Legendary motorcycle speedway racer Barry Briggs MBE is in the UK to promote his recently launched book ‘Wembley and Beyond’, a revealing story of the life and times of speedway’s most colourful superstar. With six successive British speedway titles and four World titles with his last individual Championship coming in 1966, Briggs is one of the most successful speedway riders in history, but it is his life beyond the race track which is the focus of his latest book and tells a story of adventure, courage and heartache. ‘Wembley and Beyond’ is not just the memoirs of a legendary speedway rider but also of a remarkable man.

From diamond mining in Africa, to looking down the barrel of an AK-47, Barry Briggs has experienced remarkable adventures that have often eclipsed his daring exploits on the race track. These adventures have earned and lost him $43 million in 24 hours, a son that faced paralysis, and the agonising experience of a wife dying of cancer.

Barry’s life has crossed paths with legends of entertainment, Evel Knievel, and Steve McQueen who he taught to slide a motorbike and a special relationship with Bernie Ecclestone and the tail of how Barry almost became a promoter of an F1 event in Las Vegas.

As twice runner up for the coveted BBC Sports Personality of the Year award Barry has been at the forefront of the British sporting landscape and was awarded an MBE for his services to motorsport in 1973.

Barry Briggs said, “Speedway has given me an incredible life and writing this book has been an enriching experience and given me the chance to put down the memoires of my life, including my amazing adventures above and beyond speedway. Through my experiences of a son facing paralysis and my wife’s battle with cancer I hope that by sharing these personal events I can help others struggling to cope with these circumstances.”

‘Wembley and Beyond’ is available for purchase now from Amazon.co.uk.

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Renault decided to build the new electric model at Valladolid as part of the agreement that will keep the plant open and help aid mass market expansion of electric vehicles.

The new electric car will have an ecological motor starting on the production line in 2012 and a more traditional line will be produced at the plant beginning in 2013.

Industry Minister of Spain Miguel Sebastian stated that the new electric car plan assures that Valladolid will stay open for the next ten years with a €500 million investment over the coming four years in the area.

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The man, David Lee aged 45, received post from the DVLA on Friday that stated he had received six penalty points and an additional £50 fine for driving without insurance in the town of Southampton.

However, Lee who is registered as disabled, claims that he has never operated a motor vehicle in that town and that this is the second instance in which he was mistaken for a Reading man who has identical credentials.

Previously Lee had his disability benefits temporally stopped in 1993 because the other man with his details was claiming benefits as well as they had the same national insurance number.

According to bosses of social security the mix up was one in a million but now Lee is in the same position only with a different agency.

The DVLA told Lee that his licence will be suspended if he does not pay the fine, even though he has already told the police and the DVLA about the dilemma.

Lee stated that he is frustrated with the situation and that he is scared to stay in his own home because the police may appear to arrest him for something that the other man has done.

A DVLA spokesman stated that they could not comment on the case but admitted that the court may have received the wrong information.

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Protecting passengers has been a long term aim in which Mercedes takes pride However, this delicate and subtle protection of passengers has been elevated to higher levels in the latest Mercedes-Benz E-Guard.

The E-Guard, derived from the standard E-Class, is the newest add-on to the company’s armoured vehicle range. It has been equipped with more and improved security components

In a Mercedes the body armour is fixed into the chassis, the floor will stop a blast, the tyres are 17 inch and will run flat, and the windows are made of polyethylene carbonate, bulletproof.

The vehicle looks almost the same as a regular E-Class, and so the E-Guard becomes less attractive to car thieves and possible murderers in some of the world’s more hostile neighbourhoods. A singular air suspension (Level II), will handle the extra load, regular engines used in the E500, E3DI and E350 models haul the additional load.

Mercedes expects buyers to pay an additional €10,000 reward for the armoured E-Guard. Mercedes believes that the extra safety makes this money well spent.

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This scam, which is illegal, has become more popular in light of the economic downtown, and is hurting the insurance industry according to figures that were released today.

While most think of it as a ‘tiny white lie’ prompting the high number of offenders, it is actually a serious offence that is referred to by insurance companies as fronting.

Over the past two years the amount of fronting cases have almost doubled as drivers who need to save money have looked into drastic ways that they can reduce their monthly premiums.  Ironically, as this action is actually insurance fraud it is tacking on average another £30 to the policies of drivers who do have properly issued insurance.

Insurers believe that up to 36,000 parents may participate in the fraud according to a survey and research completed by the Motor Insurance Bureau and Aviva.

Fronting is actually defined as an instance in which an older and more experienced driver is listed as the main driver of a vehicle, although the car actually belongs to a higher risk and younger driver that is only listed as a named driver on the insurance premium.

By listing the younger driver as a partner or spouse parents can knock down the overall costs of insurance even more.

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Are you under the impression that taking public transport over driving your car lowers the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that you create?

You may be surprised to find that taking public transport has a lot of hidden emissions that increase the ‘tailpipe tally’ which is calculated by the amount of fossil fuels used on a journey.

A study was undertaken by Environmental Engineers, Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath at the University of California at Davis in which they calculated the ‘tailpipe tally’ to get a clear view of the environmental costs of transport.

Their paper is published in the Environmental Research Letters, of Britain’s Institute of Physics Journal. They based their research on United States lifestyles and technologies.

To test automobile performance they used a Toyota Camry Saloon, Chevrolet trailblazer SUV and the Ford F-150. For aircraft testing they tested the Boeing 747 and 737 and the Embraer 147 for different aircraft benchmarks.

It may be more environmentally sound to drive a SUV into a city rather then take the train, you need to factor into the journey the amount of occupied seats and the carbon cost of the train or SUV.

The use of fuels to generate energy to power trains can change the carbon output dramatically. The Boston metro system uses 82% of fossil fuels to power their trains, whereas the San Francisco metro system only gains 49% of their electricity from fossil fuels. The ‘tailpipe tally’ does not take into account the emissions released from transport buildings or their maintenance.

Another factor not considered when adding up the numbers to see which mode of transport releases the higher amount of gas emissions, is the seat occupancy. A saloon or four-wheel-drive that is fully occupied releases less gas emissions per travelled kilometre then a train that is only occupied at a quarter.

Once you have a full understanding of the environmental cost of each different transport you should be able to make an environmentally sound decision on which type of transport you should invest in at which time.

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They have set up a series of fake car crash scenes, complete with smashed up cars and “dead bodies” intended to highlight the consequences of driving while drunk.

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The motoring institution says that police are pulling people over to check if they are driving with a viable licence and are then subject to scrutiny about their identity. Not that these members of the motoring public are convicts on the run, simply that police number plate recognition technology is wrongly identifying the vehicles ID.

The AA say they are receiving approximately 20 calls a week from various police authorities asking for confirmation of insurance as quite often these drivers with mistaken identity and a genuine licence actually do not have insurance.

This techno slip is proving to be pretty successful in inadvertently catching those on the roads without proper insurance.

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Under the new scheme, the region will be one of the first to premier a greener way to travel by vehicle.  The idea behind the transportation concept is to have only hydrogen fuel powered cars on the M4 by the close of 2015, which will only emit water vapour instead of carbon emissions.

In fact, Wales has already been chosen as a LCEA or Low Carbon Economic Area for low-carbon fuel and hydrogen technologies that are under development, such as bio-methane and natural gas.

Soon with the new link, South Wales will bring alternative fuel to many other routes that are among some of the most driven in the UK, such as Swindon, the Midlands, Bristol, and London.  Along the routes will be hydrogen, bio-methane, and compressed natural gas filling points, as well as plenty of electric plug in facilities.

The reason for this is because while hydrogen is the most available element in the atmosphere, in order to propel an engine, electricity must be used to separate it from other elements like oxygen.

Cardiff director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, Gordon James stated that the scheme is a wonderful idea, but that only renewable energy should be converted into hydrogen fuel.

Wales Assembly Environment Secretary, Jane Davidson, stated that Wales will be the trailblazer in propelling the use of hydrogen technology.

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