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Scottish Sun
25-04-2025
- Automotive
- Scottish Sun
‘Offensive' number plates banned by DVLA revealed – including ‘pro-Brexit' and ‘Nazi' registrations
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) THE DVLA has banned hundreds of number plates it deems to be too offensive — including pro-Brexit ones such as EU75 OUT as well as AU75 WTZ. Ahead of the '75' reg launch on September 1, the agency released a list of 436 not allowed. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Pro-Brexit number plates such as EU75 OUT have been banned Motorists caught driving with them could be fined up to £1,000 and given a failed MOT. To avoid provocative references to political issues such as EU membership, plates such as EU75 OUT, EU75 SHT, EU75 WAR and EU75 YES are barred. To avoid encouraging criminal behaviour, the combinations LE75 KLL (Let's kill), as well as MU75 DER (Murder) are also on the banned list. The plates AU75 WTS and AU75 WTZ are also outlawed as they could be seen as a reference to the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Also banned are the rude combinations BA75 TRD, BA75 SHT and SH75 TTY. Last September, private number plates seller RegTransfers also reported that 210 specific character combinations would be censored. Its chief executive Mark Trimbee said: 'These bans ensure that number plates on the road aren't ones that could be translated into something inflammatory, offensive, insulting, obscene or otherwise problematic.' He added: 'There are almost always some, however, that might take a bit of deciphering but the DVLA has to err on the side of caution.'
The Irish Sun
25-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
‘Offensive' number plates banned by DVLA revealed – including ‘pro-Brexit' and ‘Nazi' registrations
THE DVLA has banned hundreds of number plates it deems to be too offensive — including pro-Brexit ones such as EU75 OUT as well as AU75 WTZ. Ahead of the '75' reg launch on September 1, the agency released a list of 436 not allowed. 1 Pro-Brexit number plates such as EU75 OUT have been banned Motorists caught driving with them could be fined up to £1,000 and given a failed MOT. To avoid provocative references to political issues such as EU membership, plates such as EU75 OUT, EU75 SHT, EU75 WAR and EU75 YES are barred. To avoid encouraging criminal behaviour, the combinations LE75 KLL (Let's kill), as well as MU75 DER (Murder) are also on the banned list. The plates AU75 WTS and AU75 WTZ are also outlawed as they could be seen as a reference to the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp in READ MORE MOTORS NEWS Also banned are the rude combinations BA75 TRD, BA75 SHT and SH75 TTY. Last September, private number plates seller RegTransfers also reported that 210 specific character combinations would be censored. Its chief executive Mark Trimbee said: 'These bans ensure that number plates on the road aren't ones that could be translated into something inflammatory, offensive, insulting, obscene or otherwise problematic.' He added: 'There are almost always some, however, that might take a bit of deciphering but the DVLA has to err on the side of caution.' Most read in Motors People are just realising the hidden meaning behind the letters on car number plates
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump says US, Britain working on 'great' trade deal
US President Donald Trump held out the prospect of a "great" post-Brexit trade deal that could avoid tariffs on Britain Thursday -- as he hailed Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a tough negotiator. "We're going to have a great trade agreement, one way or the other," Trump told reporters during a joint press conference with Starmer at the White House, adding that a new deal could come together "rather quickly." Pro-Brexit politicians dangled the promise of a US-UK trade deal as one of the benefits of leaving the European Union ahead of the 2016 referendum on EU membership. But they failed to agree a deal following the vote. Billionaire property tycoon Trump, who authored a book called the "Art of the Deal," hailed former human rights lawyer Starmer's negotiating skills during the press conference. "You're a very tough negotiator -- I'm not sure I like that, but that's ok," Trump joked. Asked if Starmer had managed to persuade him to drop the threat of tariffs, the US president chuckled and said: "He tried. he was working hard, I'll tell you that." "He earned whatever the hell they pay him over there," he added. Since taking office, Trump has threatened to impose sweeping tariffs against trading partners with whom the United States has a large trade deficit, including the European Union and China. Trump's comments on a deal signal that his administration is keen to revive the trade talks with Britain, which made little progress during his predecessor Joe Biden's term in office. Starmer said he had had a "productive discussion" with Trump, adding that the United States and Britain were now working on a new "economic deal." "We could very well end up with a real trade deal where the tariffs wouldn't be necessary," Trump told reporters, adding that the eventual deal could be "really terrific for both countries." On Thursday, Starmer defended Britain's trade balance with the United States, calling it "fair, balanced and reciprocal." da-myl-acb/dk/st
