For example my Toyota Celica current Band E for which I pay £170 per year for road tax… I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I read that from 2009 my Celica was moving to band J meaning that I would have to pay £260 and from 2010 onwards £270 per year!

Some unlucky high band car drivers will have to pay a special rate on any new car they buy for the first year after 2010.

Once again drivers are hit hard when the government decides that I needs some more cash!

Here is the new tax banding’s that Mr Darling has released.

If you would like to see what you’ll be paying from 2009-2010 and 2010 onwards then parkers have setup a handy tax calculator

• Winning Silverstone by over 68 seconds in the wet.
• This week he posted an impressive lap of 1m14.872s at Hockenheim which remained unbeaten throughout the two days testing.

I think he means business leading up to Germany next week.

Rumours about a possible Donington bid for the race had circulated in recent weeks amid the continuing uncertainty over Silverstone’s future as a Formula 1 venue, but this morning’s announcement that a 2010 deal had been secured still came as a shock.

Finally the uncertainty is over,

declared Bernie Ecclestone.

A contract has been signed with Donington Park and the future of the British Grand Prix is now secure.

We wanted a world-class venue for Formula 1 in Britain, something that the teams and British F1 fans could be proud of.

The major development plans for Donington will give us exactly that: a venue that will put British motorsport back on the map.

The 2.5-mile Leicestershire circuit will require substantial redevelopment to bring it up to F1 standards.

Although Donington hosted the legendary 1993 European Grand Prix and is still the venue for the British round of the MotoGP world championship, its facilities are not on a par with modern F1 tracks and it has been criticised by the MotoGP fraternity in recent years.

Silverstone held the first world championship F1 race in 1950 and has been the sole home of the British GP since 1987, having previously alternated with Aintree and then Brands Hatch.

But its future has been in question for over a decade, amid regular criticism of its facilities from Ecclestone, and turbulent negotiations between his Formula One Management organisation and Silverstone’s owner the British Racing Drivers’ Club.

After many years of patient but fruitless negotiation with the BRDC, we are delighted that Bernie has nevertheless been able to ensure that the British Grand Prix will keep its place on the Formula 1 world championship calendar,

said FIA president Max Mosley.

We understand that the development programme planned for Donington will achieve the very high standards we and FOM expect from a modern F1 circuit.

Finally, British Formula 1 fans will get the grand prix venue they deserve.

Silverstone had recently received planning permission to proceed with a huge redevelopment programme that it believed would bring its facilities up to the standard that Ecclestone demanded.

But its future had also depended on finding sufficient outside backing, and Ecclestone was critical of the British government for not providing Silverstone with this support.

I am sorry that we could not have helped Silverstone to raise the money to carry out the circuit improvements and run Formula 1,

he said.

I believe that the government should have supported them, which would have cost probably less than .002 percent of the government’s commitment for the Olympic Games.

It is believed that the Donington revamp will be carried out using private financial backing.

Donnington last hosted F1 back in 1993

The Spaniard returned to Renault in 2007, he has yet to achieve anything close to the previous stint in which he won his two world championships. This year is turning out to be the least successful season of his career since his he joined Minardi in 2001.

I’m sure Renault bosses and Alonso are looking forward to the weekend ahead as it is the French team’s home race, with only nine points on the board they will be looking to push the cars to show that they still can win races.

There is much speculation about Alonso being linked with drives elsewhere for the next, and following seasons, he has yet to make up his mind on his future at Renault but has said he plans to announce his plans later in the season once a clearer picture of its form shows in later races.

I don’t know [if I will stay with Renault],

quoted at a news conference on Monday.

It’s not been a good year so far and it has been worse than we expected.
We have not been on the podium, let alone won a race.
We have a lot of work to do. I will take a decision on my future towards the end of the year when we’ll be able to see how far we have come.

Any how enjoy drooling over this one:

First you’ll need the following:

• A permission hacked S60 phone, follow my previous guide, hack S60 file permissions
• If you have a Symbian 9.2(feature pack 1) device, download installserver92 file.
• If you have a Symbian 9.1(pre feature pack 1) device, download installserver91 file.
• File browser eg. Y-browser, X-plore.

The list at the bottom of the post will help you decide which file you need to download.

Extract installserver.exe from the appropriate zip you have downloaded.
Copy it from your PC to your memory card, I put it into Memory Card/Apps
On your phone load up Y-browser and copy it from E:\Apps (If you are using the same location as me)
to C:\SYS\BIN

Remember you must have a permissions hacked phone otherwise you will not be able to see C:\SYS

That’s it, You can no install any Unsigned application without the need to selfsign each one, just install like normal and you will no longer receive certificate errors.

Here’s the list of devices to symbian version

Symbian 9.1 devices:

Nokia E61i
Nokia E65
Nokia N93i
Nokia E62
Nokia E50
Nokia N77
Nokia N93
Nokia N73
Nokia N80
Nokia N71
Nokia N92
Nokia E70
Nokia E60
Nokia E61
Nokia N91 8GB
Nokia 3250
Nokia 5500

Symbian 9.2 devices:

Nokia N82
Nokia E51
Nokia N81
Nokia E90 Communicator
Nokia N76
Nokia N95
Nokia N95-3 NAM
Nokia N95 8GB
Nokia N81 8GB
Nokia 5700 XpressMusic
Nokia 6110 Navigator
Nokia 6120 classic
Nokia 6121 classic
Nokia 6124 classic
Nokia 6290

First off, a couple of things you will need:

• You need to be running windows XP/Vista
• Nokia PC Suite 6.85 or earlier

Nokia have patched newer versions of this software to block this hack.
Already have a newer version of Nokia PC Suite? Uninstall it, download and install version 6.84.

• Download ActivePython ActivePython, install it.
• Download and install PySerial.
• Download and install AppTRK (to your phone).
• Download Hack Perms Script.

With everything prepared lets get on with it…

Use USB to connect your phone to your PC in PC Suite mode.

We need to find out what port the computer is using to connect to your phone, we do this by on of the following methods:

Win XP: Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>Ports
Win Vista: Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Device Manager>Ports.

Look for your phone in the list, in my case my phone is labelled ‘Nokia N95 USB (COM14)’
Note down this number in brackets after COM, you will need it later.

On your phone now, open the application AppTRK (you should have installed in preparation for this hack.
Your phone will ask to connect to a bluetooth device, click cancel when it does.
In AppTRK Go to options>settings>connection and change it to USB. Go back to the AppTRK’s main screen and selection options then connect.

You should see the following:

Now open up the Hack Perm python file you downloaded in notepad on your PC, press CTRL+F and search for “ser =” (Without the quotes, ofc). The line should read:

ser = serial.Serial(5) # I have COM6

Change the number 5 in the brackets to 1 less than the number you noted down from the device manager earlier, in my case it was 14, so I enter 13 in the brackets.

Save the file. (CTRL + s)

Once you have done this, just double click the Hack Perms file, if the window opens and closes so quickly you can’t see anything, there was a problem, check all the previous steps and make sure you are using Nokia PC Suite no later than version 6.85.

If window stays open, wait for about 5 seconds, you should see this, notice the “!!!!!!!!!!!candidate!!!!!!!!!!!”, This means the hack was successful, the program will exit just after displaying this notice.

Now your phone is ready to allow you to install any unsigned applications.