Industry News
From our London office
Published Friday, September 25th 2009
A special two-part report this week from Bankstone News’ London Bureau. Part one (you’re reading it) is in hackles-well-and-truly raised mode over the latest motor-vehicle-related slur on the capi...
Who, me guvner?
Published Friday, September 25th 2009
Want to know what really winds us up here at Bankstone News’ London regional office? Do you? No? Shame that; we’re gonna tell you anyway.
Press releases, that’s only what! Maundering, mealy-m...
Call that a deterrent?
Published Friday, September 18th 2009
Direct Line has been in the news taking a high-profile stand against meaningless fines for uninsured young drivers.
What is the bloomin’ point – the comparison-averse insurer asks – of fining...
BIBA modest over crackdown role
Published Friday, September 18th 2009
Fashion house BIBA has welcomed the Department for Transport’s “tough new plans” for cracking down on uninsured vehicles – due to come into force next year.
Under the proposals motorists ca...
RAC bemoans driver inattention
Published Friday, September 18th 2009
Traditional pastimes like observing the road, braking, steering and signalling are rapidly falling out of favour as drivers turn to new distractions. So claims the RAC’s annual Thumbnail report.
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Verbal hostilities over TPI
Published Friday, September 18th 2009
People are people, so why should it be (pause) you and I should get along so awfully? So pondered vaguely-pervy Essex electro-dweebs Depeche Mode back in 1984.
As clumsy as this earnest rhetoricism...
Messy eater's heart of gold
Published Friday, September 11th 2009
Having publicly scorned the polite conventions of dinner-table etiquette, Admiral Henry Engelhardt may now find supper invitations drying up.
“There’s food on the table every night, it’s true...
AA frets over freeflowing thoroughfares threat
Published Friday, September 11th 2009
Weekday jams are a thing of the past according to research by Trafficmaster and Alcoholics Anonymous. Waxing poetastical, their joint press release proclaims that “Britain’s road network is wearin...
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