Pain for motorists as filling car with petrol touches £100 The cost of filling a large family car with petrol rose to almost £100 yesterday as forecourt prices reached record heights of 140.2p a litre.
Petrol breaks through 140p barrier to reach record high Average price of petrol at the pumps has now reached 140.20p a litre, with diesel at a new record of 146.72p, the AA says, as prices jump more than 2.75p a litre in just three weeks.
New Zealand to change baffling road rule For 35 years, New Zealand has been the only place on Earth to force vehicles hugging a turn at an intersection to yield to traffic making a wider arc across the intersection.
The ‘granny tax’ and a problem for Boris Inevitably, there is a London element to the Chancellor’s “granny tax”, and Ken Livingstone is making the most of it. There are a million pensioners living in London, many of them in the suburbs that Mr Livingstone is courting. Four in 10 will lose, on average, £83 a year as a result of the move to freeze and gradually abolish the age-related tax allowance. Mr Livingstone is 66; it is an opportunity to make the most of his age by appealing to voters who, to date, were more inclined to vote Tory. And older voters are far more likely to vote in the first place.
Old prejudices die hard, even in Obama’s America Obviously,” said a White House spokesman, “we’re not going to wade into a local law enforcement matter.” He was talking about the shooting, by a neighbourhood watch volunteer, of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, and the failure of the Florida police to arrest or even investigate the killer.
Heavens above, just let us shop on Sundays Is Sunday really sacred? There has been an Almighty hullabaloo following news that Sunday trading laws are to be suspended during the Olympics for eight weeks, enabling large shops to trade for more than six hours. Analysts say we will spend more than £200?million, with half that amount being spent in London. Surely that is good news for London and commerce? We live in a 24/7 world, and closing or limiting the hours that a shop can open on a Sunday does seem a quaint anachronism.
Londoners are too soft-hearted for a city state, Ken At the beginning of the sublime film Passport to Pimlico, some children manage to detonate a bomb, only to find it reveals a buried chamber where they discover a medieval parchment, a charter that declares Pimlico to be part of Burgundy. So, merrily, the inhabitants declare independence and set up their own duty-free area and their exemption from wartime rationing restrictions and start negotiations with the British government about Pimlico’s privileges.
Volkswagen XL1 spied testing Volkswagen is moving towards limited production of the radical Volkswagen XL1, with undisguised prototypes of the futuristically styled plug-in diesel-electric hybrid caught undergoing cold weather durability tests in Sweden.
Mad Men's wheels of fortune British advertising executives marked their status with a supercar, while their American peers had a more homely, nationalistic bent.
How to design a car, pt 94 Forget your Italian carozzeria, or your Californian styling studios. These creations are the future. If the future somehow turns into a comic book...
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