UK now have access to the internet, compared to 66 per cent last year. In some regions access is as high as 81 per cent.

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