Interactive Driving Systems has issued a few simple tips to help drivers make their journeys as safe as possible during the cold weather.

1. Check your vehicle:
   • Has been maintained/serviced and you have a good battery. Your battery has to work much harder in the winter (working lights and wipers, for example) and can fail completely with hardly any warning.
   • Tyres have a good tread depth and are inflated correctly (including the spare.
   • Cooling system contains antifreeze at the correct strength.
   • Windscreen wipers and washers are working properly – in cold temperatures use high strength screen-wash.
   • Lights are clean and working.
2. Check the weather conditions:
   • Look at local and national TV and Radio for travel and weather information.
   • See that all your vehicle windows, mirrors and lights are clear from mist, frost and snow. Snow and ice reduce what you can see, and can be dangerous to other road users as it falls off your vehicle.

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Bosses’ salaries should be linked to those of lowest-paid staff, says Hutton

There is a “strong case” in the public sector for a maximum pay multiple between the top staff in an organisation and those at the bottom,  Will Hutton’s interim report into fair play has concluded.

In publishing his first review into whether public organisations should cap remuneration for senior executives at 20 times that of their lowest paid staff, Hutton said the pay of the top 1 per cent of earners in the UK was escalating disproportionately and “outstripping the rest”.

Hutton also spoke of the “ratchet effect”, where the rise in top private-sector pay was putting upward pressure on senior public-sector salaries “to compete in the labour market for CEOs”.

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