Well, in a word – NO. The government will not cover any of the medical costs that you might incur on holiday. So when you go off on your much-deserved holidays, it’s entirely down to you to ensure that you have adequate cover in the unlikely event of coming unstuck. So either get some insurance or stay off the slopes/tequila slammers.   Everyone knows that you need cover when you’re away though, right? Not so. Read more…

As you can now rent cars by the hour, should this be, like other car-related green schemes, tax deductible?  It may not be something that would trouble James Bond, I would imagine he’d get a lovely lady to do his. But for the rest of us, Taxes are always going to happen, why can’t we get a break on green issues? The phenomenon of the hire car facility run by companies such as Streetcar/Zipcar is Read more…

With the government’s plans announced in the budget that from 2009 they are going to raise the cost of car tax for all cars that were made after 2001 fresh in everyone’s minds, the plans have come under fire by that most vitriolic of groups, the Backbencher in a committee, for being ‘too lenient’ and would ‘have limited impact on the environment.’ Serious words. So, what are these new rules, how will it affect us Read more…

Is the Government barking up the wrong tree? Car sharing lanes are, in principal, an excellent idea. They are a concept already established in other parts of the world, namely the United States, Australia and parts of Europe. And now they are gradually being introduced in Britain, albeit on an ad-hoc basis. In Leeds a car sharing lane has been operational for some time, and there are now lanes appearing in Birmingham and on a Read more…