UK: 20MPH SPEED LIMIT PLAN FOR EDINBURGH

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Edinburgh City Council has announced plans to introduce a 24-hour-a-day 20mph speed limit in the city centre in an effort to reduce accidents and make the city more pedestrian-friendly. Research conducted for the council has found that accidents could be reduced by 5% if the 20mph speed limit was to be introduced. The new initiative is part of an ongoing strategy by the council targeted at motorists and over the last few years Edinburgh has become increasingly closed off to cars. Despite criticism from the police that the new proposal will require extra manpower to be enforced, the council is determined to introduce the new scheme either in 2001 or by early 2002 at the very latest.

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UK: INCREASE IN TEENAGE CRIME

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UK ministers will encounter increased pressure to combat youth offending following a study released on 9 October 2000 revealing that the peak age of offending by young people declined between 1992 and 1998 by three years to 18. The decline revealed in the Home Office report was due mainly to 14% increase in criminal behaviour by 14 to 17-year old boys, compared with the 6% fall among males aged between 18 and 25. The study showed that 19% of the 4,848 young people quizzed had committed a crime in the past year. Men tended to carry out property-related offences in their early-20s and as they approached 30 took part in fraudulent activity such as tax evasion.

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