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Newcastle Clean Air Zone

Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Upgrade cash rules to change after drivers struggle to get grants
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Some small businesses and taxi drivers have complained that they have been unable to get help in upgrading their vehicles to cleaner models that aren't affected by the anti-pollution tolls
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Tory mayoral candidate wants to scrap Newcastle Clean Air Zone tolls – but councils insist he can't
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Guy Renner-Thompson says he would seek to abolish the anti-pollution tolls if elected next May, but the councils in charge of the scheme say he would not have the power to
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More than £13m of Newcastle Clean Air Zone's vehicle upgrade money still unspent after a year
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Latest figures from Newcastle City Council confirm that less than 500 grants have been paid out since November last year, from a £15m pot to help drivers buy cleaner vehicles
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Van driver warns motorists to beware of online Newcastle Clean Air Zone payment scams
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Jeff Pickthall fears that drivers could be fooled by a dodgy website which asks for a £14 toll payment even for cars that are exempt from tolls
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Have your say on whether charities should be exempt from Clean Air Zone charges in Newcastle City Centre
Newcastle Clean Air Zone
The city centre Clean Air Zone charge vehicles a daily fee to help bring down emissions across the heart of Newcastle.
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Newcastle food bank pleads for council U-turn after being denied exemption from Clean Air Zone tolls
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The Kenton Food Bank racked up a heavy bill from 32 fines for driving in the Clean Air Zone, believing they would be eligible to have them waived
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Motorists warned against paying Newcastle Clean Air Zone charges on unofficial websites
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Council bosses have urged people not to use unofficial websites to pay Clean Air Zone charges after motorists were issued with Penalty Charge Notices or paying when they don't need to
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People's Kitchen goes electric after ditching old van to avoid £12.50 per day Clean Air Zone tolls
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The city centre-based charity has swapped out its old 2016 van because it would have fallen foul of Newcastle's new rules on high-polluting vehicles
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Business owner calls for change in Newcastle Clean Air Zone toll after being charged twice in one night
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Nigel Kirkup says that the midnight cut-off point for the charges has a disproportionate impact on businesses working in the city centre's nightlife
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Daily £12.50 tolls for high-polluting vans start on Monday
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In the first change to the Clean Air Zone's charges since it launched, non-compliant vans and LGVs now face daily fees to come into Newcastle city centre
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Van drivers urged to prepare for tolls as report reveals grant funding latest
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Latest figures show that no van drivers have yet been successful in getting funding to upgrade to newer, cleaner vehicles that will avoid the city's anti-pollution tolls
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone text scam warning after drivers get hoax message asking for toll payment
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Council bosses have urged people to be vigilant after reports of a scam text message requesting a £3 payment
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Accusation of 'secret plan' to put new toll on car drivers branded 'scaremongering'
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A Labour transport chief insisted on Wednesday that private cars "are not in the CAZ and they will not be in the CAZ", accusing opposition parties of "scaremongering"
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Coach firm's anger over 'crazy' restrictions on vehicle upgrade grants
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Phoenix Coaches provides home to school transport for special needs children in Newcastle, but cannot get financial help to upgrade its high-polluting minibuses
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone July date confirmed for start of £12.50 daily tolls for vans
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The next phase of the Clean Air Zone will see vans and LGVs charged to enter Newcastle city centre if they do not comply with national emissions standards
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Only 52 vehicle upgrade grants issued through Newcastle Clean Air Zone — despite almost 3,000 applications
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Five months after applications for funding to help purchase less-polluting vehicles that will not be subject to the city's new road tolls, only 52 drivers have been successful
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: More than 1,600 drivers fined in first month for not paying city centre pollution toll
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The Clean Air Zone raked in more than £50,000 of income in its first month from toll payments and penalty charge notices issued to drivers of high-polluting vehicles
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'We are getting no help at all': South Tyneside taxi drivers' anger over Newcastle Clean Air Zone
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Taxi drivers outside of Newcastle, Gateshead, and North Tyneside are not eligible for support to help with the cost of Clean Air Zone tolls or to upgrade to cleaner vehicles
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Leaders from across the North to gather in Newcastle at Transport for the North conference in March
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The annual conference will be held at the Crown Plaza on March 8
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'Cowardly' and 'repugnant' – Fury at spate of Nazi symbol graffiti across Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
Swastikas have been seen this week in the city centre, opposite the Freeman Hospital, and next to the A1
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Outrage as Nazi swastika symbol sprayed in graffiti attacking Newcastle Clean Air Zone tolls
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The offensive graffiti was spotted on Wednesday on one of the main routes into Newcastle city centre, two days after the launch of the Clean Air Zone
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Full list of local and national exemptions and how to apply
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While some vehicles can face a charge of up to £50 a day, not all motorists will have to pay the pollution toll
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Map of Newcastle Clean Air Zone as it comes into effect
Newcastle Clean Air Zone
The Clean Air Zone began this week, charging high-polluting vehicles to enter into Newcastle
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Tyneside reacts as city centre pollution tolls finally come into force
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The worst-polluting buses, coaches, taxis, and HGVs are now subject to daily tolls of up to £50 to drive into or through Newcastle city centre
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