Top Tips for Reducing Driving Lesson Cancellations Tip #1:  Be Direct Consider the students, especially the teenagers, who do not have to pay to cancel a dentist, medical, or hairdresser appointment. So why does their driving instructor want to be reimbursed for a lesson that they did not provide? Don’t expect them to be clairvoyant […]

Predictions have been made that the last person who will pass a manual driving test will likely be born in 2027 as Britain makes the switch to electric cars. This comes after research showed half of the new cars sold in 2021 were automatics, totaling 30% of cars on the road. The number of automatic […]

DRIVING laws can cause confusion and there can sometimes be a grey area over what could land you with a fine and what doesn’t. The rules and regulations of driving often have motorists scratching their heads trying to figure out the legislation. Some of the laws could land you in trouble with the police, with […]

The DVSA has announced practical driving tests will resume on the 22nd April, as of yet we are unaware how this will pan out. In the first lockdown in 2020 driving tests were rebooked for everyone who had their test cancelled due to Covid  first of all which did cause some frustration and some candidates […]

Driving lessons are to resume on Monday 12th April. We at Britannia Driving School are now having the busy task of rebooking all cancelled pupils due to the National Lockdown. As before the lockdown all students will be asked to wear a facial covering to sanitise  hands and not to take lessons if they have […]

On 4 January, the government announced a new national lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus. You can read more about the lockdown measures on GOV.UK Driving and riding lessons Driving and riding lessons, including CBT must not take place until the restrictions are lifted. This includes ADI part 2 and 3 tests and standards […]

If you’re driving home for Christmas or going anywhere in the car make sure you’re staying safe, here  some tips to avoid getting in any trouble In the run-up to Christmas, many drivers might want to get in the festive spirit as they make their way to finish up their Christmas shopping before heading home […]

Leo Sargent, 17, forked out £62 for his driving test but will now need to retake the exam after his examiner allegedly told him his 14-year-old car’s footwell wasn’t clean enough A teenager who waited months to sit his driving test was left “devastated” after it was cancelled last minute because the examiner thought his […]

IT’S official — women can’t park and men go too fast, driving test figures show. More females fail for struggling to reverse, with accelerating too quickly one of the main reasons for blokes flunking, the stats show. Last year, there were 936,000 serious or dangerous test errors by women and 694,000 by men. Just one […]

After Saturdays  announcement by Boris Johnson on the second National Lockdown in England from Thursday 5th November 2020 to Wednesday 2nd December 2020, what does that mean for driving lessons and driving tests? Q: When will we know if driving lessons can continue during the November National Lockdown? A: We are awaiting information from the […]