Licence to accelerate: spies to get speed limit exemption

'Sorry officer, I'm a spy,' set to become coolest excuse for putting your foot down in a 30mph zone

FEEL the need for speed? A career as a British spy may be the best way to indulge your street racing fantasies without having a brush with the law.

MI5 and MI6 officers will be allowed to break speed limits and ignore red lights under changes to motoring laws set to be announced today, the BBC reports.

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