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Parking fines hit £30 per month

BRITISH motorists pay more than £30 million each month in parking fines, figures suggest. More tickets are being issued this year by councils than last year and there has been a 13% rise in fines issued on a Sunday, according to data obtained by LV=. The car insurer calculated councils have handed out more than 890,000 parking fines per month in 2013 - a 4% increase on 2012 figures - and, based on an average amount of £42 per ticket and excluding any successful appeals, drivers are now paying in excess of £30 million each month.

Stealth Approach For Latest Range Rover Sport

LAND ROVER has unveiled a new addition to its Range Rover Sport line-up. The firm has added a ‘Stealth Pack’ option for buyers of the HSE Dynamic and Autobiography Dynamic variants. Making its debut at the forthcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Range Rover Sport Stealth Pack features a satin black front grille and grille surround, fog lamp bezels, bonnet and bumper vents, upper mirror caps and tailgate finisher.

Online driving licence to reduce insurance costs

First the tax disc, now your driving licence, as government plans to put driving records online are set to make the paper counterpart licence obsolete – reducing your car insurance premium in the process. By creating an online record that insurance companies can easily check, ministers and the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA) expect insurance costs to fall, as insurers will be able to exactly analyse risk rather than hedging their bets. On Bing: see pictures of the counterpart driving licence Tax disc to be scrapped after 93 years At present it’s tediously time consuming for car insurance companies to check motorists’ driving records with the DVLA, which means most take people at their word about the number of penalty points they have.