For some time there has been a growing campaign regarding flags on number plates, currently the law is that only the European flag can be shown on a vehicle number plate. However, patriotic drivers would prefer to have their own flag showing.
The campaign has been spear headed by the MP for Castle Point Bob Spink, [...]
When a mother from Hereford see that the her car outside was wheel clamped and had large yellow stickers stuck to it explaining that it the vehicle was untaxed and therefore would be clamped until the problem was sorted out.
Clearly, this was embarrassing especially as it was outside of her home, but Helen Maude knew [...]
Despite the DVLA selling thousands of personalised number plates every year through their website and through the six personalised number plate auctions held every year, driver are to be penalised for defective plates.
It has been estimated that around ten per cent of all the vehicles on the road could have defective number plates, this means [...]
Illegal tipping has become a nightmare in all areas for councils as the cost of disposing of rubbish reaches all time highs. Therefore, they are now resorting the using automatic number plate recognition cameras to catch them.
These hi tech systems are being placed around the county in eighteen waste recycling centres, this system will automatically [...]
With interest rates and other investment at all time lows, investors are looking for alternative places to put their cash. One such place is the personalised number plate sector and it is the DVLA who are cashing in on this trend.
The DVLA are reporting an increase in the amount of interest in their exclusive number [...]
Under the new MOT rules, testing staff will now have to check the vehicle number plates to ensure that they conform to the new law, if they do not then the vehicle will not pass the MOT.
This is plan to clamp down on those vehicle owners who have illegal number plates and the drivers who [...]
They may have been working out of a lock up in Northamptonshire, but a car ringing gang managed to sell dozens of cars by putting fakes number plates on them and false DVLA paperwork.
The gang of two consisted of Ross Underwood and Martin McBrien who are both aged 23 used their skills and knowledge of [...]
It seems that the personalised number plate bug is hitting Scotland in a big way as recent research has shown that Scottish drivers are more likely to have a personalised number plate on their vehicles.
The research was produced on a postcode basis and out their top twenty postcodes according to the DVLA database there were [...]
In this country we are innocent until proved guilty, but in other countries it different. New laws could mean that UK drivers could soon have to prove their innocence even if a crime has been committed in an eastern European country.
This is the ultimate in big brother technology, where a cloned number plate could be [...]
Darren Sims has been described as being a time bomb, after being told not to drive by his doctor after suffering eighteen months of seizures. This all came to a head when he was involved in accident that killed a pedestrian.
Not only that the job that he did also had serious safety issues, he was [...]
