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A new £13 million multi-storey car park at Bristol Parkway railway station has officially opened, providing a much-need extra 710 parking spaces for commuters, a recent news report in the local media reveals.

Permanent access restriction systems in the form of bollards are to be installed under the bridge on Fornham Road in Bury St Edmunds in order to prevent cars from parking on the pavement in the area, a recent news report in the local media was able to reveal.

One of ScotRail’s most important stations has been equipped with new automatic gates designed to streamline access to the premises while also bolstering security, a local news report suggests.

A local council was forced to carry out an emergency review of the level of security at all of its car parks amid rumours that 2,000 travellers are due to arrive in the area for a wedding.

A Wales town centre is set to undergo a major redevelopment operation, which would include the construction of a new, large-size multi-storey car park, a news report in the local business media was able to reveal.

Bollards were installed outside a primary school in Staffordshire in a bid to stop parents from pulling up and parking directly outside its entrance, a news report in the local media was able to reveal.

Refurbishment work on the the train station in the seaside town of Llandudno has recently been completed, with the venue now officially opened.

Hospitals across Oxfordshire have managed to cash in on the use of their car parks, revenues reaching £3.5m in 2013/14, 20 percent more than the previous year.

A group of 50 concerned residents have signed a petition asking to have bollards installed on their street in Bradford to stop drivers using it as a race track.

New security fencing is to be put up at an anti-social behaviour hotspot on the Glenvarna estate in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.

An online petition asking for safety barriers to be installed at Newcastle’s Midway car park has already been signed by more than 120 people, who expressed their concerns following a number of recent incidents where people have died or been seriously injured after falling from the car park.

The headmaster of a grammar school in Lightcliffe, Yorkshire, is asking local authorities to put traffic calming measures in place around the school in order to make the approach safer for pupils, parents and staff, a news report in the local media was able to reveal.