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The new Fiat Panda City Cross brings two-wheel-drive and urban crossover looks.

Latest Fiat Panda brings Cross styling with two-wheel drive

A new version of Fiat’s Panda city car is now available, bringing two-wheel drive and urban crossover styling along with reduced pricing.

Providing an alternative to the range-topping Panda Cross 4×4, the City Cross carries over styling features, including 15-inch alloys and body cladding, but is only available with two-wheel drive and one engine option – a 68bhp 1.2-litre petrol engine with official CO2 emissions of 129g/km and 51.4mpg combined mpg.

The Panda City Cross is available to order now, priced from £12,995.

The LRSC warns the UK’s reputation for being a world leader in reducing road casualties is “slipping away”.

Cuts in road safety education could lead to more deaths on the roads 

A continued decline in funding for road safety education could impact on the rate of road casualty reductions.

So says the London Road Safety Council (LRSC) as it warns that road safety officers have been cut by two-thirds since 2010

The LRSC points to statistics showing the downward trend in fatalities achieved from 2005 to 2010 is bottoming out, and says it fears the UK’s reputation as a world leader in road casualty reduction is slipping away through a lack of investment in road safety.

The organisation is calling for ministers to prescibe the ratios of staff to population and suggests one full-time road safety officer for every 100,000 people.

Ebbon-Dacs’ implementations and product manager, Michael Terry says further changes are planned for moDel-VM.

Ebbon-Dacs enhances moDel and moDel-VM 

Ebbon-Dacs‘ moDel and moDel-VM electronic vehicle delivery and collection solutions have gained new mobile phone and van capabilities.

The tools can now be used on all Android smart phones with screens of five inches or bigger while Ebbon-Dacs has further extended the functionality by adding a schematic of a generic van to the flat screen capability that allows users to record and notify areas of damage on vans as well as cars on both solutions, helping speed up the collection and delivery process.

Ebbon-Dacs’ implementations and product manager, Michael Terry added: “Along with the mobile phone and vans capability, we are about to launch a number of new features within model-VM which we believe make it still more attractive and user-friendly.”

Trakm8 was named as the 22nd best-performing UK public technology company in Megabuyte’s Quoted25 Awards.

Trakm8 listed in Megabuyte’s Quoted25 Awards

Independent technology sector research provider Megabuyte has rated Trakm8 as the 22nd best-performing UK public technology company at its inaugural awards ceremony.

Heled in London, the event saw Trakm8 named in Megabuyte’s Quoted25 Awards, which recognise the UK’s best-performing public technology companies as ranked by their Megabuyte Scorecard rating, a propriety methodology that evaluates seven key financial KPIs unrelated to share price.