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Diesel drivers will be paid to scrap their cars to improve air quality As usual the devil will be in the detail.

Dear dinoy, The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Reinstate The 25Year Rolling Road Tax Exemption”. Government responded: Classic vehicles are an important part of the UK’s heritage. We already offer a 40 year rolling exemption. Around 10,000 classic vehicles each year...

Those considering the C-Class 350e and wanting the £5000 government grant may need to act soon. The government have said that the present grant scheme will be maintained until 50,000 registrations have been reached then new figures apply. Judging by the report below by the limit may soon...

Morocco encouraging taxi drivers to scrap Mercedes w123s | Ran When Parked Should they do the same here?

From the BBC.... just catching up on news at home. Welsh language campaigners say they have chained themselves to the gates of Welsh government offices in a protest at a "lack of response" to the decline in the number of Welsh speakers. Six members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg...

Thread as per title. Summary of proposed changes:- A minimum learning period for drivers before they are permitted to sit their test, which is expected to be around one year. this effectively makes the age to drive 18. however Another idea to drop the age at which people can start to...

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It is a slow day in a damp little Irish town. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on...

Good God above. Common sense at last. It will be put into use again as an Olympic Access Route but after that the abomination goes. BBC News - Government to scrap M4 bus lane

Well, well, well. It seems HMG have been quietly cooking the statistical books to make their "Road Safety" policies look good. Short article which includes a link to the full DfT report here. I wonder why this publication didn't get the same trumpeting from Ministers as the one earlier this...

Drivers put less tax into Treasury Cash-strapped drivers are generating less tax for the Treasury despite a rise in fuel duty, AA figures have revealed. Drivers put less tax into Treasury. Falling petrol and diesel sales in the first three months of 2009 produced £97.3...

This thread is going to raise a lot of hackles I'm sure but I guess someone has to raise it.:eek::eek::eek::eek: Its beginning to look like the UK govt are going to sign off the Scrappage policy in April 2009 (a scheme which has been winging its way around other European countries) in order...

Watch out a new virus.:eek: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4381034.ece

So, the "majority of drivers" would benefit from the VED changes, eh? Gordon Brown and other ministers repeatedly insisted that only a small number of drivers would be left worse off. There is a technical term for this: a lie. Today the Treasury attempted to slip the real figures out in a...

DON'T PANIC!!!!!! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4103812.ece So guess what Mrs S. reports seeing this afternoon......

If you are having a bad day, then you may draw some comfort from the fact that at both FDH and the UK Office of Government Commerce somebody is bound to be having a far, far worse one: http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/04/the-original-lo.html Our taxes are indeed well spent.

You will have seen the coverage about "tax free" bonus of £2240 to be paid to those risking their lives in combat. How generous. However per the ARRSE forum threads, changes to Longer Service Separation Allowances and tinkering around with qualifying periods mean that whilst it is now very...

Right... I have trouble believing this is real (considering I have not seen it all over every news paper around the world...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsLj2ScRkFo any comments? (note: its 2 hrs long...)

Earlier today now I was reading about the fiasco of the Police raids in London last week and how it is so easy to get the balance wrong. And also so easy for competing Departments and general turf wars to turn it into an even worse disaster especially when each are under pressure to get a "big...

http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/default.asp