Fellow columnist Mike...

Fellow columnist Mike Rutherford"s list of facts the Government should tell us made for gripping reading. But I"d add another: MoT test statistics. These were state secrets 20 years ago, and since then the Government has claimed the information is simply too difficult to dig out. Now, however, there"s a chance that ordinary motorists might just be able to benefit from some of the basic information-gathering they have paid for many times over.

New laws to make parking...

New laws to make parking enforcement fairer are on the way. The Department for Transport has rubber-stamped rules to force local authorities to scrap fines for motorists with mitigating circumstances.