One of the last billboards that violated Houston’s ordinance has come down. It is among some 800 being removed from neighborhoods around the city.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower-court ruling, saying the city's 2002 prohibition of outdoor advertising does not violate a sign company's 1st Amendment right to free speech.

Love ’em or hate ’em, digital billboards are here.

The lone remaining question for San Antonio, the only major Texas city to allow them so far, is this: Will there be more?

THE CITY HAS always been an engine of intellectual life, from the 18th-century coffeehouses of London, where citizens gathered to discuss chemistry and radical politics, to the Left Bank bars of modern Paris, where Pablo Picasso held forth on modern art. Without the metropolis, we might not have had the great art of Shakespeare or James Joyce; even Einstein was inspired by commuter trains.

When questioned, over one third (37 per cent) of motorists admit to being distracted by attractive pedestrians whilst driving, a new study by leading motor insurer Direct Line has found.