BBC News, on UK Politics, 12 November 2026
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Read the original article on bbc.com (opens in a new tab)BBC News reports that Ripley villagers and a parish councillor want average speed cameras instead of the speed cushions National Highways plans for their High Street. It gives the responses of National Highways and Surrey County Council and attributes the word 'downgraded' to the councillor who used it. Nothing in it misleads.
“had been "downgraded to speed cushions"”
The headline's word 'downgraded' is kept in quotation marks and traced in the body to the councillor who said it, so the reader knows it is his description, not the BBC's.
“The agency said it was "committed to delivering traffic calming measures"”
The BBC gives National Highways its own response to the villagers' complaint, and in S12 it gives Surrey County Council's account of why the legal agreement is not yet finalised.
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