A MAN arrested at the wheel of a luxury car has been jailed after it emerged that the £45,000 vehicle had been stolen two days earlier and that he had been banned from driving.
Riyadh Mbarak, 29, of Sandalwood Drive, Ruislip, was given a 12-month prison sentence after admitting to handling stolen goods and to driving [...]
Police officers from the Northamptonshire Police Operation Tactical Unit took part in a nationwide ANPR day of action on Friday, March 12.
Throughout the day 32 officers took part in the operation that was aimed at tackling criminals using the county’s roads.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an established technology that reads vehicle number plates via [...]
LONDON – Auto Trader, the car brand owned by Trader Media Group, has released an iPhone app that uses image recognition technology to read car number plates.
The new app enables users to search for information on vehicles designed to help consumers before making a new purchase, such as make and model records and performance figures.
The [...]
As a Labour candidate in a working class area of Liverpool, glamorous 28-year-old Londoner Luciana Berger has gone to great lengths to prove her down-to-earth credentials.
The privately-educated friend of the Blairs’ son Euan has spent months canvassing on jobs, schools and hospitals.
And such is her devotion, the former management consultant has even ditched a car [...]
THE race is on to become Didcot’s proudest resident in an online auction for the number plate D10COT.
The official DVLA numberplate was bought seven years ago as an investment by Marc Joines, 36, of Swinburne Road, Oxford, and has never been fitted to a car.
He drives a Vauxhall Astra, with personalised number plate C1STRA to [...]
Wealden police advise drivers to be extra vigilant following a spate of number plate thefts.
It’s thought the stolen plates are used on vehicles involved in crime, for example driving off from garage forecourts.
To crack down on the number of offences police are offering special screws free of charge which cannot easily be undone.
Source [Sussex Express]
KILLER Peter Chapman was brought to justice after his vehicle registration number triggered a police camera.
The number had been put into the automatic number plate recognition system after he had failed to comply with notice requirements as a convicted sex offender.
He was picked up by officers on patrol in the Cleveland area and taken to [...]
THE front page of the Herald Express on February 18 carried the story of the man who tried to pretend his car number plates had been cloned to escape a speeding fine.
One can be sure that the anti-motorist lobby in Torbay, who never depart their delightful Devon county for employment, would be absolutely enthralled with [...]
MUM seems to be the word when it comes to personalised car registrations.
The DVLA revealed it has sold around 1,500 prefix and new style MUM registrations, indicating just how popular this has become as a Mother’s Day gift.
There’s now a colossal 32 million personalised registrations sitting in the dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk vault – and high on the [...]
Stuck for ideas for the perfect mother’s day present. The DVLA has revealed that more and more mums are sporting their very own personalised registration plate.
DVLA Personalised Registrations has sold around 1,500 prefix and new style “MUM” registrations, a clear indication a private number plate makes the perfect Mother’s Day gift.
Source [Girl Racer]
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