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Scammers list driveways on parking apps without owners knowledge
Parking app Just Park has been forced to issue an apology to homeowners who have fallen victims to a new scam where fraudsters rent out their...
Banning new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 would boost economy and create jobs claims Greenpeace
The British Government is due to announce a new date it proposes to introduce a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars within the next week,...
ASDA cuts petrol and diesel prices before second lockdown
ASDA has cut the price of petrol by 2p-a-litre and diesel by 3p-a litre before the country enters a second lockdown. Pump prices will be...
Residents fight back against emergency traffic calming measures
London is one of the busiest cities in the world for road traffic, over 1 million vehicles enter the city every day and the city itself contains 2.6...
Government urged to force “zero emission mandate” on car manufacturers
Car makers could be forced to sell a rising share of electric cars each year in the UK to accelerate the move to zero-emission vehicles, according...
Police to crack down on rubbernecking and using mobile phones
["Car Crash: 12 march 2009" by jenineabarbanel is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] Police warned a number of 'rubberneckers' at a recent accident in...
Fuel prices fall for Christmas, but Chancellor may increase fuel duty next year
Three months of petrol price increases have finished, with motorists set to benefit from more stable fuel prices in October, according to RAC Fuel...
PetrolPrices review of 2019 and new product features for 2020
Over the last year, PetrolPrices has changed a a great deal but our mission is always the same, which is to help drivers reduce fuel spend....
New data reveals Glasgow drivers are the worst traffic light offenders
New data shows that motorists in Scotland run red lights the most, with drivers in Glasgow disregarding red traffic lights more than...
Most local authorities still operate diesel vehicles: Is your local council hypocritical?
To meet international targets for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, in 2001, the government encouraged us to switch to diesel cars, even...
Distracted drivers targeted by AI “Interior Monitoring System” arriving in 2022
I’ve worked in automotive engineering for 30 years, with everything from a race-tuned Reliant Robin engine (to be used as a fire pump)...
AA slam supermarkets for excessively high shop spend limits to get fuel discounts
It’s hard to believe, and perhaps it gets lost with the differences between forecourts, but November saw petrol and diesel prices drop...
UK drivers getting lazy! Demand for automatic vehicles doubles in last five years
A report by the AA shows that those of us searching for cars with automatic gearboxes has almost doubled in the past five years, going...
Travelling over Christmas? Here are the top ten rip-off service stations revealed
The motorway service station has been around since Watford Gap opened in 1959. Back then, it was all fine dining and table-side service...
Study says a fiver’s worth of charge in an electric car takes you twice as far as £5 spent on petrol or diesel
A new study says that £5 worth of fuel—be it petrol, diesel, or electricity—goes almost twice as far in electric vehicles (EVs) than it...
Petrol stations are the latest places to dish out pricey parking tickets
Parking one’s car can be a nightmare and an often expensive one, too. Whether you’re using a train station car park or you’re parking...
Car tax evasion rates have tripled since the paper disc was withdrawn
Road vehicle taxation has been around since … well, road vehicles. The UK’s first road tax schemes for ‘light locomotives’ were...
Potholes & parking: two key strategies to win you over
As motorists, we get used to the ‘bust & boom’ nature of owning a car; hit with taxes, hit with taxes, and hit with taxes, with some...
New cars to have breathalysers and speed limiters by 2022 following new EU rule
A new EU regulation says that all new cars must have integrated breathalysers and speed-limiters by 2022. Existing models sold after...
Net Zero 2050: Are any major political parties doing it right? The electric car revolution
“All the Conservatives can offer is green number plates” – Labour spokesman, discussing radical new plans to usher in an ‘electric car...
BREXIT – The top private brexit number plates to go on sale for March 2020
Private car registrations are big business – in 2017 alone, the market generated over £110m in revenue, with an estimate of around...
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