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Motorists Tricked By New Insurance Scam

By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Thousands of motorists are unknowingly driving around without insurance after fraudsters have sold fake policies. This is known as ‘ghost broking’ and detectives have noticed a growing number of cases where motorists have been tricked into buying these fake policies. Most drivers are unaware that the policy isn’t real and provides no cover until they try to […]

Speed Camera Blog

Speed Cameras Catch More Than Your Speed

By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice As we all know, polices forces across the UK are regularly using mobile speed camera vans to catch speeding motorists, but did you know they also use them to snap drivers either not wearing their seatbelts, or on the mobile phones whilst behind the wheel. Over a third, (16 out of 44) of the UK’s forces said […]

A very large pothole with a pool of dirty water inside it, deep in the surface of a road.

More Funding Needed For Local Roads

By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive The Local Government Association (LGA), who represent 349 English councils, want the Government to spend more money on England’s local roads when it was relieved that motorways and major truck roads receive 52 times more central funding per mile. The Association wants the Government to decrease the inequality so its members can tackle the £12 billion bill to repair local roads […]

No Plans To Change New Cars MOT

By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive The Department of Transport has confirmed that a new car’s first MOT test will stay at three years. Last year it a public consultation was announced to gauge the opinion about extending cars first roadworthiness test to 4 years a change which would then be implemented this year (2018). However, fewer than half of the public consulted voted […]

The Donna Louise Challenges

By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Last year we organised multiple fundraising events working alongside The Donna Louise Children’s Hospice hoping to raise as much money as possible for the charity. This year is no different and The Donna Louise has already contacted us with a list of ‘challenges’ that our staff can take part in with the hope of raising […]

Two cliffs, one stating 2017 and the other 2018; a silhouette of a man can be seen jumping from the former to the latter.

A Look Back At 2017

By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice We hope that your 2017 was full of joy and happy memories and that 2018 will be no different! Here at Connect Insurance we’ve had a great year, so we thought why not take a look back at some of the best bits. New Insurance Products 2017 has been an exciting year for launching our […]

Merry Christmas From Connect!

By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Today is our last full day until the New Year. From all of us at Connect we would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers, partner and associates for their continued support over the last year. We hope you all have a safe and happy Christmas full of laugher and joy. We will […]

Tailbacks of traffic along a heavily snowed over road; snowbanks line the sides, with snow covered trees overhanging.

Winter Driving Essentials For Your Car

By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive Even when a few inches of snow falls in the UK the whole nation seems to come to a standstill. This week was no exception to that and the cold winter weather meant that the snow has stuck around, leaving many drivers across the country trapped in the snow. Snow storms can be unexpected and […]

Christmas Opening Times

By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive Christmas is the time for relaxing and spending time with family and loved ones. We appreciate that insurance is probably the last thing you’ll want to deal with around this festive time, but if you do need to contact us over the christmas period then please take note of our opening times. From all of […]

A staff photo of some of the members of the team, taken for Children In Need.

Children In Need

By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Here at Connect Insurance we are always interested in raising money for charity and this year is no different. Earlier in the year we were heavily involved with Donna Louise and raised over £1000 for the charity, to find out more about this please see our earlier blog here. As you can see from the image above we decided to have a dress […]