The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Tom Conti and the Lord Lucas launch the Motorists Legal Challenge Fund … Britain’s motorists encouraged to join the fight. ... the Court case that could lead to £millions of parking tickets being cancelled. Movie star Tom Conti, and Lord Lucas of Dingwall and Crudwell are leading the charge to raise a fighting fund initially for a court challenge to parking tickets and to then include legal challenges...
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
TrueDelta has released the August results of its Vehicle Reliability Survey. Among the models surveyed: the 2009 Nissan Murano, 2009 Jaguar XF, 2008 smart fortwo (no caps) and 2008 Saturn ASTRA (all caps). The Murano follows the Rogue in requiring fewer repairs in its first few months than Nissan's previous redesigns. The smart requires more [...]
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Before setting off on a 2000 mile roadtrip around the Great American Southwest in a loaner Jaguar XF, my co-driver and I commented, "We are taking a brand new, unproven, Jaguar, across barren deserts and across mountain passes, through blowing dust and drifting snow, and the nearest Jaguar dealership lies over 300 miles away. [...]
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Before setting off on a 2000 mile roadtrip around the Great American Southwest in a loaner Jaguar XF, my co-driver and I commented, "We are taking a brand new, unproven, Jaguar, across barren deserts and across mountain passes, through blowing dust and drifting snow, and the nearest Jaguar dealership lies over 300 miles away. [...]
PM (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
iPM is looking at this tomorrow. Lord Lucas will be one of the guests. He chairs the London Motorist Action Group. You can hear a bit of our interview with him tonight. If you have some experience of how councils...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/02/2008
It is legalised profiteering. It's very much like the systems of tax collections that one reads about in books from the Middle Ages. There is no effective control on what many of these bailiffs are charging. With parking fines, local councils seem to have abdicated all sense of responsibility and resort to bailiffs in what is little more than a money-making exercise.
