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  • NewsAOL

    Video: Witness the Thanksgiving "bumper-to-bumper" traffic nightmare

    Today, our American cousins will enjoy a hearty meal of turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pies but yesterday many had to endure an entrée of petrol fumes, honking horns and irate motorists, as the great Thanksgiving getaway got off

  • LifestyleAOL

    Revealed: the supermarkets with the fastest queues

    Are you always in the slowest supermarket queue? Do you dash around the store, only to end up stuck behind five people who are moving at a glacial pace? And is this all because of the supermarket you shop in? A new study by The Grocer magazine

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  • NewsAOL

    Why your supermarket checkout queue always moves slowest

    The real reason why our supermarket checkout queue always seems to be the slowest has been revealed by a new book - and the answer is surprisingly easy. When our queue moves fast, we think about getting our shopping out of the trolley, and

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  • LifestyleAOL

    ​Caravans top British summer driving hates

    Being stuck in a queue of traffic behind a caravan and burning hot leather seats are some of the most annoying things drivers experience behind the wheel in summer, claims a new survey. The people at HPI have surveyed the nation to find our top

  • LifestyleAOL

    Driver dies as lorry topples over and bursts into flames on M25

    One of the busiest stretches of motorway in the UK was brought to a standstill yesterday when a lorry toppled over and burst into

  • NewsAOL

    Traffic jams costing economy £4.3bn a year

    PA Traffic jams on UK roads are costing the economy more than £4.3bn a year, according to a survey. The cost of the jams is equivalent to £491 per car-commuting household, while more than £426m is wasted on fuel alone a year, a survey by the

  • BusinessAOL

    Heathrow pays £500,000 penalty over misleading queuing times

    Heathrow's Terminal 5 - PA Heathrow Airport has been forced to pay a £500,000 penalty to airlines over passenger queuing times at security that were longer than reported. Both Heathrow and Gatwick have agreed to tighten up their queue

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