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Global Road Safety Week – Let’s All Reduce Collisions

May 3, 2019 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is using the forthcoming UN Global Road Safety Week as an opportunity to encourage all drivers and riders to consider the risks they face (and the risks they pose) on their daily journeys, and to find ways of reducing those risks. The Fifth UN Global Road Safety […]

Filed Under: Daily News Tagged With: Car Articles, Daily News, GEM, GEM Motoring Assist, Neil Worth, Road Safety Week, UN Global Road Safety Week, WHO, World Health Organisation

Do You Drive A Van? Struggle To Find Parking?

February 12, 2019 by Mr Butterscotch 1 Comment

Roads that aren’t fit for purpose and poorly maintained, alongside sparsely available parking facilities and regular parking fines are having a detrimental impact on the nation’s van drivers and operators, according to new research from Mercedes-Benz Vans. An overwhelming majority of drivers feel there’s a parking problem in the UK for vans (90%). This is […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Car Articles, Daily News, Daily van news, Delivery drivers, Driving stress, Driving van news, Mercedes-Benz vans, Parking fines, Van driver polls, Van drivers, Workplace stress

How Will A ‘No-Deal’ Impact Industry?

February 2, 2019 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

UK automotive companies are today urging all politicians to do whatever it takes to avoid a ‘no deal’ Brexit as latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show British car production fell to its lowest level for five years in 2018. 1,519,440 new cars left UK factories, a decline of -9.1%, […]

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: Automotive news, Brexit, Brexit news, Car Articles, Daily News, Industry News

No Deal Brexit Could Be Catastrophic, Warn Businesses

November 30, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Three quarters of UK automotive businesses fear a ‘no-deal’ Brexit will threaten their future viability, according to a new member survey announced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) at its 102nd annual dinner in London this evening. The results highlight the critical need for a Brexit withdrawal deal and transition to prevent the […]

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: Brexit, Brexit news, Car Articles, Daily News, How Brexit impacts the motor industry in 2018 and beyond, Motor industry news, SMMT, UK trading partners

Do Darker Evenings Spell More Dangerous Roads?

October 28, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

With the end of British Summer Time (BST) bringing in darker evenings, Brake, the road safety charity, is calling on the Government to commit to moving to Single/Double Summer Time (SDST) to help save lives on the road. SDST would move our clocks forward an additional hour all year round and so would create lighter […]

Filed Under: Safety & Security Tagged With: British Summer Time, Car Articles, Daily News, Darker evenings, GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, Joshua Harris, road safety, road safety figures, SDST

Fuel Duty Is Frozen Again…

October 3, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Thankfully for motorists, fuel duty has been frozen again – for the ninth year in a row.  Whilst this is good news in principle, the fact remains that it costs on average over £70 to fill the tank of a family car.  Most would agree this is a significant amount of money for what is […]

Filed Under: Daily News Tagged With: Car Articles, Costs of using a car, Daily News, fuel, Fuel and duty costs, Fuel costs, Using a car, Using a car daily

Bentley History Captured On Iconic Camera

September 21, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Bringing together landmark vehicles and iconic camera technology for the first time, the pioneering Polaroid 20×24 Land Camera has been used to photograph famous Bentley models for a limited edition Opus book celebrating the British brand’s centenary. While the ground-breaking camera has been used previously to capture Hollywood celebrities and world leaders, this is the […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Bentley, Bentley Opus, Brooklands, Car Articles, Daily car news, Daily News, Flying B insignia, Indianapolis, Polaroid

Andy Palmer Plans Foundation For Apprenticeships

September 20, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Dr Andy Palmer, President and Group Chief Executive of Aston Martin Lagonda, today announced plans to create the Palmer Foundation, a privately-funded programme to create industrial apprenticeship opportunities for young people in the UK. Andy Palmer, who began his own automotive career as an apprentice, has undertaken to fund the scheme, which will also be […]

Filed Under: Jobs Tagged With: Aston Martin, Aston Martin Lagonda, Car Articles, Daily News, Dr Andy Palmer, Hitomi Palmer, industry jobs, Jobs

Ford Sponsors Road Safety Week 2018

September 17, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Ford is a headline sponsor of this year’s Brake Road Safety Week, the largest road safety campaign of its kind in the UK. The week-long national campaign – coordinated with the support of the Department for Transport – will take place from 19 to 25 November 2018. The theme of this year’s Road Safety Week […]

Filed Under: Daily News Tagged With: Bike Smart, Car Articles, Daily News, Department for Transport, Ford, Road safety campaigns, Road Safety Week, Share The Road campaign, smart

Brake Comments On Car Danger Research

July 24, 2018 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Research published today by the AA charitable trust shows that driving is now seen as a bigger threat to teenagers’ safety than gun and knife crime. When asked ‘What do you think is the greatest risk to the safety of teenagers?’ 17% of people answered with driving compared to just 11% ten years ago. Whilst […]

Filed Under: Daily News Tagged With: AA charitable trust research, Brake, Car Articles, Car news, Daily News, GDL, GLD, Graduated driver licensing, Graduated Licensing schemes, Joshua Harris, Learning to drive, Research published today by the AA charitable trust shows that driving is now seen as a bigger threat to teenagers’ safety than gun and knife crime, Road safety issues, Young drivers, Young driving

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