Drivers and their problems

We will never catch those pesky shoplifters now. What a waste of police time. 

Nuisance motorists involved in Bedfordshire car meets could have cars seized, police chief warns

The warning has come from the Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye

https://www.bedfordshirelive.co.uk/news/bedfordshire-news/nuisance-motor...

Add to "men standing next to pot holes", no wait 

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23694631.dorset-council-accused-c...

And you are trying to please these people why?

Paignton Golden Mile 'still a mess' despite return of cars

“This is once again an absolute mess. We don’t have what we asked for, or what we were promised."

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/paignton-golden-mile-still-mes...

Epic fail as 4x4 tries ambitious three-point turn on cliff path

No-one knows how or why the car ended up on the pavement in Cornwall

https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/epic-fail-4x4-tries-ambitio...

The great car insurance con: Premiums soar to record high as prices hiked 50% in a year

According to James Daley, managing director of the consumer group Fairer Finance...

“Premiums have been driven up by two main factors – inflation and changes to regulation. The cost of car repairs and car parts has risen just like everything else over the past year – as has the cost of personal injury claims. All of this pushes up the cost of insurance,” he said.

The growing number of electric vehicles may be playing a part too, as repairs to these can be a lot higher than to a standard car. The insurer LV added that “new high-tech vehicles equipped with sensors, cameras and high-voltage systems are raising the cost of replacement parts and also require specialist labour to fit”.

drivers and their problems 

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Driver crashes wheel through parked car's window in baffling images

You can't park there, mate

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wheel-throug...

Genre Classic:

Godstone 'road rage' row between Audi and BMW drivers investigated by police

Police are appealing for anyone who saw what happened on the A22 to come forward

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/godstone-road-rage-row-betw...

You can't have any sleep at night because cars:

Exeter residents living next to 'noisy' major development are now enduring sleepless nights from roadworks

Developer Watkin Jones has told DevonLive that the completion date for The Gorge is August 31, and that roadworks will take place between 8pm and 2am. They added that also due to the location of the works and the high volume of traffic, they have no other option but to close the highway overnight.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-residents-living-next-n...

Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring could see free parking axed

New excuse for cheap/free parking unlocked - a fair bit of gymnastics going on for Cllr Capozzi here:

"...because people are using those places for wellbeing, they should be some of the last to be charged," she said. The Liberal Democrat councillor added "when you see the amount of people who use, for example, the skate park", free parking becomes an issue of "losing access" to affordable exercise."

https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/hemel-hem...

Paignton Zoo visitors left 'hot, angry and frustrated' by long queues

And that's not the animals, that's the drivers. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/paignton-zoo-visitors-left-hot...

This letter has cut me in two

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23722765.letter-why-spending-2...

(This is Winchester, btw, Aka Chelsea, Hants) 

Good to see the council is battling on with this 

Cornwall Council faces legal battle as restarted road scheme is 'bad for business'

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-faces-l...

"Late again, Smith, what's the excuse this time?"

Great pictures, but the story doesn't quite add up for me.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-terrified-after-find...

More unfortunate goings-on - comments on this story have it right.

Dad with heart condition 'abandoned' in pitch black car park

Darren Williams said he joined breakdown firm after his car broke down - but claimed they gave him wrong information about costs to get home leaving him stranded for hours in desolate country park

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dad-heart-condition-abandoned-...

Clevedon : "We will fight tooth and nail for our seafront parking"

*Camper vans join in*

"Not like that!!"

Anger as tourists in campervans take over seafront parking spaces

Holidaymakers are taking advantage of a lack of parking restrictions on evenings and Sundays

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/anger-tourists-camperv...

see also: I can't remember what role Clevedon Town Council played in the seafront thing, but WTAF 

Somerset folk can't access numerous public areas after insurers dump council

Access to allotments, tennis courts, and a park is now 'strictly forbidden' (situation resolved by Friday) 

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-folk-cant-acc...

Angered Hertford residents slam footway works set to close street from vehicle access and 'trapping disabled people'

Residents will be forced to move their vehicles 30 minutes before the works begin every day at 7.30am

https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/angered-h...