One eventually did arrive, but only after a car had been towed.
Thousands of law-abiding motorists are having their cars towed away and are being charged fines of as much as £800 after unwittingly falling foul of car tax rule changes introduced by the DVLA.
In a third referral, on 9 December 2013, the defence department referred to the AFP a news.com.au article by Ian McPhedran about an Australian patrol boat sinking an asylum seeker boat after it was towed from Christmas Island.
One train, the 6.55am from Brighton, which should have reached Victoria at 8.15am, was stationary for hours and was eventually towed into Streatham in south London just before 1pm.
If not, there's a sizeable risk that M&B, a decent company with potential to prosper again, will be towed away on the cheap by Lewis in his big yacht.
Their gliders were towed over the Channel and released.
Another Money reader, Angus Walker, had to pay £465 to get his hybrid car back from the pound after it was towed by the DVLA, even though the car is not liable for vehicle excise duty due to its super-low emissions.
The DVLA says it has worked with motor traders and written to new owners to make them aware of the change, but plenty of motorists have found their vehicles clamped or towed away after being given a taxed car by a relative, or even swapping cars within a family.
If we hadn't told the DVLA of the change and carried on driving each other's cars, none of this would have happened Christopher Webb Last month married couple Christopher and Marianna Webb returned from a trekking holiday in Nepal to find that the ageing Ford Focus they had left in the Battersea area of London had been towed and stored in a pound for non-payment of car tax.
Before the changes DVLA was clamping about 5,000 vehicles a month, but this has surged to more than 8,000 – with motorists horrified to discover their cars being towed away without even a warning letter from the agency.
But the police seem a little more jumpy than unusual, cars are being towed by bomb disposal experts, office workers are regularly moved out of buildings by bomb scares, gathering in courtyards or the street to chat, smoke and wait.
