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Driving Lessons Finder No 3 Bing

January 20th, 2010

After months of toiling away we have managed to grab the first spot for Driving Lessons behind the Internet Movie database and wikipedia. This has seen our traffic rocket and we are happy to report that emails from pupils are coming in thick and fast.

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Darren Day Drunk Driving

January 20th, 2010

The 41-year-old, who also admitted failing to stop after an accident, was almost twice the legal alcohol limit when he was stopped in the city’s West End in the early hours of the morning.

The entertainer had been starring in Queen musical We Will Rock You at the time of the incident.

He appeared in court today where he was told that a motion for his vehicle to be forfeited will also be considered by the court in February.

Day pleased not guilty to three other charges, including an allegation that he drove without due care and attention in the December 18 incident, were accepted by the Crown.

Sentence was deferred until next month at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Sheriff James Scott also disqualified the actor from holding or obtaining a driving licence in the meantime.

The entertainer, of Cudworth, South Yorkshire, had denied all the charges against him during two previous hearings at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and he was due to go on trial tomorrow.

But during a procedural hearing today, solicitor Robert Frazer told the court his client would plead guilty to two of the charges he faced.

His pleas of not guilty to allegations that he drove without due care and attention, failed to report the accident to police and failed to co-operate with a preliminary breath test were accepted by prosecutors.

Day also denied possessing an offensive weapon, namely a kubotan, but the plea was not accepted by prosecutors at this stage.

Trial on that charge was fixed for February 18, with a procedural hearing set for February 10.

Sentencing on the two charges he admitted was formally deferred to the
next hearing.

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Licence To Drive Number 1 For Driving Lessons Wakefield

January 19th, 2010

Driving Lessons Finder have been working on behalf of Licence To Drive Wakefield in an attempt to break into the top 3 of all major search engines.

We started the project back in the middle of December 2009  and we are pleased to announce that Licence To Drive Wakefield has topped  the major search engine Yahoo! for keywords Driving Lessons Wakefield and Driving Lesson Wakefield.

With a little on page and off page “love” the number 1 slot has been achieved. We are proud of our achievement and will be pushing for the number 1 spot on Google now also!

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Driving School Websites

January 18th, 2010

Driving Lessons Finder have started a service providing Driving Schools With Websites . The websites will be made Search Engine Friendly and will include a lifetime link to us Free of charge.

The move comes following a large amount of requests from Driving Instructors looking for upgraded websites and new Websites For Driving Instructors. We have been advised that there are a lot of companies out their offering websites but after doing research we feel that we can provide the best service.

Some companies are offering cheap templates where you can enter your own wording yourself. These are OK visually but are frowned upon by Search Engines hence the reason why most of these sites are hard to find in the Search Engine Results Pages.

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Learner Drivers Getting Stick

January 15th, 2010

A TRAINEE driving instructor has hit out at residents on an affluent South Woodford estate who have complained about learner motorists.

Stuart Verney, 40, who has lived on the Firs Estate for 14 years and is now almost qualified as a driving instructor with the AA, said: “I know it can be annoying, but if they’re not doing it there, they’ll be doing it somewhere else.

“It’s perfectly legal for them to be there.”

Residents claim learners are a ‘blight’ on the estate but Mr Verney added that he believes crime levels have been reduced by the numbers of trainee drivers who use it.

Mr Verney said: “They came pretty close to removing all the learner drivers from the estate about a decade ago.

“An agreement was drawn up to retreat from the estate for a time but then the crime rate went up.”

He said the presence of learner drivers kept the estate from appearing deserted and that this deterred criminals.

“Driving instructors have even reported crimes,” Mr Verney said.

Mr Verney also described how he himself had been on the receiving end of verbal abuse from a resident as he trained for his driving instructor’s qualification.

He said: “I was doing a reverse park and this woman came up and told me to do it somewhere else.

“I’m a fully qualified driver – I passed my test 20 years ago. I was half tempted to get out and say I’m not a learner. The anger was so unprovoked.”

Residents of the Firs Estate have been staunchly campaigning for 10 years to have learner drivers barred from the estate without success.

The council has said it cannot install “access only” signs as they would be too difficult to enforce.

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Driving Lessons Wakefield Update

January 7th, 2010

License To Drive Wakefield have just announced that they are putting on a special deal to entice new customers by offering the cheapest Driving  Lessons in Wakefield. The special offer will give new pupils the chance to buy 5 driving lessons for the unbelievably low price of just £49.50.

Driving Instructor Paul said ” With Christmas and New Year out of the way we have seen a lot more people looking for bargains and are happy to offer a better rate.”

License To Drive Wakefield have been taking the internet search engines by storm of late and are currently sitting third place for keywords Driving Lessons Wakefield and have just made the first page for Driving Schools Wakefield .

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Road Safety Training For Wheelchair Drivers

January 6th, 2010

Electric wheelchair users in Norfolk, England, are being given road safety training following a series of accidents.

Drivers of electric wheelchairs, which are exempt from the country’s road traffic laws, a re taught how to slalom round traffic cones and advised how to prove their reversing skills and parallel parking.

Despite the chairs having a top speed of just 6mph, drivers have been involved in serious collisions with pedestrians and other road users.

The scheme was launched by Norfolk police Tuesday after a spate of accidents.

Last year in Doncaster, England a toddler was knocked down by one of the vehicles and dragged down the road. The 70-year-old woman driving was unaware of the accident.

Chair retailers welcomed the move. Michael Lockwood of South Norfolk Mobility Center told Sky News: “It’s a brilliant idea. Some of these machines can weigh more than 300 pounds and in the wrong hands can be very dangerous.”

Presently in the U.K., drivers do not require a driving license to use an electric wheelchair. There is no legal requirement for insurance.

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Driving Test Cheats Scuppered

January 2nd, 2010

The DSA are fighting a war against people using imposters to sit their driving tests for them. We have previously reported on the worrying trend of people using impersonators to sit their driving test rather than take the test themselves. We can reveal that the DSA have a team called  the Fraud Integrity Team who have been charged with trying to bust these gangs.

Based in Nottingham and headed by Andy Rice they have already managed to secure 16 convictions.

The team, which is based at the Driving Standards Agency’s offices in Upper Parliament Street, relies heavily on tip-offs from examiners about suspicions they have.

“The bulk of our work surrounds stopping impersonators at driving tests,” said Mr Rice.

“What often happens is that someone with their test coming up will say to someone they know they think they will fail. This other person may then say to them ‘I know someone who can help’. That’s when they end up getting an imposter.”

In the vast majority of imposter cases, the criminal will take the provisional licence of the person they are helping and act as them.

The gangs charge different amounts of cash depending on how much they think they will be able to get out of someone.

In one case Andy recalls, the imposter donned a latex mask to make him look like the person he was taking the test for. Such cases are criminal offences and FIT are trying to combat it.

“The people who are working on these are often on the edge of criminal gangs,” said Andy. “The cash that is gained from doing the tests often ends up being used in other illegal activity.

“Often if we get a report of one member of a gang doing this we can find others too. In one case we uncovered a gang of about 500 doing it.”

The work done by FIT has seen them land the National Identity Crime Single Point of Contact Award.

Once the team has been informed about a case they often undertake surveillance of an individual. They need to build up evidence before approaching them and getting the police to arrest them. This can prove quite difficult hence the lower number of convictions however with experience the conviction rate will rise.

In many cases the imposter can end up behind bars, though there have been some cases where the one being impersonated has a similar punishment.

Nwzad Ali Suleman, 22, of Forest Road West, Nottingham, is currently serving an eight-month jail term after a friend took a test for him.

Andy added: “It is vital we take action against these people because we will get people driving around on our roads who haven’t passed a test. It is all about keeping the roads safe.

“One of our main weapons is our examiners. They are trained very well to spot something.

“But it can be hard.

“Not many people look the same as they do on a driving licence photo.

“They could easily have changed their appearance.

“We do tell the examiners if they are certain it’s the wrong person they shouldn’t go through with the test.”

Andy said imposters work hard to drive like someone with a provisional licence - though in some cases they overdo it and actually fail the test.

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Licence To Drive Top 3 On Google

January 1st, 2010

We are pleased to announce that Licence To Drive Wakefield’s rankings have moved up again in the search engines. As previously reported DrivingLessonsFinder teamed up with the company back in December to improve rankings in the SERPS (search engine results pages) and in turn increase visitors for the keywords Driving Lessons Wakefield.

We initially quoted a slightly longer time scale to get into the top three as the websites URL does not contain the keywords but despite that  thankfully we have still managed number 3.

The website fares even better in the Yahoo search engine results, ranking number 2 for Driving Lessons Wakefield and Driving Instructor Wakefield .

Head Of Search Kieran Cassidy said ” This is great news, I decided to work today even though its New Years Day so to see this makes it worth it. We are currently in talks with a few other driving schools and driving instructors about improving their rankings and I am really looking forward to getting these new projects under way. We made the decision to take on a handful of projects at a time so as not to overstretch ourselves. We will keep you updated as to when we hit number 1 spot!”

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