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Number Plates in the news. There are various newspaper stories out right now detailing success that police are having with ANPRS cameras. Northumbria Police and Borders and Lothian have been having great success denying their roads to the traveling criminals. However are they aware of how many will have switched to using back roads instead of the major trunk roads for their travels.

Tags: borders, cameras, criminals, lothian, number plates, travels, trunk roads

Factors affecting number plates.When estimating the value of a private number plate, many factors come into play . One of the main ones is exclusivity , say you want you initials XYC then you would prefer to have number 1 with them. The ways to get this are 1 XYC and XYC 1. It is also possible that only one of these two combinations exist and the other may only be available at auction. Having number 2 e.g. XYC 2 or 2 XYC ,although very nice says something about just not quite making it to the top, number 1 will always be the crem of the crop.

Tags: crem, exclusivity, number plates, play one, private number plate

New average speed cameras. Police are trialling new specs speed cameras which are networked together in a grid and communicate with each other. As a motorist enters such a grid his number plates are photographed and recorded with the time. It does not matter which road he leaves the grid by or even if he parks within the grid his average between any two cameras is computed and a fixed penalty is issued where appropriate.

Tags: average speed, fixed penalty, number plates, police cameras, speed cameras

Number plates law is becoming more complex and rigourously enforced by the police.The reason for this is the success the police are having with cameras to do their work. Number plates which are mis-spaced or mis-represented play havoc with their equipment and therefore have to be stamped out asap in order for the continued success of number plate recognition camera policing.

Tags: asap, cameras, continued success, havoc, number plate recognition, number plates, reason

The Daily Telegraph ran a story about the registration number LEW1S being bought by Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton for ?200k. In the following weeks Motorsports News it was reported that Lewis denied he had bought anypersonalised number plates at all. He said he wouldn’t pay even ?100 for a number plate never mind two hundred grand. As he is a tax exile and is not allowed to have a car registered in the U.K. it would seem to be true.

Tags: 200k, daily telegraph, lewis hamilton, number plates, registration number, tax exile