This is the last regular day of news on Highways News this year, as the industry winds down for Christmas. We usually find very little goes on in the week ahead of Christmas to justify our daily newsletter, but we will put any major stories onto our website and social media.

So all that’s left is to say thank you to you for reading the newsletter every day and making it the place that the industry goes to get its news – we really do seem to have become a key part of everyone’s working day.

Thank you to all our partners who support us through the year and the podcast partners and sponsors who make our trips to events such as the ITS European Congress and Highways UK possible. We look forward to bringing you stories from, among other things, Intertraffic Amsterdam and the ITS World Congress in Dubai next year. Thank you to all the organisations who share their content with us, and to JCT, ERTICO and Highways UK for being fabulous media partners. We’d also like to thank the backroom team of Ed and Jack who keep our website and social media feeds working, and Sarah and Harry who help out at exhibitions and in many other ways.

So all that remains is to wish you a heartfelt Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and we’ll be back in your inbox in January.

(The picture shows Paul, left and Adrian at Highways UK in October. We thought about photoshopping Santa hats on, but thought better of it)