Despite the global economic downturn, Dubai motorists forked out a total of Dh12 million for some of the emirate’s most sought-after number plates.
About 120 bidders packed the Roads & Transport Authority’s (RTA) 68th Distinguished Number Plate Auction at the Theatre Hall in its head office.
The auction attracted more bidders than on previous occasions, despite the [...]
JUSTICE has finally caught up with a fraudster who ripped off a motorcyclist from a village near Burton more than a decade ago.
Mark Seabridge, 46, boasted to a friend as he flew off to a new life as a restaurant owner in Tenerife that he had conned someone out of £6,000 for a private number [...]
NEW number plates have become the in-thing and it will be compulsory to change them within one year.
The new plates expire after five years when they have to be renewed.
There are over 480 000 vehicles in every region and about 180 330 vehicles in the country thus the reason they are giving Swazis a year [...]
Skye woman cleared in court after cyclists complain she passed too close
A Skye driver who was cleared in court after it was claimed that cyclists who complained about her driving did not like her “satanic” S 666 SKY car number plate said yesterday she had no plans to get rid of the plate.
Sally Phelps, 65, [...]
A SAFFRON Walden woman has been fined £75 by Uttlesford District Council for throwing a cigarette butt from her car window.
The resident was spotted by a council officer throwing the cigarette butt from her car as she waited in a line of stationary traffic on Radwinter Road, Saffron Walden.
Uttlesford District Council has said it will [...]
A registration number must be correctly displayed in line with the law. You’ll need to go to a registered number plate supplier to get new number plates for your vehicle. The registered supplier will need proof of your identity, as well as proof that the registration number belongs to you.
What you need – The number [...]
The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) has rejected a request from a man in Stockholm for a car registration plate which reads FCKU2MF.
In rejecting the request the agency cited guidelines which stipulate that number plates may not be formed in such a way that may cause offence.
The Local reported in July that other combinations that have [...]
The UK car registration number S 1 sold today at a sale held by Bonhams the auctioneers at the Goodwood Revival Festival. The full price paid was £404,062.50, a figure far in excess of the £250,000 that had been the amount mentioned in press speculation before the sale.
S 1 was one of the first number [...]
Our mobile phones may be about to get a genuine workout, with a new service called motorTEXTER giving motorists the ability to SMS or ‘text’ each other courtesy of their unique number plate.
Operating in ‘trial mode’ for the past couple of months, the service launched at 2pm today, with around 20 or 30 early adopters [...]
