disability — the mobility scooter ideal but navigating roads and pavements can be risky 0ur reporter simon sparkind out more. when you talk about how vulnerable mobility scooter users are on the roads, transporting safety fencing like this doesn't help. it's really, oh, really bad. nor does the state of the roads themselves. and there are other issues too. they're getting bigger and bigger now, and i don't think all of them should be allowed in shops, to be honest, because they're just too big. i've been taken out by one. yeah. what happened to you? it hit my ankle. it gave way, and it damaged - a ligament in my achilles tendon. legally, you don't have to have insurance to drive one, nor have any official training. but as the number of users increases, so too have the collisions. we see claims for theft and damage come in all the time, but this year, we were we felt that we were seeing a real rise in serious incidents. so we wanted to dig into the data a bit and see what was going on. the data, which is only from 2022, shows that mobility scooter drivers were more than 2.5 times more likely to b

simon spark, bbc news. magnificent having all that space!ou know, caught the panel, took the paint off, and it needs a repair. the most common that we end up seeing is the bollard damage, because it's quite severe, and obviously sometimes smaller car park dents where people open the door on the car — people just leave it and just, like, think, "oh," you know, "i'll pass it on or leave it to a later date when it needs fixing." whereas with the bollard damage, it sort of needs, you know, instant repair before it starts to rust or galvanise on the aluminium panels. before you think about the new car, have thought about the size. that galvanising damage on the aluminium panels! if you've got experiences of struggling to park in a regular space then we'd love to hear from you. perhaps you have had to crawl out of the passenger side or leave the kids on the pavement before parking. maybe you have a photo of some costly repairs caused by tight spots. please get in touch in all of the usual ways. we used to live in a flat when i first had my son and

simon. her stay in number 10 lasted just 45 days before liz truss was forced to stand down as prime minister in 2022, following a mini budget that sparkeditics, says that your time as prime minister left the uk as an international laughing stock. well, i don't... i don't think that's true. but you lasted, all the stuff about lasting less time than a lettuce. this isjust, this isjust pathetic, you know, point scoring. address directly, our viewer or listener who looks back 18 months and remembers that mini budget and blames you for mortgages going sky high, for the country feeling poorer, for the economy getting into a spin and say that you were the author of that and it was a disaster. well, the mortgages getting higher was a phenomenon that was happening around the world. interest rates were going up, they'd been too low for too long. and in fact, it was a failure of the bank of england not to put them up earlier, which would have helped stemmed inflation. but it was your actions that led to that spiralling economic mess. well, i don't agree with that. i don't agree with that. but the markets went into turmoil, you had to sack your cha