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Britain faces a freezing winter and yesterday’s unseasonal snowfall is just the start, the Met Office has predicted. The UK’s official forecaster has prepared its three-month outlook for ministers and council bosses. But, after predictions of a “barbecue summer” were ridiculed in 2010, it no longer releases such forecasts to the public. Despite that, one […]
Diesel Fumes: Toxic The Daily Mail reports a World Health Organization, (WHO) warning that diesel exhaust fumes are a “major cancer risk” and belong in the “same deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas”. Meanwhile the BBC says that diesel fumes are “definitely a cause of lung cancer”. This widely reported news is based […]
London Mayor Boris Johnson has cut funding to build electric car charging points in London by 65% Back in the Summer of 2009 Captain Boris announced to the Climate Change Conference in Seoul (how many carbon dioxides did it cost all the delegates to get there, I wonder) that he intended making London the electric […]
Courtesy of British road safety charity the IAM, here is some driving advice when it comes to severe weather and rain. Before you set off, set your heater controls — windows can mist up in seconds. You don’t want to be fiddling with controls when you should be concentrating on the road, especially in the […]
The UK’s boast that it sells the cheapest petrol in Europe before tax is no longer true, according to the AA Fuel Price Report. Austria, which regulates fuel prices, has undercut the average pre-tax petrol price in Britain during 25 of the past 52 weeks. The AA claims this is even more remarkable when the […]
Sky high premiums The Transport Secretary will today urge young drivers and women motorists to have ‘black boxes’ fitted in their cars to reduce sky-high insurance premiums by as much as half. Justine Greening will say that insurance costs increasingly bear ‘little relationship to the real world’, revealing figures showing that young male drivers now […]
Car insurance, law change is dysfunctional New laws are coming into force which will make it illegal to keep a car uninsured, even if it’s not being used. Drivers will face a £100 fine and potentially have their car seized and destroyed, unless the vehicle is certified as off the road. From today, the DVLA […]
Premiums drop by 11% Car owners have had some rare good news. New research has revealed a 10.6 per cent decrease in the average cost of car insurance premiums. The annual cost has fallen to £478 per year, according to a report by price comparison website MoneySupermarket. After a prolonged period of premiums rising, things […]
Women drivers to pay more to pay more for insurance due to ‘boy racers’ Women drivers will soon pay a for boy racers, as insurers are banned from discriminating between the sexes. Giant insurers are to be banned from using your sex when deciding how much you should get for a pension or pay for […]
Adding your wife to a car insurance policy can save £502 Adding your wife to a car insurance policy can save £502 off the cost of an average policy, research from comparison website confused.com has found. It says that women can more than halve the car insurance bill for a man by simply being added […]
