Daylight Savings Time

RoSPA Wishes To Call Time on DST

March 27, 2019 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is calling for an end to Daylight Savings Time clock changes in order to prevent serious injury and death on the road. The family safety charity supports the European Parliament proposal to stop the obligatory one-hour, twice-yearly clock change which extends daylight hours in the summer, but reduces […]

Should We Have Lighter Evenings All Year?

March 24, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

As the nation prepares to move its clocks forward on Sunday to usher in the lighter summer evenings, RoSPA is calling for a change that would bring lighter evenings all year round. Typically, around the period in the autumn when the clocks go back, bringing darker evenings, the number of pedestrians killed and seriously injured […]