Oops, they did it again...

7:52am Friday 16th May 2008

THIS week,you'll have to do without my usual carefully constructed prose: I need to let off steam.

The sirens' song

9:14am Friday 9th May 2008

SOME time ago I decided to change radio stations for my drive to work.

Smile! You're on lollycam...

8:59am Friday 2nd May 2008

MY favourite motoring story of the week is funny and sad at the same time.

The ins and outs of lorries overtaking

12:03pm Friday 25th April 2008

I FELT a pang of guilt reading about the idea of banning lorries from overtaking on parts of the A12.

Are you insured?

11:45am Friday 18th April 2008

I'VE got a very outdated view of the insurance industry.

Don't get angry, but...

9:43am Friday 11th April 2008

I WAS feeling a bit grouchy last week.

Parking: How to make our voices heard

10:20am Friday 4th April 2008

BY now I'm sure you've read about plans to shake up the parking enforcement system.

Once an idiot, always an idiot?

9:39am Friday 28th March 2008

WE'VE all, by now, heard about the claims Jeremy Clarkson was spotted using a mobile phone while driving.

White Van Man - is it goodbye?

7:10am Friday 14th March 2008

THERE was good visual gag on Top Gear many years ago – I'm thinking of the early Nineties here.

Taxi!

7:24am Friday 29th February 2008

I've often thought (dangerous territory, this) of writing a column attacking taxi drivers.

Who's a bad influence on who?

9:58am Friday 22nd February 2008

THERE are a couple of phrases I bet any parents reading this will be familiar with.

Carbon claptrap?

1:19am Tuesday 19th February 2008

A FEW months ago, a report was widely quoted about the "true" carbon emissions of a car.

Danger, men at work

12:27pm Friday 8th February 2008

A FEW weeks ago, I wrote about the A12 heroes – the courageous road workers who toil away inches from traffic whizzing past at 70mph or more.

The Life on Mars cars

8:53am Friday 1st February 2008

LIFE on Mars, as I'm sure you know, is now no longer just one of the best David Bowie songs, but also a hugely successful Seventies-style cop show.

Is your car for 'sail'?

8:29am Friday 25th January 2008

WHO'D have thought it? A ship that's powered, not by massive engines... but by a big sail, which takes advantage of the wind's energy.

It's a man thing... or is it?

3:26pm Friday 18th January 2008

CARS have changed a lots in the last few decades. But one think has remained consistent: The only form of in-car entertainment you can enjoy while you're driving is listening to the radio.

Should death crash drivers go to jail?

8:04am Friday 11th January 2008

THERE'S a debate going on which I hope will never directly affect you or I.

Now for my 2008 resolutions...

5:58pm Friday 4th January 2008

HAVING got everything I wanted for Christmas it's time to repay the favour by committing myself to some worthwhile motoring resolutions.

Can you tell what it is yet?

12:13am Friday 28th December 2007

AS a teenager I could happily fritter away a couple of hours poring over a car magazine.

The A12's dual-carriageway daredevils

7:19am Monday 17th December 2007

HAVE you ever seen the famous photograph of construction workers eating their lunch, sitting on a girder hundreds of feet above New York?

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