However, the ABI warns the extra cover finishes in January so drivers cannot fall back on the same excuse for the January sales.
The agency has urged drivers to check expensive items like laptops are never left unattended in vehicles as these can be attractive to thieves.
They add Christmas is looked upon favourably by burglars with the average haul for thieves coming to £2,250.
Research from Allianz also found 71 percent would hide gifts in cars with a quarter saying they happily keep gifts more than £100 in a vehicle.
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Which? has also urged caution revealing up to 46 percent of shoppers have admitted to leaving new purchases in the car.
France-UK border unlikely to open before Wednesday, ending hopes of Christmas deliveries
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Dec. 22, 2020 10:38 GMT
Although talks have resumed between French and UK officials regarding the reopening of the Channel Tunnel border closed for 48 hours since the evening of Dec. 20 this will likely come too late to rescue Christmas deliveries of fresh seafood to the continent, according to James Withers, CEO of Scotland Food & Drink. [.]
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Food firms face huge losses as produce rots on becalmed lorries
Seafood sellers are expected to be hit hardest by the disruption as their products are particularly in demand in Europe at Christmas
22 December 2020 • 8:11pm
Almost £40m of British fish, fruit, meat and vegetables was at risk of rotting away in a Kent lorry park on Tuesday night after the French imposed a two-day ban on trucks crossing from Dover.
The delays - sparked after France closed the border due to fears about the new Covid strain - left more than 2,000 lorries stranded near Dover and will render vast quantities of food unusable, landing producers with massive losses that are unlikely to be covered by insurance.
Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme
How to submit an expression of an interest to become part of innovative action on flooding and coastal change.
From:
Applies to:
EOI) forms has been extended from 15 January 2021 to 29 January 2021.
In the 2020 Budget, the government announced a £200 million fund for this programme. The flood and coastal resilience innovation programme will help meet the aims set out in the:
The programme will allocate £150 million of the £200 million to 25 local areas. For some, a local area might be a county, city, town or village. For others, a place could mean a river catchment, a tidal estuary or part of the coast. On average each area will receive £6 million between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2027.
In their Automated Vehicles: Consultation Paper 3 report, the Law Commission says drivers may not be liable under some circumstances.
They say if a vehicle is classified as self-driving and the Automated Driving Software is correctly engaged, a driver becomes a “user-in-charge” and is not responsible for criminal damages.
Two-thirds of those consulted agreed with the proposals given the human “no longer has any control” over how the car is driven.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) and car safety experts Thatcham Research have strongly argued ALKS should not be listed.
Insurance experts do not want new ALKS technology considered driverless cars (Image: Getty)