In effort to tackle severe backlog and end resale market, only learner drivers will be able to make bookings Bots and third parties will be banned from booking driving tests as part of a government shake-up to tackle a severe backlog of almost 670,000 learners booked in for a practical assessment. The Department for Transport (DfT), which recently consulted on how to crack down on touts selling on test slots at inflated prices, said that only learner drivers themselves and not their instructors would be able to make bookings. Continue reading...

Kit includes the ship and accessory-toting minifigs of the Enterprise crew.

The city’s regional government is investing €1.5m in the project but has stipulations about featuring ‘identifiable locations’ on screen and the film premiering at an international film festival The Madrid regional government is hoping to harness the power of film tourism by investing €1.5m (£1.3m) in a new Woody Allen movie that will be shot in and around the Spanish capital and which will be contractually obliged to feature the word “Madrid” in its title. Regional authorities are confident the 89-year-old film-maker’s next project could do for Madrid what Roman Holiday did for Rome tourism in the early 1950s, and what Sex and the City and Emily in Paris have more recently done to increase visitor numbers to New York and the French capital. Continue reading...