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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have called on the Scottish government to detail how it will reduce car travel by 20 per cent as Car Free Day is marked today.
The annual event, with events across Scotland, highlights how communities could be improved with fewer vehicles on the road.
Gavin Thomson, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “Transport is Scotland’s biggest source of climate emissions, it’s creating dangerous levels of air pollution and it’s costing people far too much money.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street