Fresh guidance on local speed limit-setting would urge highway authorities to focus on roads where there is a widespread disregard for limits, as well as those with a poor casualty history. But campaigners said they wanted inappropriate speed as well excessive speed to be tackled. Paul Hamblin, transport policy officer at the Campaign to Protect Rural England, said it was difficult to exceed the ‘inappropriate’ 60mph national limit in many cases. Road safety minister, Stephen Ladyman, said the guidance – to inform the national review of speed limits on A and B roads by 2011 – would be published ‘soon’.