The Department for Transport has said only people granted permission to stay in the country for 185 days or more will now be eligible to take a test.

Abu-Haris Shafi, the director of Britain’s largest driving school, has avoided a car ban despite ‘totting up’ 17 points.

You’ve just got to admire this kind of tenacity. This 68-year-old woman wanted her driver’s license so badly that she had gone to take the written test nearly every single day since April of 2005.

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is asking its members to take strike action on Monday and Tuesday, 8 and 9 March.