The enormous cost of teenage car insurance

How can you not feel sorry for teenage drivers? As a mum of two teen drivers – the youngest who passed his test only a couple of weeks ago – I can understand why they want to take to the road and enjoy an independent life, especially living in a village like we do. David, my eldest, has just inherited my trusty Honda Max through necessity as his university internship year which...
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River swimming and Matthew Parris’s dip into The Thames

Who doesn’t cherish a dream? Have a plan? A wish list to complete before the body clock passes that looming landmark year? So I salute the courage of Times columnist Matthew Parris who has just made his 15 year dream come true in the run up to his 61st birthday; for him, his great accomplishment was swimming across the murky River Thames, a feat he succumbed to one dark night at 3.35am,...
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