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I make no comment on the immigrant bit (fair play to him) but I find it sad that in a village of 5000 people or so there is not one kid who can be bothered to do the work anymore. Discuss !

A bit of light-hearted fun for a damp evening. Can you land the plane in the right place? I managed 27,363 points on the first attempt, including some real howlers :o

Hi all, I dont post much as you can see but have just come back from 3500 mile tour of Europe in 07 SL55 Performance pack which we purchased in January. What a suprerb piece of kit for this trip, drove through France / Spain for Moto gp/Moncoco/swiss alps/southern Germany (mercedes and porsche...

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Hi everybody,happy to be back from holiday in Europe.First picture is from Tuesday trip computer data-translated in English is around 1050 miles covered for 18 hours continuous driving.The second is from yesterday - 850 miles covered with 13 hours driving.Average speed around 63 mi/hour and...

I wonder if there is such a thing anywhere other than with eVan - year round cover with no limit on european travel... I had this with eVan then Asda took over and now it's back to 90 day limit with them, or if I stay with eVan they want to put my premium up from about £400 to £1800 despite no...

Arrived back home last night after covering 2639 miles around Europe in 10 days (63 hours driving time). The first two days provided some awful weather but it was non-stop sunshine after that. The car took everything we threw at it, from torrential rain to snow to mountain ascents in...

Morning all. I need European day trip cover for a trip to France to pick up some cigars at the end of April. I plan to use the E55, which will be 14 yrs 5 months old then. Does anyone have a recommendation for a provider? E55BOF

Hi, taking over my dad's 20year old w124 coupe, will restore and give it some upgrades. so this is my first euro car. personally, i'm a toyota/lexus fan, and always will be. however this mb is more of personal memories to me, therefore, i will be putting in great efforts to keep it my daily...

Hi, Apologies if I get the exact terminology wrong. I have been sent sent a summary of this by HR with a letter attached where I can opt-out of the 48 hour working week by signing it. I feel uncomfortable about this, I regularly work longer hours but don't agree with signing a letter...

Just 6 days into our holiday taking our 11 year old e320 cdi through Europe and (touchwood) everthing is going well. We left Blighty on Sunday morning and travelled down to Bayeux to see the D-Day beaches of which my father landed on in 1944 rang him to say we were there and I said there is a...

In a fortnight I will be touring Europe in my 11 year old E320 for about a month(for my 50th birthday) although it is in pretty good condition I want to take out breakdown cover . I have UK cover with the aa but they are very expensive for Europe.Can anybody recommend a good service where if the...

Vauxhall Ampera is 2012 European Car of the Year | Automotive & Motoring News | Car Magazine Online Fuel consumption, extra-urban driving mpg (litres/100km) 217.3 (1.3) Fuel consumption, urban driving mpg (litres/100km) 313.9 (0.9) Fuel consumption, combined mpg (litres/100km) 235.4 (1.2)...

Can someone share their experiences with european breakdown cover providers? I'm consdering AA, RAC, GreenFlag and EuropAssist... Never needed it... but the car I'm going in is the ford, and I'm not 100% sure about it :p Any ideas? M.

Just returned from a short European road trip driving holiday from the UK to Barcelona & can honestly say that the C350 CDI performed brilliantly over 2360 miles of driving. Stats from reset : 2361 miles covered Avg Speed : 54 mph Avg Consumption 44.4 Mpg 46:35 h Driving Time Just...

Hi everyone. Been a long time since I posted, however I wanted to pick your cultured brains!! I´m planning to do a tour from where I live in Malaga- Spain, to Tuscany. Can anyone suggest a beautiful route for this tour? Are there French and Italian towns I shouldn´t miss? My aim is...

A new tourism strategy, which is expected to contain plans to move British standard time to Central European Time, will be published by the government later this week. If the plans get the green light it would mean that the clocks would be brought forward an extra hour from Greenwich Mean Time...

NTG2.5 map update DVD set is now in the UK. Its called V5.0 Theres info on what is in it here : - Comand Online Ltd :: Mercedes SatNav/COMAND :: Mercedes Navigation Disks :: Comand APS Map 2010/2011 for Hard Disk COMAND NTG2.5 in A B CLC W211-E CLS SL SLK ML GL R Sprinter Vito Viano...

The new map set (V7.0 2010/2011) for COMAND-APS in W204 (C and GLK) and SLS has just been released, so if you are finding missing roads / inaccuracy on your W204 it may be worth upgrading the maps in the COMAND. Remember if you have a MY2011 car you get free updates for 3 years .. and I think...

Hi, This may well have been asked before but I couldn't find it. I have a work colleague who recently immigrated to the UK from Denmark, they have 10 years no claims on their insurance in Denmark - would any UK insurers respect this? If just a select few, names would be nice here please...