内容摘要："Cornish and Lowry had a beautiful way of capturing everyday scenes associated with the north, but our exhibition will also showcase a different side of the region that is perhaps unexpected, which we hope visitors will really enjoy."

"Cornish and Lowry had a beautiful way of capturing everyday scenes associated with the north, but our exhibition will also showcase a different side of the region that is perhaps unexpected, which we hope visitors will really enjoy."

The transport secretary said the new measures would help reduce average waiting times to no more than seven weeks by summer 2026.It means the government is set to miss its original target for waiting times by up eight months.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) had planned on cutting waiting times to seven weeks by the end of this year. It has blamed an "increase in demand and a change in customers' booking behaviour" for the backlog.In order to tackle the delays, Alexander revealed plans to double training capacity so more driving examiners would be available.She said she was also asking those in other DVSA roles who are qualified, but not longer examine, to temporarily "return to the frontline".

She said it would also reintroduce overtime pay incentives for everyone delivering driving tests.A record 1.95 million tests were booked last year, but the government would now consult on changes to the test booking system, Alexander added.

She said there were plans to crackdown on test booking bots which she said were "exploiting learners".

Test booking bots are automated software which can act much faster than a human to rapidly book an appointment on the DVSA website.for jokes on American late night television. But its mission is no laughing matter.

“Safeguarding the president-elect is a top priority,” said Anthony Guglielmi, US Secret Service chief of communications, in a statement to the BBC.In the months leading up to the US presidential election, Trump was the target of two apparent assassination attempts. The first took place at a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and the other occurred at the Mar-a-Lago golf course in September.

Citing “concern for operational security,” the Secret Service declined to answer the BBC’s specific questions about the use of robotic dogs in Trump’s security detail, including when the agency began deploying the device at his primary residence.Boston Dynamics also declined to answer specific questions, although it confirmed the Secret Service was deploying its Spot robot.