The M1 through Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is to get permanent speed cameras to enforce variable limits

The M1 through Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is to get permanent speed cameras to enforce variable limits.Temporary cameras installed for widening road works between junctions 25 and 28 have proved so effective they will stay, it has been confirmed. Once the work finishes the stretch will become a “managed motorway” with speed limits changing to suit conditions.
Police said matrix boards would display the chosen limit and these would be enforced by the cameras.

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Ch Insp Andy Charlton, of Nottinghamshire police, said: “When the project finishes, that stretch of motorway will become a managed stretch of motorway where the cameras will be used to enforce variable speed limits. “While they are there temporarily at the moment as a time distance section, in the future when the M1 [widening] is finished there will be variable speed limits, up on the matrix boards, and they will have camera support”. Between May 2008 to October 2009, 5,084 vehicles were recorded as breaking the 50 mph limit, on a stretch used by about 131,000 vehicles daily. Work began to widen the 14-mile stretch of the motorway in November 2008 and the project is due to finish this autumn – but the highways agency has said it could now be earlier.

the IAEA head Mohammed ElBaradei criticized Iran for hiding its efforts to build a uranium

The members of the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, is expected to vote Friday on a draft condemning Iran’s nuclear activities, while the Western countries suspect the country is developing nuclear weapons.The diplomats from the United States, England, France, Germany, Russia and China proposed that the draft UN resolution demanding that Iran halt uranium processing building where previously secret and asks Iran confirm that Iran has no other hidden nuclear activities.The IAEA board of commissioners consisting of 35 countries, which met in Vienna on Thursday, is expected to continue to debate and vote on the draft last Friday. If agreed, the draft will be the first act of the IAEA on Iran since 2006.Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, warned on Thursday that Iran would not cooperate with the IAEA if the resolution is approved.In a meeting Thursday, the IAEA head Mohammed ElBaradei criticized Iran for hiding its efforts to build a uranium processing near the city of Qom to early September. ElBaradei also said his investigation of allegations that Iran has tried to make nuclear weapons had reached a dead end street, because Tehran does not want to cooperate.