OUR number plate is not for sale.
That was the message from bosses at Bolton Town Hall yesterday following suggestions local authorities should auction off the private plates of their mayoral cars to help meet budget deficits.
Bolton’s famous WH 1 Mayoral number plate is worth a six figure sum.
The striking plate was purchased in 1918 by [...]
Police have helped more than 200 motorists protect themselves from number plate thefts.
Following four number plate thefts in June in Great Glen, Harborough, the neighbourhood policing team arranged to distribute anti-theft screw packs with the parish council. These make it almost impossible to remove a number plate without breaking it.
Motorists took 247 of the kits [...]
Ben Bentley investigates the growing trend for vanity car registration plates and finds out that not only could many be illegal, some could leave you £1,000 out of pocket:
Twit plates, chav plates, “dumber-plates”. Call these customised vehicle registration plates what you wish – either way they are a vanity cause that could well be illegal.
Look [...]
Police are hoping the number will soon be up for thieves who have been targeting car registration plates.
Since the beginning of the year, an average of more than 10 number plates a month have been reported across Trent Valley police division which covers Burton, Tamworth, Lichfield, Burntwood and Uttoxeter.
In Burton, 19 vehicle number plates were [...]
Staffordshire Police are appealing for any information about a spate of number plate thefts across the Trent Valley region.
Since the start of 2010, Police have received on average 10 reports of number plate thefts a month across the region. The Tamworth region alone has seen some 18 thefts since the start of the year.
Burton-based Inspector, [...]
A Keighley student fitted false plates on his car, filled up with petrol at Skipton Tesco and made off without paying, a court heard.
Shakeeb Akram, 18, was acting totally out of character and had put his future education at risk as a result of his actions, Skipton Magistrates heard on Friday.
He was given a 12-month [...]
Women are less inclined to wash their car than men are, often leaving it for six months or more, new research has revealed.
Online car retailer Autoquake found that over half (56%) of women tend to put off washing their car compared to 44% of men.
Women are also more likely to get someone else to clean [...]
Avon and Somerset Police have launched a campaign to target drivers that flout road traffic laws today (Monday July 19).
Operation Vortex is part of a regional operation to reduce the number of casualties on roads across the whole of the South West.
The two-week operation will see road policing officers carry out targeted patrols on roads [...]
A CRACKDOWN on illegal vehicle number plates has been launched in the Isle of Man.
Infrastructure Minister Phil Gawne MHK said non-standard plates were difficult to read – and it appeared they were being used in some cases in a deliberate attempt to disguise the identity of a vehicle.
He said the Isle of Man had its [...]
CASH-strapped town halls have been slammed for refusing to give up number plates worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The mayoral car registrations are among the most sought-after in the country.
Blackburn with Darwen’s plate has been valued at up to £200,000, while Burnley’s would raise £100,000 and Rossendale’s £20,000.
Campaigners say keeping these ‘egotistical luxuries’ is a [...]
