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The fires have created many air pollution problems for the UK. [3] The causes of most of the fires have been attributed to much higher than average temperatures and drought conditions that have prevailed since the spring of 2018. [4] [5] There were 137 wildfires larger than 25 hectares (250,000 m 2) recorded in the United Kingdom in 2019. [6]
UK speed limits apply only to motor vehicles and are shown in mph. [20] With a few exceptions, they are in multiples of 10, ranging from 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) to 70 miles per hour (113 km/h). Unless a lower speed limit is posted on a road, the national speed limit applies, which varies between class of vehicles and the type of road.
Road speed limits in the United Kingdom are used to define the maximum legal speed (which may be variable) for vehicles using public roads in the UK. Speed limits are one of the measures available to attempt to control traffic speeds, reduce negative environmental effects of traffic, increase fuel use efficiency and satisfy local community wishes.
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British roads are limited for most vehicles by the National Speed Limit.Road signs in the UK use imperial units, so speed limits are posted in miles per hour.Speed limits are the maximum speed at which certain drivers may legally drive on a road rather than a defined appropriate speed, and in some cases the nature of a road may dictate that one should drive significantly more slowly than the ...
Highway Act 1835 s 72 (as amended by Local Government Act 1888 s 85(1)) prohibits cycling on footways (pavement beside carriageway). The fixed penalty is £30 under the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 s 51 and Sch 3.
Fires are continuing to ravage through houses and buildings across the UK after temperatures topped 40C in the UK for the first time ever. A new record for the hottest day ever seen, of 40.3C, was ...
[6] [34] [35] By the end of the day, five separate fires in the pass had rapidly grown to cover an area of over 1 square mile (640 acres) in total, [6] with firefighters struggling to reach the fire due to extremely high temperatures; elsewhere in Northern Ireland, temperatures reached 29.6 °C on 27 June, marking the hottest June day in the ...