South Wales' FRF business has won the Toyota Best Retailer in Town Group award. Their Swansea dealership also collected the award for new vehicle sales in 2023. This is the 10th year of the Toyota BRIT awards which recognise the top-performing Toyota centres in the UK. FRF Group, winner of the Best Toyota Group award, is a family business that has operated in South Wales for more than 20 … [Read more...]
Four Welsh towns have UK’s shortest L-test time
Wales passes the test for the best places to learn to drive in Britain. Learner drivers Cardigan area can expect a short wait of 4.06 weeks between when they book their test and when they eventually get around to taking it. Cardigan is one of four Welsh areas that are the quickest places to secure a driving test slot in the UK. Carmarthen in Wales has the second quickest waiting time to … [Read more...]
Concerns of more lower speed limits around the corner
A Welsh Government Minister has refused to rule out more speed limit reductions on major roads after fighting off an opposition bid to scrap the 20mph default limit beginning Sunday. After losing the vote to Labour and Plaid Cymru members in the Senedd, Welsh Conservative Shadow Transport Minister Natasha Asghar, MS said, “Labour and Plaid Cymru refused to listen to public opinion, I sought … [Read more...]
Manhunt after sexual assault on West Wales station & train
British Transport Police investigating a sexual assault at Carmarthen Railway Station have released a CCTV image of the man they want to question. Just before 2.50pm on Thursday 13 July, a woman arrived at Carmarthen station to wait for the 2.50pm train to Pembroke Dock. Before her train arrived, a man sat next to her and engaged her in conversation, before sexually assaulting … [Read more...]
Newslines 25 August
Wales’s bus services anticipate being cut by a quarter now that Welsh Government Covid funding has ceased to support routes and businesses. Welsh Conservatives labelled the cuts as “moronic” at time when a massive campaign is underway to deter private cars and driving. More than 100,000 passengers have travelled on the improved Carmarthen – Aberystwyth TrawsCymru service since it was relaunched … [Read more...]
Fraudster sat 150 driving tests
A woman living in Wales who impersonated learner drivers taking theory and practical driving tests over two years has been jailed for eight months. Inderjeet Kaur, 29, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, admitted taking 150 tests between 2018 and 2020 for people who had difficulty with English. Swansea Crown Court heard suspicion grew at test centres that Kaur was impersonating … [Read more...]
Osian set for thriller beginning today & ending in Wales
Osian Pryce will bounce straight back from finishing runner-up in the British Rally Championship by aiming for victory on the Roger Albert Clark Rally. This year’s five-day and 351 stage mile event will be the longest special stage rally in Great Britain for 30 years (since the 1991 Lombard RAC Rally in fact) and Osian will contest the event for the first time in a RallyXtreme Ford Escort Mk2 … [Read more...]
RAC Breakdown predict huge jams this weekend
Drivers will make the most of the fine weather expected this final bank holiday weekend of the year with an estimated 16.7m leisure trips planned, a similar number to 2019, say RAC Breakdown. The figures suggest today, Friday, could see the largest numbers of cars on the roads with 4.3m leisure journeys by car planned and, according to transport analytics experts INRIX, a 25% increase in delays … [Read more...]
New MG dealer in Wales
MG Motor UK has appointed OC Davies to its national dealer network. Based in Carmarthen, the family-run business has more than 45 years’ experience in the motor industry, selling new and used cars across three sites in Wales. As well as new car sales, OC Davies will offer a full service package to its customers and will open an MOT centre in April. Morlais Davies, OC Davies’ Director, … [Read more...]
West Wales school given mini-bus
Staff and pupils from Myrddin Special Unit, Carmarthen have been presented with a new Lord’s Taverners wheelchair accessible minibus. Since 1976, the Lord’s Taverners has placed over 1,100 accessible minibuses across schools in the UK. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first minibus giveaway and to celebrate this the charity is donating a record 40 minibuses in … [Read more...]