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THE nation's local councils will be watching carefully as Sheffield City Council puts vans through their paces to find out whether it is viable to switch to hydrogen-fuelled vehicles.
The city has joined a London borough to become the first councils to experiment with the vans, which have been adapted so their conventional engines can use the alternative fuel and reduce carbon emissions.
Both are important for Sheffield-based ITM Power, which is behind the initiative to get their hydrogen-fuelled vehicles on the road in greater numbers: Sheffield is their local patch so it's only right our council has confidence in a local business and gives its support in this way; and Camden is the gateway to the capital, the most significant municipal market of them all.
We hope the trials are a success and that this will then unlock the potential to not only cut the harmful carbon emissions from conventional fuels but will also lead to a relaxing of the stranglehold oil has on the world's economies.
Beware if it's too good to be true
PLEASE bear in mind the sound advice that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
That could have saved a South Yorkshire pensioner from being separated from 34,000 of her life savings after falling for a lottery con.
She was tricked into believing that she had won a small fortune on the Spanish/Canadian lottery and sent off huge sums of money after being fooled that she needed to pay fees before her winnings would be released.
Now detectives have broken the news to the pensioner that she fell for a pack of lies and that the same scam has been used on a number of other old folk around the country.
Please don't be caught out yourself. If you get a phone call from someone who is offering the world, just tell them where to go.
Remember, you never get anything for nothing in this world.
Lesson in behaviour
FOUR football hooligans from across South Yorkshire are today paying the price of their loutish behaviour after they were banned from attending games until 2013.
The antics for which they have been responsible bring the game into disrepute as far as right-thinking members of the public are concerned and that is a stain that football can ill afford to bear.
If the men involved are in any way genuine in their fervour for football, then the ban will hurt them far more than any other kind of penalty.
And that is a powerful message to send out to anyone else tempted to follow their example: if you don't behave, you don't get to watch your team.
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