Government officials hit back at accusations last week that they were encouraging councils to break the law and snoop on local residents, claiming instead that not only are they entitled to do so, but that they are required to by law.
A report in last week’s Sunday Express pillories local councils for acting unlawfully and misusing [...]
Police car crime experts have warned that thousands of cars on the UK’s roads have been “cloned”.
Cloning involves criminals using stolen vehicle documents to change the identity of a stolen vehicle to match a legitimate one.
During Car? Crime Awareness Week (17-23 May), the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) revealed that 1,300 cloned cars had [...]
Nearly 200 motorists who were fined a total of more than £11,000 could all be reimbursed after a 30mph speed limit was wrongly imposed on a Gwynedd road.
Drivers were caught in the speed trap on the A499 between Caernarfon and Pwllheli, while roadworks took place.
The 30mph limit was imposed by Gwynedd council, near Clynnog, in [...]
It might look like a random collection of letters and numbers, but there is actually logic behind the number plate on your car.
From today, the format is changing slightly. Here is our guide to making sense of it all.
What is happening?
2010 marks the first big change for the new style of registration plate. Until [...]
ALLEGATIONS that Hull City Council has abused its access to drivers’ details has been strenuously denied by its leader.
Councillor Carl Minns is fuming after the local authority appeared on a list of councils banned from accessing the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) database due to misuse of information.
Councils have been given the green light [...]
New research has found that drivers in Greater London who ignore speed limits are more likely to have their car number plates photographed compared to anywhere else in the UK.
RoadPilot, a GPS speed camera data supplier who conducted the survey, revealed that motorists were 100 times more likely to be caught and fined in Britain’s [...]
TOWN hall snoops have been caught red-handed using the DVLA’s database to spy on people.
The Big Brother tactics emerged after councils were given the green light to use DVLA car registration records, strictly to track down owners of abandoned vehicles.
Instead, and in breach of the rules, “inflated” bureaucrats have been checking up on residents suspected [...]
When on holiday in the Dordogne two weeks ago (feels like two months now!), I picked up a Sunday Times newspaper which stated that the government was reducing grant-funding for speed cameras. This was given the thumbs-up by the paper which reported that many motorists see such cameras as a tax first and a life-saver [...]
COUNCIL bosses have apologised after the car of a soldier serving in Afghanistan was seized and removed from outside his York home.
Mark Jamieson left his Skoda Fabia in the car park near his flat in Pottery Lane when he went on a six-month tour with the Royal Logistics Corps earlier this year.
But three weeks ago, [...]
It’s not Big Brother himself you’ve got to be wary of, it’s all his snotty nosed junior siblings that you need to keep your beady eye on.
Councils have been given access to the records of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) specifically for the purpose of tracing owners of abandoned cars. But it transpires [...]
