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Closed Make England have BST during winter and BST + 1 hour during the summer.

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The advantages include:
-increased daylight during the afternoon.
-energy saving from lighting being delayed, producing reduced carbon emissions;
-reduced roads accidents
-health benefit from afternoon sunlight and outdoor exercise
- benefit the tourist trade
- no cost to UK exchequer

The Royal Society for the Prevention of accidents is in favour of GMT + 1 hour in the winter and GMT + 2 hours in the summer as more people are killed on the road as a result of the earlier afternoon darkness in the winter caused by our current winter time of GMT.

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