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The UK has the most congested roads in Europe (Flickr/jonbgem)

Food firms best at navigating Europe’s busiest roads

By Matt Atherton

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has urged all UK logistics operators to follow the food and drink industry’s example in using real-time traffic information to avoid delays, after it was revealed the UK had the most congested roads in Europe.

The overturned lorry in Nottinghamshire on December 17 Photo: @TRPTNorth

Asda lorry crash spills booze

By Alice Foster

An Asda lorry crashed into a traffic light and overturned, strewing boxes of alcoholic and soft drinks across the road yesterday morning.

18M people (and lots of turkeys) are expected to take to the nation's roads today

Beware Christmas jams – on the road

By Michael Stones

Traffic jams nationwide could frustrate Christmas deliveries today – the busiest getaway day of the festive season, with more than 14M people taking to the roads, warns the Freight Transport Association (FTA).