Hot news! Car industry bosses have pulled the plug on the British Motor Show. That’s not the 2010 one, or even next year’s event. It’s the British Motor Show 2012 and the powers-that-be have already decided – if you’ll pardon the pun – that it’s a non-starter. Quietly announcing this news yesterday, when the general [more]

Tags: Birmingham NEC, British Motor Show, ExCel arena, London, motor show, Paris Motor Show

Owning and running a car is a pricey business, but for people who live in rural communities – myself included – life would be very tricky without one. Or even two. City dwellers, with greater public transport options, often find cars a pain to keep. They just sit outside the house for days on end, [more]

Tags: 107, 5008, bike, Boxer van, Bristol, car sharing clubs, London, Peugeot Mu, scooter

Good journalism is about getting the reader involved in what you’re writing, and the way to do this is with a catchy opening sentence that sparks their interest. ‘NXP Semiconductors and IBM today announced the final results of a road-pricing trial conducted in the Netherlands’ is not a good example. I bravely decided to risk [more]

Tags: charges, congestion, driving, Eindhoven, Labour, London, pay-as-you-go