Jamie Dawson

The complete change-of-ownership process when you sell a car — online and postal routes, the green slip, what happens to your tax, and why speed protects you.

The Fire Safety Order sets no retention periods, so how long should you keep alarm test logs, drill records, extinguisher certificates, fire door checks and risk assessments? A record-by-record answer.

UK law expects at least one fire drill a year, more in higher-risk premises, and a record of each one. How to plan a drill, what to time, what to write down and how long to keep it.

How to run the weekly fire alarm test the way BS 5839-1 and fire officers expect: same time each week, a different call point every time, alarm receiving centre on test, and a logbook entry that proves it happened.

Three years from first registration — not from when you bought it. Finding the real date, the taxi/ambulance exceptions, and what happens if you miss it.

The paper is a receipt; the database is the record. How to print your MOT history free — and the one situation where a duplicate certificate is worth getting.

Rolling 40-year exemption, the 'substantially changed' catch, and the V112 declaration at tax time — plus why exempt never means unroadworthy.

A month minus a day: the earliest you can test while keeping your renewal date — and the date printed on your certificate that makes it foolproof.

The free-retest windows nobody explains properly — and the dangerous-vs-major distinction that decides whether you can legally drive home.

An advisory isn't a fail — it's a forecast. Which advisories to act on now, which can wait, and how to read a stranger's advisory history before buying.

A Brighton landlord was prosecuted after ten months of repeat visits. The offence was not finding faults. It was not closing them out, on the record.

Resprays and full wraps must be notified to DVLA: free, by post, section-and-sign. Decals and stripes don't. The process, the ANPR risk, and the insurer step.