You'll soon be able to make car tax payments by monthly direct debit, but it will no longer be possible to transfer this from sellers to buyers when cars change hands.
A stronger dollar and a pound 'weakened by the Scottish referendum' have put the brakes on falling petrol prices, according to the motoring association, the AA.
Travellers with flight delay and cancellation compensation claims on hold due to court cases should know by early November whether airlines have been successful in challenging the rules.
From today millions of people will be able to travel on the London Underground using contactless payment cards, with fares costing the same as those for Oyster card users.
Commuters in England with season tickets are to be spared some of the pain of next January's rail fare rise after Chancellor George Osborne announced a price cap.
Commuters in England and Wales face an average 3.5% increase in regulated rail fares next year, after official inflation figures used to calculate the rise were published today.
Supermarket giant Tesco is closing its comparison site Tesco Compare at the end of August, but if you've bought a policy via Tesco Compare, you don't need to take any action to keep it in place.
1 August 2014
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