Green light for photo licences
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Your support makes all the difference.New plastic driving licences bearing a photograph of the holder are to be issued early next year. The scheme was first announced by the Government in 1994 after surveys showed that four in five people were in favour of the idea.
The transport minister Steven Norris, said the cards would "bring significant benefits in establishing identity and the prevention of fraud". The civil liberties group Liberty said: "The photo licence should be viewed with alarm by anyone concerned about police powers [or] their own privacy."
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