This weekend’s bank holiday is expected to be the busiest on the roads for six years, with Britons planning more than 22 million leisure journeys. According to data from the RAC a record number of people are planning trips between Friday and Monday, leading to potentially long delays and problems on many of the most […]

Safety campaigners are calling for a review of speed limits on rural roads after a report found most drivers don’t feel safe travelling at the 60mph speed limit. The study by the charity Brake and insurer Direct Line found that 60 per cent of drivers feel unsafe travelling at the default limit on single-carriageway rural […]

Shocking video footage suggests that three-quarters of Britons are willing to help an apparently drunk motorist get into their car to drive. As part of an investigation into attitudes towards drink-driving, a hidden camera was set up to capture people’s responses when asked by a “drunk” driver to help unlock their car so they could […]

Sainsbury’s is offering motorists a break from relentless fuel prices rises with a new promotion offering 10p off every litre at its filling stations. The retailer has announced the offer just a day after it and the other big four supermarkets were criticised for having raised prices almost every day for the last three months. […]

This is the shocking moment a learner driver was almost involved in a head-on crash. A reader sent the video footage to our sister title the Derbyshire Times showing a learner driver on a driving lesson with Bill Plant Driving School near Arkwright, Chesterfield, at about 4.30pm last Friday. The footage shows the learner driver […]

Britain’s supermarkets have increase their petrol prices almost every single day for the last three months. Prices at the “big four” chains’ filling stations have not fallen since late February, despite other retailers cutting their charges. The supermarkets, which sell 45 per cent of all the country’s fuel, have raised the price of unleaded on […]

A driver has survived a terrifying near-miss after a tyre detached from a lorry and crushed his oncoming car. Police said the man is “the luckiest driver in the world” after he survived the 22.5-inch tyre crashing through his windscreen on the M6. The driver of this car is the luckiest person in the world […]

Honda has announced that reservations for its electric city car – the Honda e – are now open. Customers in the UK, Germany, France and Norway can now put their name down for one of the much-anticipated EVs via a dedicated reservation site. A refundable reservation fee of £800 will get them a “priority ordering” […]

British drivers have been hit with a major rise in the number of tickets handed out by private parking firms. RAC Foundation analysis of government data has revealed that an additional 2.05 million tickets were issued last year compared with 2017/18. That represents a 20 per cent annual increase and means the private enforcement companies […]