| 20th Apr 2012 |
Get An Earlier Test
An entrepreneur has found a market! Go to www.drivingtestcancellations.co.uk and for a fee of £20.00 they will text you details of test cancellations as they come up, potentially saving you weeks of waiting for a driving test. |
| 27th Mar 2012 |
Fuel Tanker Drivers Strike
Fuel Tanker Drivers have voted in favour of industrial action and strikes are planned across the UK. This action is condemned by the Government, who already have contingency plans to minimise disruption. Drivers are advised to drive in a manner to improve fuel consumption and are urged not to panic buy or queue at forecourts. |
| 21st Mar 2012 |
Faul Free Driving Test
Congratulations to our instructor Steve Fairbrass. He achieved the enviable "no faults" driving test to his credit when Jade Burg of West Molesey passed her test yesterday 20 March. Some instructors never achieve a fault free driving test throughout their driving instruction career. Well done Steve! |
| 13th Feb 2012 |
Driving License Fraud
An investigation has been started by DVLA following a BBC investigative programme. It has revealed the fraudulent practise of exchanging a bogus Hong Kong license to a full UK license. Some 30,000 licenses may be investigated and could lead to some being revoked |
| 1st Dec 2011 |
Fault Free Drive
Congratulations to our instructor Michelle. She recorded her first fault free driving test with her pupil Nick Dodds from Teddington today 1st December at Ashford Test Centre. These are extremely rare and some instructors go through their whole career without achieving this. Not Michelle!! Well done again!! |
| 25th Nov 2011 |
20mph Zone Expansion
Islington has become the first local council in the UK to opt for a 20mph zone on all roads within its jurisdiction. It goes to public debate and could be in force by the end of 2012. It is an attempt to reduce the number of fatal and serious injuries to pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. |
| 22nd Nov 2011 |
Christmas Special
Christmas Card/Voucher with a special offer of 5 hours driving lessons for just £95.00 - the ideal present for the soon to be mobile. This applies to new customers (excludes pre-test lesson, use of car on test, refresher lessons, re-test lessons following disqualification and passplus). The lessons are subject to our normal terms and conditions and instructor availability and must be taken by 31st March 2012. Not many shopping days to Christmas – so book NOW!! |
| 6th Sep 2011 |
A New Addition
Congratulations to our instructor Lisa and husband Chris. They had a fine baby boy on Monday (if a little late!). Jake weighed in a healthy 7lbs 1oz. |
| 1st Aug 2011 |
Organ Donation
From today new and replacement applications for provisional driving licenses will require ticking a box for agreeing or declining organ donation. This positive action is expected to lead to more donor organ availability in the event of road crash fatalities. |
| 23rd Jun 2011 |
Faultless Drive
Congratulations to pupil David Simmonds from Walton-on-Thames. He passed his test at Tolworth today 23rd June with no driving faults – a brilliant result and very rare indeed. Well done to our instructor Julian who trained him. |
| 16th Jun 2011 |
A New Addition
Congratulations to our instructor Alain and his wife Kate. Baby "Yumi" was born 16th June and both baby and Kate are doing well. Everything is just fine. |
| 25th May 2011 |
Independant Driving Report
The DSA have just issued figures for the first three months of the introduction of independant driving to the driving test. These show there has been very little difference in pass rates between October 2010 and January 2011. |
| 11th May 2011 |
On-The-Spot Fines
On the Spot Fines for Careless Drivers is being introduced in 2012. Rather than go through the courts police will be able to issue fines of £80.00 and 3 points on the license for careless driving in an attempt to reduce road traffic accidents. Targeting undertaking, tailgating and other deliberate bad driving offences rather than human error has the full support of the Institute of Advanced Motorists among others. |
| 6th May 2011 |
A Rising Star
Congratulations to Ronny Minkwitz, a young German footballer at the Fulham academy - "A Rising Star". He passed his test first time today with our instructor Steve. |
| 13th Apr 2011 |
Highway Code
Happy Birthday to the Highway Code. 80 years old on 14th April. There have been massive changes in road transport over the intervening years, but the Highway Code has maintained its theme throughout of care and consideration to other road users. Long may it continue! |
| 1st Apr 2011 |
Speed Cameras
As part of their drive to save money, Oxfordshire switched off their speed cameras some eight months ago. As of this morning 1st April they are being switched on again. Figures released have shown an increase of fatalities and serious crashes over that period. |
| 30th Mar 2011 |
Radio Jackie
Congratulations to Steve Brockwell. Our instructor was spotted by the Radio Jackie roving team displaying a Radio Jackie sticker in the rear window of his driving school car and has won £107.80 (Radio Jackie can be found on FM 107.8). This is not our first association with Radio Jackie. Newsreader Lucy Mayer passed her driving test with me (Phil Hamilton) way back in 2001. Her younger sister Emily followed two years later in 2003. Since then we have advertised with Radio Jackie through our association with Checkatrade. |
| 24th Mar 2011 |
Price Increase
With continued pressure on our costs we are forced to revise some of our prices for new customers from 01/04/11. The basic rate of £23.00 per hour remains but prepaid lessons for new customers from 01/04/11 will be offered 12 hours at £22.00 (£264.00). The test car price is revised to £60.00 and passplus £156.00 for the minimum 6 hours. These are our first price increases for over 3 years and still represent great value for learning a life skill with a professional driving instructor. |
| 20th Mar 2011 |
Goodbye to Jane
Our instructor Jane Day has decided to pursue a new career after 5 years with Hamilton. She is looking for more sociable hours and reliable income. On behalf of everybody at Hamilton we wish her well and I personally would like to thank her for her commitment to her pupils during her time with us. |
| 19th Mar 2011 |
No Reduction in Drink Drive Limit
The Government has turned down a government-commissioned report recommending reducing the legal drink limit by nearly 50% arguing that improving enforcement would have more impact. Considering the limitations on police budgets and reduced numbers of police officers, this is debatable! |
| 11th Feb 2011 |
Motorway Learners
Mike Penning MP has just announced that legislation will soon be introduced to allow instructors to provide motorway training for L-drivers. Currently drivers must pass the driving test before they are allowed on a motorway. About time!!! |
| 8th Feb 2011 |
Celebrity Pass
Steffon Armitage, rugby union player for London Irish and England passed his test today in Ashford. He was trained by our instructor Ravinder with driving lessons in Isleworth. We teach the famous and perhaps the infamous as well! |
| 7th Feb 2011 |
Congratulations to Hamilton
We have just received a letter and certificate from "checkatrade" congratulating us for achieving 250 recommendations from satisfied pupils. That's a lot of happy test candidates - and there are many, many more out there. So, call us today and add to the number. |
| 19th Jan 2011 |
The first "Average Speed Camera System" has been installed on a section of the A13 between Canning Town and Goresbrook Interchange. There were more than 400 crashes and two fatalities between 2007 and 2009 along this stretch of road. The first (of many?) on a major urban road. |
| 6th Jan 2011 |
New Instructor
We are lucky enough to have a new instructor joining us. Lisa covers the areas surrounding her Chessington location and with over 4 years experience as an AA instructor will prove to be a great asset to our driving school. |
| 1st Dec 2010 |
Test Centre Closure
Tolworth test Centre is closed from 7th January until 14th February for refurbishment. This will put greater demand on neighbouring test centres so you can expect longer waiting times |
| 15th Nov 2010 |
Following the introduction of Independent Driving as part of the driving test, The Driving Standards Agency no longer publishes test routes on their website. |
