The Institute for Public Policy Research also argued that typical energy bills should be capped at £2,000, with tax raids on energy firms, banks and private air travel to help pay for the measure.

Lucy Barnard, 26, was driving back to her house on Walney Island in Cumbria, when she suddenly heard a rattling sound after her Ford Fiesta hit a pothole.

Ministers last month announced councils who perform badly at fixing pock-marked local roads would have cash withheld in a bid to drive up the numbers being filled in.

The Green Party is famously opposed to gas-guzzling 4x4s - especially diesels - polluting our cities and have vowed to ban them sooner than any other party.

Paying for parking by phone might have ended the scrounge beneath the seats for change, but it has been replaced with the agonising search for signal.

The Discovery 4x4 was submerged at around 10am on Main Beach in Absersoch, North Wales, a resort dubbed 'Chesire-on-Sea' for its wealthy visitors.

Ministers have admitted they are 'looking into' and 'carefully considering' the findings of a trial in which a council was allowed to hike parking tickets to an eye-watering £160.

Figures obtained by the Daily Mail show drivers launched at least 107,202 appeals against tickets issued by hundreds of private parking firms in 2025.

The Chancellor was publicly humiliated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which found in a study that margins at the pumps were 'broadly unchanged' since the conflict started.

Analysis has found the extra amount motorists have shelled out since the conflict sent forecourt prices rocketing will surge past the grim milestone by tomorrow night.

The bizarre road markings are only one or two stripes across the controversial, expensive cycle path lead to a floating bus stop.

A driverless Waymo taxi being tested in London ploughed into a taped-off crime scene on Wednesday evening, but the firm insisted it was under human control at the time.

Brits filling their tanks more often was largely responsible for a 0.7 per cent surge in retail sales in March.

Last year, councils across Britain paid out nearly £20 million - a 30 per cent increase over the previous year - to replace tyres, alloys and suspension that were mangled by crumbling roads.

The 68-metre Cockcrow Bridge spans the A3 near Cobham and is covered in heather and shrubs to provide a safe route for wildlife.