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Six points and £200 fine for using mobile phones behind the wheel from today

Six points for using mobile phones illegally

Penalties and fines for those using their mobile phone illegally when driving will be doubled to six points and £200 respectively from today...
Published 01 March 2017
Police call for witnesses after West Midlands hit and run

Police call for witnesses after hit and run

Police have released security camera footage of the moment that a BMW swerved on to the pavement and hit a girl aged 17...
Published 01 March 2017
Peugeot rules out job losses at Vauxhall

Peugeot rules out job losses at Vauxhall

PSA Peugeot Citroën has promised to safeguard all existing job guarantees in its €2bn takeover of Opel Vauxhall.
Published 01 March 2017
Plastic from car tyres pours into ocean

Plastic from car tyres pours into ocean

Clothes washing and driving are a much bigger problem in polluting the world’s oceans than the microbeads that the government plans to ban...
Published 01 March 2017
British roads are worse than Oman’s

British roads are worse than Oman’s and Namibia's

Roads in the UK are in a worse condition than in many other developed nations, even though Britons pay the world’s highest tax on fuel ...
Published 01 March 2017
China tells motorists: no GPS tracker, no petrol

China tells motorists: no GPS tracker, no petrol

Drivers in the troubled northwestern province of Xinjiang are to be forced to install GPS tracking devices on their vehicles to allow...
Published 01 March 2017
Scorpion-3 hoverbike takes off for extreme commute

Video: Hoverbike takes off for extreme commute

Watch a Star Wars-style hoverbike being tested successfully in Russia.
Published 01 March 2017
Va va voom: new Alpine A110 sports car takes aim at Porsche 718 Cayman

Va va voom: new Alpine A110 sports car

Its cars are some of the rarest on the road but Renault hopes car enthusiasts have a memory like an elephant as it attempts to jump start the Alp
Published 28 February 2017
Uber launches investigation after tech worker exposes ‘culture of sexism’

Tech worker exposes ‘culture of Uber sexism’

Silicon Valley executives like to think of themselves as disrupting tradition. But in certain respects, some seem to remain in the dark ages...
Published 28 February 2017

VW UK boss tells ‘blatant lies’

MPs condemned the boss of Volkswagen in Britain for telling “blatant lies” after he denied that the carmaker deceived customers during...
Published 28 February 2017
Beggars park and feed the meter before a day on the streets

No job and parking meter to feed

Three beggars have been filmed paying to park their car before walking in to their regular spot in a city centre where they ask for money...
Published 28 February 2017
Strike threat looming at BMW Group over plans to change pensions

Strike threat looming at BMW

BMW has been warned that it could face the first strike by its British workforce over plans to downgrade its pension scheme.
Published 28 February 2017