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TWO classic car enthusiasts have died
after their 1922 Model T Ford crashed into
an ambulance.
Both men were pronounced dead at the
scene on the A49 in Peterstow, Hereford-
shire, on Sunday morning.
The ambulance was not responding to a
999 call before the crash – which also left
two paramedics with minor injuries.
Floral tributes were left at the scene,
including one card that read: ‘I will never
forget all the memories we all had, you
taught me to live life to the full.’
A friend of one of the men said: ‘I don’t
know exactly what happened and don’t
want to say any more other than I’m
devastated.’ Dan Poucher, of West Mercia
Police, said an inquiry had been launched
and urged witnesses to come forward.Bank of Mum and
Dad cash crisis
PARENTS are facing an uncertain retire-
ment because they are too generous
with their children, a survey found.
Young people’s dependence on the
Bank of Mum and Dad means a quarter
of parents and grandparents are not
confident they have enough to last them
in retirement, while one in five over-55s
have dipped into savings to help their
children out, Legal and General found.
One in eight have had to accept a lower
standard of living as a result of gifting
money, while 6 per cent said they have
had to postpone their retirement.Model T Ford
BRITAIN will double the crash kills two
amount of money it spends on
cutting carbon emissions in the
developing world over the next
four years after crunch talks at
the G7 summit.
A total of £1.44billion from the aid
budget and the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy will be spent on tackling
climate change, including wildfires.
This is up from the UK’s Green Cli-
mate Fund (GCF) contribution of
£720million between 2014 and 2019, it
was announced yesterday.
It came as the G7 agreed to spend
£18million on the Amazon, mainly to
send fire-fighting planes to tackle the
huge blazes engulfing the world’s big-
gest rainforest.
The club also agreed to support a
By Larisa Brown
Political Correspondent
medium-term reforestation plan
which will be unveiled at the UN
in September, France and Chile
announced.
US President Donald Trump,
who has described climate
change as a hoax, skipped meet-
ings on the subject at the G
summit in Biarritz.
Carrie Symonds, the girlfriend
of Prime Minister Boris John-
son, said she felt ‘real pain’ look-
ing at images of the fire in the
Amazon rainforest last week.
The GCF fund supports projects
to protect and preserve natural
habitats in the developing world,
including in the Amazon – where
fires continue to rage.
It also helps projects that
reduce emissions and help
people adapt to the impacts of
climate change.
The UK is doubling support to
help developing countries reduce
their greenhouse gas emissions
as part of efforts to help meet
the global targets set in Paris.requires a global solution. Dou-
bling the UK’s contribution to
the world’s largest fund dedi-
cated to tackling climate change
will enable more investment in
prevention and preparedness,
and lever further private sector
finance so we can achieve our
climate change goals.’
Speaking at the summit, Mr
Johnson said the UK would see
‘a very active environmentalist
administration, protecting hab-
itat, protecting bio diversity but
reducing CO2 and reducing cli-
mate change emissions from
technological progress’.
Business and Energy Secre-
tary Andrea Leadsom said: ‘I
am delighted that the UK isleading the world in a fight
against climate change.’
It is estimated that GCF
projects will help 300million peo-
ple cope with the effects of cli-
mate change and take the equiv-
alent of 1.5billion tons of carbon
dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Brazil will have to agree to any
reforestation plan after yester-
day’s announcement at the G7.
French president Emmanuel
Macron had made the issue one
of the summit’s priorities.
He threatened to block a trade
deal between the EU and Latin
America unless Brazilian presi-
dent Jair Bolsonaro, a climate
change sceptic, takes serious
steps to protect the Amazon.‘Investment in
preparedness’
Break out:
007 steals the
buggy from
the Nevada
space centreDiamonds Are
Forever moon
rover set to
fetch £500k
‘Next time we go to Tesco I’m
taking the Ford Fiesta’
Crater escape: Connery drives the buggy in the movieIT may not have the speed or Mail Foreign Service
the sleek lines of an Aston
Martin, but this little rover has
its own unique charm – and a
£500,000 price tag.
James Bond’s moon buggy,
driven by Sean Connery in Dia-
monds Are Forever, is going up for
sale at a huge auction of Hollywood
memorabilia next month.
The iconic vehicle, which carries
Bond from Willard Whyte’s space
centre in a chase across the
Nevada desert, is 13.5ft long, with
a steel frame, aluminium panelling
and a perspex dome.
And though it might be lacking
an ejector seat, it does at least
boast two robot arms and a satel-lite dish. The buggy, which has
sadly never been on the moon – in
the 1971 film or otherwise – fell
into disrepair, but was restored to
its former glory in the 1990s.
It is now being sold by a private
collector at a US auction on Sep-
tember 25 and 26, alongside a
space shuttle model from 1979’s
Moonraker, set to fetch £25,000.
Other 007 props on offer include
four (fake) gold bars from Goldfin-
ger, estimated at £2,000, a tiny
missile launched from a cigarette
in You Only Live Twice, at £4,000,
and Pierce Brosnan’s exploding
pen in Goldeneye, at £2,000.UK’s £1.44bn
aid bill to make
world gr eener
BOND BUGGY AT SPY-HIGH PRICE
International Development
Secretary Alok Sharma said:
‘The World Bank estimates
100million people are at risk of
being pushed into poverty by
2030 if action isn’t taken to tackle
climate change.
‘This is a global problem that