Tech and Auto
Reported grooming crimes leap up to record high
Children’s charity the NSPCC said police recorded 4,373 offences of sexual communication with a child in the year to April 2019.
£400m funding boost for electric car charging
The scheme is being funded equally by taxpayers and private investors.
Man spent nearly £30,000 fighting & losing £100 speeding fine battle – blowing his sons’ inheritance in quest for ‘justice’
Richard Keedwell, 71, spent years battling the ticket after claiming he was wrongly clocked doing 35mph in a 30mph zone in Worcester in 2016
Policeman’s tearful daughter admitted going on drunken rampage behind wheel of his vintage London taxi
Emma Whelan, 23, stole the keys to her father's 'priceless' blue London taxi while she was nearly three times over the legal driving limit.
Faulty batteries among common flaws in popular cars
Which? identified the car with the highest breakdown rate.
Family “ripped apart” by death of father & daughter caused by uninsured teenage driver who smashed into them at 113mph
Mario Dzhambazov, 18, crashed into the Hyundai i30 that 68-year-old Michael Liddell and his daughter Sarah were travelling in, killing Mr Liddell instantly
MPs want national ban on car parking on pavements
The transport committee said antisocial parking practises were leaving vulnerable people ‘afraid to leave their homes’.
Bungling burglar who stole Maserati caught after crashing into ten parked cars as he made getaway
Professional burglar Ronald Coombes, 39, was also jailed for stealing the name sign from Warwick Crown Court as a memento
Florida man parks his Smart car in kitchen to stop it blowing away in hurricane
Patrick Eldridge wanted to protect his car from the storms that have hit the American coast.