Steve informed us a few weeks ago that it is legal to undertake on
motorways.
This is wrong, it is illegal - this subject was covered in the Whatcar
magazine, also I checked with AA Legal.

A lot of people seem to think the Tories are more likely to favour the
motorist compared to Labour. They might do well to think again.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/01/ntory01.xml
Tories plan 'painful rises' in car and air tax

Some Gumball entrants manage to get a Polizei escort across town.. and have
trouble keeping up!
http://www.racegarden.com/video-show.html?video_id=13
The truck drifting is pretty good too.

Passing thought the other day and just now catching up on replies to my
"young insurance".
On modern test/learning cars are the brakes abs?
Being old I brake as though I'm using "proper" brakes.

Saw an amusing sight on the M4 in S Wales the other day.  A transporter
truck fully loaded with Mercs with the hazards on every car flashing.
I know that there are deceleration sensors on cars which automatically
turn on the hazards if you brake suddenly of stop suddenly some other

I think I've noticed a problem with the signs on the old Severn Bridge - is
it just me?
When you get onto the main span travelling Eastwards, there are two round
red-bordered 50 signs saying '50mph limit in 800m'.

No doubt everyone will have seen the bad news about that horrific 6
vehicle pile up yesterday, M6 J27-J28. I dont know what it is about
that section of the M6 but there seems to be regular bad incidents up
there. Does anyone know if everyone survived it or was there

and I dont mean all of them of course, just a few of them setting a bad
example........
Left the ferry at Cairnryan (from Larne) on Thursday night at 10pm ish. The
A77 was shut due to road works so we had a monster of a diversion to get

From The Scotsman 29th August
Main road to England may become one big speed trap
ALASTAIR DALTON TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT
BRITAIN's longest speed trap could be set up on the main route between

....on the way to the tip last weekend, I made the mistake of not checking
that a bag full of rotten apples was tied up probably by my other half who
was clearing out the garden.  The result was that on the way to the tip,
when I went around the corner, the bag fellover and as ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/5284962.stm
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Discharge for 159mph speeding Pc
A policeman who drove at 159mph on a motorway has been found guilty of