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Four out of five airports have increased drop-off charges, are you feeling the sting?
Just in time for the holiday season, comes research by a major motoring organisation that says, this year, four out of five airports in...
One in four motorists liable fined under ULEZ
Since the introduction of the new Ultra-Low Emission Zone on April 8th, Transport for London has raked in around £26m in levies and penalty charges....
MPs propose to ban all hands-free devices in cars
Someone using a mobile phone behind the wheel is four more times more likely to crash yet statistics show mobile phone use being a factor in...
Privately owned cars should be BANNED by 2030 says pro-Corbyn think tank
Politics; “the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies” – Groucho...
Speed limit technology to be implemented in all new cars by 2022
Speed limiters will be made compulsory fitted to all new vehicles in 2022 under proposals put forward by the European Union and this...
Retailer of the month: Co-op Fuel
Interview with Eddie Jenkinson, National Fuels Manager, Co-Op Fuel When did you start selling petrol? "In the 1990's" How many forecourts does the...
Over-70’s could soon have eye tests every three years under new DfT plans
In the 90’s only 33% of those over 70 had a driving licence, and now, 20 years later that figure has doubled with last year 67% of...
Jet launches premium fuels range called Ultra
The filling station brand, Jet, has launched a new dual range of ultra-premium fuels. Their latest products, Jet Ultra Premium Unleaded and Jet...
Rise in petrol lease cars drives up CO2 emissions
We recently told you that government ministers were looking for the link between outdated fossil-fuelled vehicles, and super clean, modern vehicles;...
Councils pocket more than £320m in PCN fines in one year
There were over nine million Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) fines issued by local councils in 2018, for offences including parking, misusing a bus lane...
Graduated licences could mean no young drivers on the roads at night
Passing your driving test is a rite of passage for lots of young (and often older) people and you can’t help but feel thrilled when you get hold of...
Get to know our brand new app with our walkthrough!
If you haven’t already heard, we released our new app recently and we wanted to go over some of the main exciting features we’ve included and show...
Dashcam vigilantes lead to over 1200 prosecutions last year
Nextbase, a manufacturer of dashcams who pioneered and funded the not-for-profit database, launched The National Dash Cam Safety Portal (NDCP) July...
Ministers call for crackdown on brakes and tyres as adding to the pollution problem
I often wonder, and I know that I’m not the first, what’s going to happen when vehicles are clean? When their emissions output is low, they can no...
Why PetrolPrices has changed and how YOU can get benefits from it
By now you may have noticed some changes to the PetrolPrices service. Over the last year we have been busy working on this new version of...
Motorway speed limit should be raised to 80 mph
I’ve been in the automotive business for over thirty years, and when it comes to ‘positive’ news for motorists, that 30+ years of...
Smart motorways safer without hard shoulders claims Highways England
In an interview last week with the BBC, Matt Pates, East Midlands regional traffic operations manager for Highways England, claimed that smart...
Fake engine noises on EV or hybrid vehicles now a legal requirement
As PetrolPrices reported on last year, in a bid for road safety to keep up with modern motoring, from the 1st of July, new electric vehicles and...
Motorway service stations charge up to 37p a litre more than stations less than 3 miles away
Exiting the motorway to refuel at a local garage could save motorists up to £20 A study by fuel price information service and app,...
Gridserve launch the first of 100 EV only forecourts in Essex
As Bob Dylan once wrote, ‘the times they are a-changing’. Like it or not, the internal combustion engine is dying a death. The days of...
Find out which towns and cities plan to remove cars to tackle congestion and pollution
Last week, we told you how Bristol is looking to ban cars from the city centre, seemingly in a desperate move to avoid paying back...
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