Examiners are moving away from rehearsed routines and towards real-world skill — rewarding smooth, eco-friendly driving and genuine hazard awareness over memorised habits. Here’s what the shift means for learners and instructors alike, and how to adapt lesson plans and mock tests accordingly.
The DVSA has confirmed a major boost in driving test capacity, with almost 250,000 extra tests delivered and total passes topping 1 million. Find out how new booking rules are helping genuine learners get fairer access to test slots.
With heatwaves now hitting the UK harder and more often, here’s what learner drivers (and everyone else) need to know to stay safe on the road.
A new MoneySuperMarket survey found 86% of UK drivers missed a pedestrian in a simple observation test — despite most feeling confident in their awareness on the road. Here’s what the findings mean for learner drivers, and exactly what to practise to build genuinely sharp observation skills from day one.
Being tailgated as a learner driver is stressful and intimidating — but it’s also illegal. Learn how to stay calm, drive safely, and handle tailgating with confidence.
A recent survey commissioned by Motorpoint revealed a startling reality about UK roads: up to half of motorists are not confident they could read a vehicle registration plate from 20 metres away. That distance isn’t just an arbitrary number; it is the legal minimum standard for driving. For a learner driver preparing to take to the road independently, your vision is your very first line of defence.
You have eight days to sort it out. After 9 June 2026, the rules change in ways that will leave thousands of learner drivers geographically marooned, unable to move their booking to the centre they actually want.
New CPR and AED questions are now live in the DVSA theory test — here’s everything learner drivers in the Chilterns need to know Somewhere on a road near you, a driver will collapse at the wheel. A cyclist will be struck at a junction. A pedestrian will suffer a cardiac arrest on the pavement. And statistically, the person closest…
Road safety campaigns come and go, but every so often a pair of them lands that genuinely makes you stop and think. This month, Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins launched two new campaigns — Priority List and Control
Published on 17 March 2026, the annual ALARM report (Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey) has laid bare the catastrophic state of local roads in England and Wales, and the numbers make for grim reading.