The UK's most dangerous road is the A537 between Macclesfield and Buxton. That's according to a report by the Road Safety Foundation (RSF), a charity affiliated with car safety group Euro NCAP.

The road is so dangerous, says the RSF, because it has 'severe bends, steep falls from the carriageway and is edged by dry-stone walls or rock face for almost all of its length'.

The report, called Saving Lives for Less, looked at 28,000 miles of UK roads. It concludes that half of all fatal ac...

New research by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) suggests that water from windscreen washer jets could be the cause of one in five cases of Legionnaires' Disease.

The illness is caught when stagnant warm water containing the Legionella bacteria is sprayed and inhaled. It can lead to pneumonia and is sometimes fatal.

It was found that those who drive for a living are five times more likely to catch Legionnaires' Disease. The HPA believes that drivers who fill the washer reservoir of...