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BBC News
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Newbury MP calls for new A34 slip road safety signs
An MP is calling for new safety signs to be put on the slip roads leading from two villages on to one of the South's busiest A roads. Lee Dillon said such signs would make the roads near East Ilsley and Beedon easier to navigate while more expensive, long-term solutions were drawn pleased that some stretches of the A34 have recently been resurfaced, the Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury said he is hoping to get a bill through Parliament to make the roads Highways, which is responsible for the road, said it takes safety very seriously. It said it expected work to make improvements on the A34 southbound, East Ilsley, which started last month, will finish on sections of safety barrier on the southbound verge area are also being upgraded, and a new section will be installed in the gap to join the existing sections together. The Newbury MP made his comments as part of a wide-ranging interview with BBC Radio Berkshire breakfast presenter Phil Mercer. He said one of the hot topics he was dealing with locally is the trialing of a longer no-go zone for vehicles wanting to drive through the town centre at Berkshire Council has banned cars from going through the town centre between 10:00 and 23:00. Previously the roads were only closed until 18: this is only a trial, Dillon said he thinks making the town centre car free for longer will make Newbury a more attractive place at he said it was ultimately for local people to decide whether the trial should become permanent or not. Dillon also talked of his frustration that the hospital where he was born world in 1983 will not be rebuilt until 2037 at the very hospital, on Craven Road in Reading, was set to be replaced under the last government's new hospitals this has been delayed as the current government says the previous plan was not affordable. A year on from being voted in, Lee Dillon, like all MPs, has a lot on his plate. An avid football fan and Friday night player himself, he says the game gives him an escape from the pressures of the he says it's important that MPs of all parties work together wherever possible to improve the country's fortunes there's at least one politician and fellow football fan he might struggle to find common ground with. For while the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is a renowned Arsenal supporter, Newbury's Dillon is a life-long Manchester United fan.
BBC News
02-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Newbury MP calls for better road safety for horses
An MP moved by the death of a two-year-old racehorse has called for improved equestrian road Dem Lee Dillon, who represents Newbury in Berkshire, has raised his concerns in an early day motion tabled in comes after he took part in a road safety awareness ride in Lambourn in memory of Knockalla, which was killed after being hit by a car in Dillon said he "was inspired by the passion and determination of those who took part" and wanted to "turn awareness into action". "It was a powerful display of community action and shared purpose," he Dillon's early day motion highlighted the importance of national guidance, better signage and greater awareness among Monday 30 September, two-year-old Knockalla was being ridden in Lambourn when the horse was frightened by a animal moved out into the middle of the road as a result and was hit, suffering a leg fracture so severe it needed to be euthanised. Figures by the British Horse Society found 3,118 road incidents involving horses were logged in 2024. Of those, 58 horses died and 97 were found riders were victims of road rage and abuse and in some instances drivers drove past either too close to the horses or too fast. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
