By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Motorists in the most polluted areas of the UK could now be charged for driving into town centres after a judge ordered the Environment Secretary to take more serious action to clean up the air pollution. The government has lost its third High Court defeat in three years against environmental Secretary Client Earth. They have been told that there plans to […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive The Government introduced a new three band system for new cars in 2017; however it will be now that many drivers who bought new last year will see the second year charges apply to them for the first time. Drivers have been advised that the new rules will be “challenging” and that it is going to be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]