Emergency Vehicles and How to Respond to Them This week, we’re looking at how you can help an emergency vehicle reach the scene of an urgent situation quickly and safely. Here’s IAM RoadSmart’s head of driving and riding Richard Gladman, to guide you through. Whenever you hear the sound of an emergency siren mute your
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F-TYPE Gains All-Wheel Drive and Manual Transmission Options as the Range Grows from Six to 14 Derivatives

Brits prove their generosity over the Christmas period, as almost a third of the British have donated food to vulnerable people in need. Despite the chaos and excitement of the festive period, almost a third (32%) of the British public have remembered vulnerable people in need by generously donating food to those in need across
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David Beckham Attends British Brand Belstaff’s Flagship Store Opening Leather Clad Beckham & Celebrity Guests Celebrate Belstaff Bond Street Flagship Store   David Beckham, David Gandy, Jemma Kidd (Mortington), Jodie Kidd and Pixie Lott, celebrated global British luxury lifestyle brand Belstaff’s newest flagship store in London, at 131-135 New Bond Street. In line with the
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A Hundred Reasons to Laugh I read that a child laughs 400 times a day on the average, while an adult laughs only 15 times. Which puzzles me – what do you think the children are laughing at? During one particularly dark period of my life I didn’t laugh even 15 times a day. Not
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Do You Believe In You? Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his mental ability. Or that Beethoven’s music teacher said about him, “As a composer he is hopeless”? What if young Ludwig
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Wakefield was anciently a market and parish town in the Agbrigg Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a parliamentary borough with one Member of Parliament by the Reform Act 1832. In 1836 the Wakefield Poor Law Union was formed following the Poor Law Amendment Act
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 Old English word wacu, meaning “a watch or wake”, and feld, an open field in which a wake or festival was held. In the Domesday Book of 1086, it was written Wachefeld and also as Wachefelt. Early history Flint and stone tools and later bronze and iron implements have been found at Lee Moor
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Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is 2,062 hectares (5,100 acres) and had a population of 76,886 in 2001.

Wakefield was dubbed the “Merrie City” in the Middle Ages and in 1538 John Leland described it as, “a very quick market town and meately large; well served of fish and flesh both from sea and by rivers … so that all vitaile is very good and chepe there. A right honest man shall fare well for 2d. a meal. … There be plenti of se coal in the quarters about Wakefield”.

Every child loves to play at the playground, and nothing is better than having your very own playground in the backyard. It’s as exciting to a child as Christmas morning. How do we as parents pick out the perfect outdoor play set for them? Bringing your child with you to pick it out is key.
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