MOTORISTS are being warned to be on guard following a spate of brazen number plate thefts.
Sneak thieves are ripping registration plates off parked vehicles and fixing them to their own cars, then filling their tanks with petrol and driving away without paying.
Greenock police say the crime used to be a rare occurrence but they’re now [...]
The demand for premium number plates has fetched the Andheri regional transport office Rs 1.20 crore in Q1 itself. A total of 1,556 car owners have made the department richer with most car owners demanding number plates with 9 and 1.
Under the motor transport rules, a citizen needs to pay a registration fee for availing [...]
SPY cameras hidden inside the lollipops used by crossing guides have been unveiled as the latest weapon to catch out motorists in the Lothians.
The new “video pole” will be used in East Lothian for the first time today, with the local authority becoming the first in Scotland to invest in the £1050 piece of hi-tech [...]
NEW Zealand officials have allowed a motorist to keep her licence plate “ARYAN 1″ because it was intended a gesture of affection towards her former partner, not a statement of white supremacy.
The NZ Transport Agency investigated the plate after a member of the public complained that the term “Aryan”, used by Hilter’s Nazis to describe [...]
A grateful visitor to Hastings has thanked police for reuniting her with her lost camera.
Officers used the registration number of Julia Bainbridge’s car pictured in a photograph to track the item back to her after she dropped it.
She said: “I was in Pelham Road car park putting the ticket onto the windscreen.
“I remember the car [...]
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 [...]
As Maharashtra government’s deadline to remove fancy vehicle number plates lapsed on Tuesday, the state politicians continue to violate the order.
Home Minster R.R. Patil had issued a directive in this regard giving a week to the people to correct their number plates if it did not meet the criteria.
Giving specifications for the number plates Patil [...]
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 [...]
