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Scottish Driving Instructors Must Be Members Of The Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme 🔒 New Legal Requirement (Effective 1 April 2025) You have up to 30th June to register!! All Approved Driving Instructors (ADIs), Potential Driving Instructors (PDIs), and rider trainers working in Scotland must be members of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme. This…

For the older generation who loves Eastenders, you might remember Ricky from his Fatboy days in the show where he starred for over six years. After leaving Eastenders, Ricky moved into Celebrity Big Brother 2016, where he finished runner-up. He has since starred in the Netflix films Princess Switch and Dancing on Ice, among other…

Londoners opposed to the ULEZ expansion have launched a guerilla war against the cameras used by the police to enforce the scheme. The Transport for London (TFL) has set up several Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. However, drivers in London are now hitting back by placing shopping bags and cardboard boxes onto the cameras.…

The DVSA recently launched a campaign called ‘Ready to Pass?’ to help educate learner drivers about taking a driving test too soon. However, many learners are so eager to pass they fail their test because they take it too early. This not only causes the learner to be upset, but it also means you need…

A Huddersfield driver has claimed they were stuck driving around Huddersfield for over an hour, searching for a disabled space. Posted on a local Facebook page, the driver claimed that he could not park his work vehicle, which they use to take disabled residents into towns so they can make appointments. The vehicle in question…

At the beginning of the year, there was an uproar in Aberdeen about petrol prices as prices skyrocketed at a disheartening rate. You could drive past some petrol forecourts, and within 24 hours, the prices had gone up another 1-2 pence. Our driving instructors in Aberdeen were faced with the prospect of increasing their lesson…

Residents in Croydon may soon be banned from driving on 11 streets due to safety concerns. Croydon has already implemented 24 ‘school streets’ and wants to increase that to 35 when these 11 new roads are approved. The aim of ‘school streets’ is to improve children’s safety and air quality whilst encouraging them to walk…

With petrol prices showing no signs of decreasing, drivers across the country are trying to save money on fuel. However, one way to save fuel during the cost of living crisis is by rolling up your windows if you are travelling over a certain speed. Whilst this may seem counteractive during the current heatwave gripping…

Nottinghamshire Police stopped a man in his 80’s for driving whilst uninsured. As police began speaking to the driver from Bulwell, it became clear that he had no insurance and never passed his driving test. The driver, born in 1938, told police that he had been driving since 1950 when he was 12-years-old, and he…

There has been an ever-increasing backlog of requests for the DVLA to apply changes to driving licences. During a Department for Transport debate in the House of Commons last month, the MP for Frome, David Warburton, challenged the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps MP, over the issue. He made this challenge as the…