Auto Trader’s new app reads car number plates

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 [...]

The number’s up: Labour candidate’s working class credentials take a hit after she buys £5,000 numberplate

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 [...]

Buyer sought for D10 COT number plate

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 [...]

Motorists warned over spree of number plate thefts

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]

Car plate triggered by police camera

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 [...]

Number plate cloning is big business in the cities

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’s the word for number plates

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 [...]

MY10 Mum for mother’s day

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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Neath Police target criminals on the road

As part of an ongoing crackdown against crime, police in Neath have held an operation to deny criminals the use of the road.
Neighbourhood Policing Officers teamed up with colleagues from the Roads Policing Unit and officers from the Automatic Recognition Number Plate (ANPR) team.
Officials from HM Revenue and Customs were also present to test vehicles [...]

New format to auctions of DVLA number plates

The DVLA have amended the bidding system for their online auctions of private number plates.
The previous system was a fixed bid system whereby you submitted your bid without knowing any other bids and waited until the whole auction ended to see if your bid was succesful.
The new system is much like Ebay whereby you submit [...]