Driving test top tips to help you pass first time!

  Is your driving test date nearing? Are you feeling those nerves? Feeling nervous is completely normal but there is ways you can help make yourself feel more at ease is to be prepared! Use our top tips to help you stay calm on your big day: Be On Time : Its a pretty obvious […]

Fraudulent driver takes over 100 driving tests for others !

According to the Evening Standard a woman who sat the driving tests of 100 different people has been jailed. It is estimated she performed driving tests throughout England and Wales from cities such as Swansea and Birmingham. The Defendant was offering her services to Learners who experience difficulties with the English language. Detective chief inspector […]

Driving Tests being sold in the UK for an astonishing £200!

      Driving tests in the UK have reached an at all time high in cost, due to the DVSA backlog. An ever increasing number of hopefuls are being fear led into paying this astronomical price in the hope of being fast tracked into priority booking. This service is being provided by online operators […]

Will the last person to pass a manual driving test be born in the next 5 years?

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 […]

Fraudster wrapped bandage round his head to take theory tests for other people

A fraudster has been jailed after taking driving theory tests for other people while disguising himself with a bandage around his head. Izmir Senaj, 28, used several excuses for his injuries as he turned up to DVSA centres across England to impersonate people whose tests he had agreed to take for them. He was eventually […]

DVSA refuses to extend expired theory tests

LEARNER drivers have lost £1.14million as a result of car theory tests expiring due to Covid backlogs. Driving tests and lessons have been suspended during much of the pandemic, causing a pile-up of 420,000 car driving tests and 380,000 car theory tests. But the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has resisted calls from learners […]

Practical Driving Tests To Resume On The 22nd April.

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 […]

L-TEACHERS DATES OK WITH U-18S

The following story has been in the news recently, what do you think? At Britannia Driving School we wouldn’t condone this type of behaviour from any of our instructors. DODGY driving instructors won’t be banned from having relationships with teenagers under tough new laws. Ministers blocked proposals to the motoring teachers to be included alongside […]

Driving and riding lessons and tests – National lockdown

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 […]

Driving Test cancelled due to dirty car.

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 […]