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At long last, an over-stressed Diary might get some sleep this summer! The good burghers of Kensington & Chelsea LBC have finally shifted the local council into gear and enforced a pit stop for wealthy drivers of ‘super cars' roaring around the streets of west London at 3am and depriving residents of kip.Under new council rules, the crass oligarchs – often part-time residents of the borough, at best – will no longer be able to rev their pointlessly-powerful engines, accelerate 20 yards to the next set of traffic lights at light speed, or leave their tacky, sprayed-gold and bullet-proof eyesores with the engine running while they stop by to pick up their cocktail dresses. Who says councils never do anything for the public? Well done, K&C. If Diary was as wealthy as a Russian oil baron, tickets to the next grand prix – in the safe confines of Silverstone – would be turbo-charging their way to you. Alas, Diary is skint - but will sleep better for it. The need for speed Continuing the theme of tackling pointless speed, we can only express sympathy for Chris Fawcett in his (admirably polite) battle with Wiltshire CC. Mr Fawcett was so vexed by speedsters motoring through his village of Shrewton, near Stonehenge, that he has taken to the innovative practise of installing fake speed cameras on a local road. Alas, Wiltshire officials had to inform Fawcett that he was breaking a law by installing the first model camera on council-owned land. Undeterred, Fawcett has now attached a steel-boxed fake camera on a friend's land – potentially by-passing (‘scuse the pun) council opposition. Let's hope this very British spat continues. Innovation begets innovation, after all. We await Wiltshire CC's response – ideally to the threat caused by speedsters. Now that would show that councils listen to their residents.

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INNOVATION

Shifting the council into gear

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