The bollard sinks to allow buses and taxis through, but other vehicles have followed and been hit as it rises.

BBC: Slough drivers warned over return of rising bollard

Slough Borough Council has now put a large red sign at the end of the town's High Street where the bollard was installed in December.

BBC: Slough High Street rising bollard 'struck 19 times'

Slough Borough Council installed the bollard in 2010 to restrict access to the town's High Street - and it was struck 19 times within two months.

BBC: Slough drivers warned over return of rising bollard

On 1 December, car passenger Carol Manley was seriously injured when a concrete bollard fell from a bridge onto her car on the A12 near Galleywood in Essex.

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It was a straightforward Saturday for the rest of the field even though the second phase of qualifying was halted when a bollard was knocked over at Turn Nine.

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The bollard, installed to stop the street being used as a "rat run", was jammed in the upright position for two days at one point after being struck four times in a day.

BBC: Slough drivers warned over return of rising bollard

Now Mr Bollard, a public servant who writes novels (unpublished) and likes inventing board games (yet to become popular), jumps from being the government's chief economic adviser as treasury secretary, to the role of the economy's conscience as the central bank's governor.

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