Despite evidence that it would save lives, the Government has decided against reducing the legal limit for alcohol in a driver's blood.It was previously planning to reduce the limit from 80 to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, which would put Britain in line with Ireland and most of mainland Europe.The move was to be supported by the British Medical Association, the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Last year, Stephen Ladyman, who was then the road safety minister, said the Government would include in a public consultation the proposal to drop the limit to 50 mg.
Despite evidence that it would save lives, the Government has decided against reducing the legal limit for alcohol in a driver's blood.
It was previously planning to reduce the limit from 80 to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, which would put Britain in line with Ireland and most of mainland Europe.
The move was to be supported by the British Medical Association, the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
Last year, Stephen Ladyman, who was then the road safety minister, said the Government would include in a public consultation the proposal to drop the limit to 50 mg.
A quick check in Wikipedia shows that there are other countries where motorists can drink and drive. These include Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Congo, and Ethiopia, as well as countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia that don't bother with specific drunk driving laws.
For this Telegraph story, for example, the html page title is:
<title>Britain only country where motorists can drink and drive - Telegraph</title>
(That's copied from the html source of the Telegraph page).
This is why, in some cases, tribext doesn't seem to return a headline at all. An example is EUObserver, that always just puts "EUObserver" in the title:
<title>EUobserver</title>
(Copied from the html source of the Iceland story above).
In these cases, as you know, we have to copy in the headline ourselves (or do without). I don't think there's any way someone could automate that task.
