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Riding a motorbike in winter: Top tips

Riding a motorbike in winter is a perfect way to avoid congestion and crowded public transport and if you can master the smooth riding style that slippery roads demand, you’ll be honing your skills too.

Would you pass the driving theory test today?

When the driving licence was launched in 1903, it cost all of 5 shillings (25p) and car tax would set you back 20 shillings (£1) a year. Much has changed since then, including the introduction in 1996 of separate driving theory test.

Carless utopia – Paris sans Voiture

Carless utopia for one day A cynic might argue that the car free day is little more than PR ahead of a United Nations climate change conference being hosted in Paris later this year, but rising pollution has forced the city to act. In March, air pollution briefly made Paris the most polluted city in the world. Smog became so…

Roadside mobile phone detector targets drivers

A new generation of roadside mobile phone detector that targets drivers using hand-held devices behind the wheel is to be trialled in Sussex. Funded by the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, the pioneering equipment will be able to detect the use of mobile phones within vehicles whenever they drive past the sign.