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Gone in 20 seconds: Moment thieves steal a car in less than half a minute for £5,000 fee before mocking victims with 'go and buy another one' rant
Two thieves revealed how they can steal a keyless car in less than 20 seconds for a £5,000 fee, before mocking victims in a shameless rant and telling them to 'buy another one'.
World famous Oxford Street to close to cars: Sadiq Khan insists public backs £150m scheme - despite fears it will become crime hotspot
The controversial Mayor - whose knighthood last week sparked fury across the city - vowed to carry out the pedestrianisation scheme 'as quickly as possible'.
Secrets of the keyless car thieves: As an epidemic sweeps Britain, real-life criminals show Channel 4 crew how quick - and easy - it is to steal a £24,000 SUV from a suburban drive just like yours in only 20 seconds
In a brazen display of criminality, a pair of masked car thieves are demonstrating to a TV film crew the ease and speed with which they can steal luxury cars.
'Stealing' your OWN car: How Brits can use trackers and even hire private security to get their vehicles back from thieves instead of waiting for overstretched police to act
Victims, exasperated by the crimewave, now appear to be taking the law into their own hands by hunting down and 'stealing back' their pinched motors.
Terrorists could remotely hijack AI cars to carry out mass attack, UN warns
A new UN report has warned the technology could be weaponised by extremists in allowing malicious actors to seize control of self-driving vehicles.
Locals baffled as mystery green spots appear on street overnight - but what are they for?
Multiple colourful dots appeared on Greville Road in the Southville area of Bristol overnight, with no explanation or reason as to their purpose.
A £2million motorway pileup in Scotland - but no humans were harmed in the dummy crash for TV
The world's biggest car crash test has been filmed at a former military base in Scotland for a new Channel 4 documentary.
Thieves stole my car using a fiendish new device disguised as a Game Boy. So I tracked it down and stole it back myself: ALEX BANNISTER
This is not the Monday morning I had planned. I was meant to be in a business meeting in west London at 9.30.
TV Twix advert is BANNED for encouraging dangerous driving - because it shows long-haired driver crashing his caramel-coloured motor on top of another car
A bizarre Twix advert, released at the end of March, has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for condon[ing] unsafe driving'.
Pensioner furious after being slapped with 'ridiculous' £170 parking fine... but claims there is a big catch
Garth Burden, 80, a former deputy managing editor for the Daily Mail, decided he would wash his car, blissfully unaware he would incur any issues at the Esso Garage in Rickmansworth.
War on motorists continues: Now Oxford council want to impose £5 congestion charge on every car entering the city
Locals have warned that the plans would cripple businesses in Oxford, which have already been hit by a controversial low traffic neighbourhood scheme in the city.
Third time lucky? Our £50k Jeep Wrangler was stolen by keyless car thieves. We loved our wagon so much we bought another only for it to get nicked TEN DAYS later. We won't let that stop us snapping up another
Neurologists Vijeya Ganesan, 57, and Peter Garrard, 64, noticed their two-year-old £47,500 motor had been taken from the road outside their London home of 27 years on Easter Sunday.
Father-son duo 'ghost brokers' scammed drivers out of more than £60,000 by selling worthless car insurance: How to keep yourself safe
Ilyas Rauf charged customers up to £300 for invalid policies, which left drivers facing potential fines and vehicle seizures, while secretly sharing thousands of pounds with his son Amer Ilyas.
Terror of living on 'Britain's most dangerous road': Residents say they are fed up of 'Mad Max' street where there are crashes every week
Locals on the residential road in southeast London compared their street to being like a scene from 'Mad Max' - the movie franchise famous for their high-speed chases.
Britain backs routine, mandatory eye tests for drivers - as one in four road users have not checked their vision in the past two years
Nearly one in four drivers (24 per cent) have not had an eye test in the past two years, a new survey suggests.
