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Drivers hit with second month of pump price rises
New figures by the RAC show higher wholesale costs meant both petrol and diesel prices rose for the second consecutive month, last month with petrol...
Service Update – PetrolPrices.com
Many of you will have noticed that on Sunday 7th April PetrolPrices completely changed its branding, website and app. The primary goal...
PetrolPrices relaunches apps, new brand and more!
You may have noticed over the last few months, we’ve gone quite quiet on changes, updates and telling you about what we’ve been doing....
Police catch four speeders a minute, one county reported 416% increase
Throughout the UK, just over four people are caught speeding every minute – or around 6,000 every day. Avon and Somerset police top the...
Potholes are worse than ever, government pumps more money in
The hazards potholes create are well-known to motorists and cyclists; damage to your car or bike and an uncomfortable or dangerous ride....
Drivers to be paid “cash not to drive” in new UK pilot scheme
It seems that we’re getting used to reporting on councils looking to motorists to bridge the gap in their funding, but a new scheme, the first of...
Brexit go slow drivers causing traffic chaos are prosecuted
Brexit Protest and Direct Action Group (BDA), outraged by Prime Minister Theresa May’s negotiations, organised a series of ‘go slow’...
Intelligent speed limiters may not be safe to use yet claim motoring experts
While the chaos surrounding Brexit continues on, the European Commission is pushing out regulations continuously, and the latest one...
Jaguar Land Rover recall 44,000 vehicles over emissions
It never rains but it pours … and Jaguar Land Rover must be breaking out their Sou’westers right about now; in January of this year,...
In-car monitoring systems will follow your every move soon
With well over 6 million CCTV cameras in the UK, we Brits are accustomed to being watched. This is even more obvious when you’re a...
Sainsbury’s commit to fuel price cap if they merge
The proposed Sainsbury's and Asda merger has been around for just under a year now, and on Tuesday 19th March they released a joint...
Parking charge increases are another stealth tax on the motorist
£2,400,000, £2.4m, two million four hundred thousand … however you write it, it’s not an insignificant number, and yet that’s how much...
Fuel prices on the rise once more, according to RAC
Drivers across Britain have enjoyed lower fuel prices for three months in a row because of price reductions across the UK’s filling...
Driving with loud music could now get you a £100 fine
With more and more cars getting high tech sound systems, hearing loud music while driving has become a daily occurrence for most people....
Britons are overcharged £300 million a year on financing cars
A shocking investigation by a British watchdog has discovered that car dealers are manipulating customers’ interest payments to earn...
Half of used cars have a hidden history, warns RAC
A study using data from the RAC’s Vehicle History Check service, covering more than 32,000 vehicles has shown that over half (52%) of...
Volvo limit top speed of all new cars to try and stop deaths
On Monday (4th March,) Volvo announced plans to limit all cars manufactured from 2020 onwards to a max speed of 112mph. This is part of...
You could soon get a £50 fine for doing the school run
Last May, PetrolPrices wrote about how clean air campaigners wanted to ban the car-based school run. With figures showing that a quarter...
Latest diesels aren’t actually that dirty, new tests show
This is the tale of conflicting opinions, misinformation, financial burden and innovation; no, not the plot from the latest blockbuster,...
Tax it or lose it as DVLA reinforces its policies
New DVLA stats released earlier in the week show that over 460,000 vehicles in 11 cities nationwide are clamped or fined yearly for...
70% of drivers don’t know what to do when they see this sign
We’re sure that most of our readers have heard the legend of Hackney Carriages having to carry a bale of hay and some oats for their...
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