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Yeah, in the old days the car hire company just took a photocopy of your counterpart licence. Which of course was a completely safe way to share your information.

I agree.

Upvoted, it seems most people posting here incorrectly think you are sharing with world + dog. Not so. This is just an online replacement for that messy old green counterpart document that was always lost when you needed it. In rare instances HMG gets e-government right.

Not trolling, how very dare you. Very cold deal means rubbish deal. Too simple to just show your DL card like we've always done. I dont want to be a lemming. No one can be trusted with our personal details these days. The less you give the safer you are imho.

Don't be silly. (lol)

Try driving a motorbike it's really fun

wasn't refering to the speed but... oh well

Heat added, thanks. I has two occasions 3 years ago where my tyre burst due to the pot hole. Didn't know I could claim at that time!!

Nope,Speed limit was 60 I was well within it.......can’t all driver like Sunday dodderers

Cracked my alloys blew my tyre made a complaint show them pictures of potholes didn't get nothing from them waste of time

I've just sent a link of this post across to Guy, may come in useful

I don't get the Americans comment ,. Can you explain, please ? As for, this post is not a deal, fair enough, however it doesn't warrant the 'die quietly' comment , in my opinion anyway

"you've went to far" Why do Americans speak and type English better than English people do on the internet? (lol) Opinions aside, this post is not a deal. I made my point.

I think you've went to far with your 'die quietly' comment.

(lol)

You do know that your so called public transport is subsidised to the hilt!

Fair play. Unfortunately with crap public transport there is no incentive for people to not drive.

May not be ideal for everyone - useful for those who can’t make use of the reduced public transport services during the festive period :) Every little helps! (angel)

That is exactly what I said about subsidies distorting true costs. If car owners are subsidising folks like me, then I agree that isn't right. At the same time, raising council taxes just because property prices went up also doesn't make sense. The reality is that the tax system is badly broken and no politician has the courage to fix it, unless he / she has no plans to stand for election later.

Cold. Shouldn't be encouraging people to use their cars.

Insulting ones intelligence is one thing, calling someone who “pays” his taxes an idiot I suggest you look up the definition in the Oxford dictionary. obviously you need to remove the vehicle off the road hence the reason for SORN’ing the car

I doubt any of us are if you live in America.

I found this very helpful this week as my car failed it's MOT. I could look this up and see all the details before getting back to the garage, Also garages are notorious for not calling when they have finished with your car. The MOT updates as soon as it is done so I could check online and find out if it was done or not.

(popcorn)

*Sigh* This can only be used by the dealer who registered the vehicle in the first place and MUST be received within 7 days of the registration taking place. Try again Freeman.

I applied for mine the day I posted the deal. I have received a letter the other day off SSE to say it’s being processed and I should look out for the letter with the voucher. Also if I wanted to have it put on my gas account to ring them up on the day to get it switched which is what I’ll do as these cold nights are costing a fortune in gas x

A lot of people aren't aware of what sort of things they are entitled to,so heat added for letting folks know about this

first utility still cant apply what a joke

My mum received her payment this week. EDF is supplier. Tariff ends in November and can't see anything decent.

Noticed Ovo applications appear to be open today

Here are all locations. Scroll to the bottom of the page: https://www.cycleconfident.com/courses/dr-bike/

Good old Brent. You can always jump over the border to Barnet, they don't ask where you are from etc, for a service.

Anyone know if it's near Croydon as I can not see it on line anywhere as I have a trycycle as I can not walk to far

Portsmouth: https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/ext/travel/cycling-around-portsmouth

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Local-Business/Dr-Bike-at-Luton-Station-1664661786995691/

Not all houses have gable ends, plus insulation will fill the cavity and just with a cavity surely there would be more chance of water ingress unless you have internal tray to drive the water out through weep holes in the brick. Theres probably cracking in your wall somewhere else thats causing a leak, instead of googling get a good builder to undertake an inspection and i am sure you will be surprised.

Really, I thought all disability was visible. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Do you actually know people who are fraudulently claiming DLA? If so, please report them. Or are you just making a sweeping statement backed up by nothing? There are such things as invisible disabilities. Not everyone who is classed as disabled is in a wheelchair.

I meant the "home service" cover plans, which will gladly take somebody's £10/20 a month for boiler breakdown cover for an old back-boiler. When the boiler breaks down they will say the part isn't available and it "must" be replaced. The average customer will unfortunately believe this and YES I definitely agree people really do need to know that they can just call a reputable heating/boiler/gas engineer who will usually happily use an aftermarket part to keep an otherwise reliably boiler running. The cover plans are usually a waste of money on older boilers, they are only good for the annual service, which would be cheaper to just buy separately.

Really sorry to hear of your experience. Sounds very much you had a cowboy company and then cowboys trying to sort it out. benefits. It should have been fixed by the original fitters or you should consider taking them to the small claims court. If anyone is in a similar situation with DAMP after cavity wall insulation, consider a roof under-tray and gable-end re-done at the same time as it is a much cheaper solution plus keeps the energy efficiency.

True. But for hypothetical sense it’s 50%. There are no terms and conditions except you just top up the account each month and don’t withdraw it

It's not 50% interest as it's over 4 years and it's not free money, it's a bonus that's received by following the terms and conditions over four years. It's still a cracking deal.I'm just being pedantic

Now that's a good idea :D

Yes correct. Leave it untouched to get the maximum return (a whopping 50%!) Yes your correct - you have to leave the original amount in after 2 years - for another 2 years - to get the maximum. End of year 2 free money: £600 End of year 4 free money £600. Total amount: £600 free paid to you at year 2. £600 free paid to you at year 4 - plus investment of £2400 = £3000. I qualified, along with my partner. So... £1200 free money at end of year 2. £6000 (includes £1200 free)) at end of year 4.

I don't qualify, but a few relatives do so I'm helping them sign up. To get the maximum benefit in 2 years you'd have to leave it untouched though right? Also intially I thought at the end of 2 years they would be able to take the nest egg and start dripping money into the 2nd phase.. I guess that won't work. Not so bad though as 50% of the investment up til then will be returned.

If both Parents are employed you can apply for childcare vouchers now, you don’t have to wait till your child starts nursery, just speak to yours and your partners employers to join the scheme. Vouchers give you more money than TFC (only a bit) and you can use them to pay for after & before school clubs whereas TFC stops the moment they leave nursery for school.... another sneaky cost cut by the conservatives (annoyed)

I’m not sure if you are having a dig at the original post or the comment on it from grex9101. But if it’s the former, just letting you know you can get help through tax free childcare scheme so long as neither you or your partner earn over £100,000 per year.

Under labour everyone got 15 hours free childcare 52 weeks a year for children over the age of 2. The conservatives scrapped this and parents got nothing for years until they offered 30 hours childcare for 3 years however this is only term time which amounts to just 38 weeks and it only starts from the term after their 3rd birthday so if you toddler turns 3 mid September you’ll have to wait till the next term to qualify so you get even less. The reality is this, it costs £775 for my 1 year old to stay in nursery 5 days a week and with the 30 hours discount it costs £467 for my 3 year old. We also get 20% off the total thanks to the TFC scheme so the total bill is £993 a month. My wife earns minimum wage which is about £1130 a month so she makes just £130 a month, she also doesn’t get sick pay. For these reasons she’s not going back to work. Fortunately I can support my family as I earn plenty however I’ve no idea how 2 adults on a low wage can survive. We live in an incredibly expensive country and those who complain about spongers need to get a calculator out and stop reading the “headline”.

I was reading it then thinking, we work full time so i bet it wont apply to us (mad)

The cut of date is in October but most employers have a cut off date of about 1 month in advance, depending on payroll date. Mine had it for first week of September as it takes some time to contact the relevant provider. My OH was on maternity leave when the deadline was back in April and her employer offered to pay £1 a month until she joined payroll again so she could join the scheme. I think the old scheme is better but it depends on the circumstances of each family.

MOT testers don't remove anything from your car, certainly not wheels. They don't even remove kids car seats, that's why if you have a kids seat in they will do an advisory saying they couldn't check the seat belt. They should only be checking the things they can see.

You can check the MOT of any car via Alexa / Echo.

BTW I know this website from around 2 years , what is new here?

someone must drive loads on reverse gear ;-)

I use the Knowyourcar app. Similar thing.