Serious crash closes road near Exeter Airport
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Auto Car
2 minutes ago
- Auto Car
I test hypercars for a living, but the scariest thing I do is take my £500 Audi for an MOT test
I'd be a hopeless sports coach. I don't just suspect that's the case, I fairly well know it, having spent a season 'managing' the Pear & Partridge FC, my local pub's football team, 20 years ago. Other than a notable 5-4 victory after being 4-0 down at half-time (local newspaper headline: 'Lovely Pear For Comeback Kings' – and yes, I wrote the match report), it wasn't a spell that had Arsène Wenger looking nervously over his shoulder. In partial mitigation, it wasn't unknown for the Pear's star striker to arrive for the match on a Sunday morning with a can of lager in his hand – whether still going strong from the night before or starting afresh that morning, I never quite knew. It wasn't the training or the tactics or team selection that bothered me – these were not high-stakes games – but the stress of watching and hoping. I found it unbearable. I get the same feeling when I drop a vehicle in for its MOT test. Last week it was my motorcycle, but a couple of months ago it was my Audi A2. You can check a vehicle's MOT status online, so at some point during the hour or two my local garage had the car, the website asked me to confirm I'm a human because I had refreshed the page so much to check up on the Audi that the system thought I was some kind of spambot. The nervousness, the anticipation, the feeling of dread. I hate it all. It doesn't matter how much prep or homework I've done: one of my vehicles is going in to be judged and I don't know what the outcome will be. It's the motoring equivalent of Schrödinger's cat. I don't get the same feeling from the family Land Rover, because I don't do any of the work on it. So it must be something about the feeling of being personally assessed. What's weird is that it doesn't really matter: whatever is wrong I can just take home and fix. My job requires that I drive things, so there's usually a car around if I need to go somewhere.
BBC News
33 minutes ago
- BBC News
Number plate and broken scooter sell for £350k in Jersey
A two-digit number plate mounted on a scooter which does not work has sold for £350, J5 plate and scooter were sold at auction by Simon Drieu & Co in Jersey earlier this Drieu said it was the second highest price ever achieved for a number plate in Jersey with the first being £380,000 for the J4 plate which was originally assigned to the Lieutenant Governor's vehicle in June the auctioneers sold J69 for £230,000, the third highest price achieved, he added. Mr Drieu explained all Jersey registration marks belonged to the Inspector of Motor Traffic and when someone bought a number they were purchasing the "Mark Right", which is the right to assign the number to their vehicle. He said the inspector had the ability to recall any number they may choose at any auction house assigns numbers to vehicles of insignificant value because of a law which states all registration marks must be assigned to a vehicle to be sold."Hence J5 was assigned to a non-running scooter of insignificant value," he added.
Auto Car
an hour ago
- Auto Car
Future of camping? We spend a night with Dacia's £2000 sleep pack
If a recently married man tells people he's going to be sleeping in his car that night, concern, it seems, is the immediate reaction. 'No,' I tell them, 'this is for fun.' Little do they know that the Dacia Duster I will be using is fitted with a fold-out bed, a double(ish) mattress and a tent, all of which combine to create a set-up that is poised to turn even the most bougie of Glastonbury glampers a shade of jealous green – especially given the extras cost... £2090! Am I about to experience the future of camping? Is this the camper van killer? We're all about to find out with a night in a New Forest field. In classic fashion, I hit the first obstacle before I've even turned the engine on: there's no boot space. The new Duster has a pretty cavernous 517-litre load space, yet the InNature Sleep Pack Ultimate (to give the fold out bed its official name) takes up the lot. Insert face-palm emoji here. There is some space under the bed's supporting structure, but that's needed for the tent itself. Luckily, though, tonight it's just me – the wife laughed and said 'no thanks' – so my overnight bag, some food and basic survival equipment can go on the back seats. I arrive at my base for the night about 45 minutes later. Despite the extra weight in the back, the Duster doesn't drive any differently, and there's no sign of the economy dropping below the official average of 56mpg. It's about 1pm as I park up. It's clear I've drawn a short campsite straw, because my space has no shady tree coverage and the car's temperature gauge is currently reading 38deg C. No better time to start setting up camp, then…
