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check your driving licence
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 19 Jan 2013 08:41 |
I have a pink paper one, it runs out the day before I am 70 so 2017, that's not so far off now :>(( If they use my passport photo for the new licences, I will hate it as it's an awful photo lol |
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Bobtanian | Report | 18 Jan 2013 23:35 |
The green ones should be just about finished soon, as at 70 you need a a new licence anyway........so its a photo jobby |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 18 Jan 2013 20:45 |
All European licences are being updated so that they are all the same . They will all look alike except for the English one will have UK on it the Spanish one Es etc. I know this because I had to go this week with mine and have a mini medical and a rolling road driving test. Under 65's will be renewed every 10 years and over 65's every 5 years. If you have 'Residence' in another country you will have to take the licence of that country when your current UK one expires or before that date if you want to. The process should be completed by January 2015. |
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Sharron | Report | 18 Jan 2013 12:14 |
I didn't like it when I had to change from a red book licence to a green paper one. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 18 Jan 2013 11:55 |
As am over 70 I have to renew every 3 years , just done mine online and they dont need another photo as did that the last time I renewed . Am looking a bit older than the piccy I think, but its still ME :-D |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 18 Jan 2013 11:38 |
*DVLC is going to write to all the people with the old green style licence and make them change to a photo one* |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 18 Jan 2013 11:07 |
I had to renew mine last year and did it online. I didn't have to send a new photo. As I had a current passport I just had to give them the number and somehow they electronically transferred my passport photo to my new driving licence. So now I look an old hag on both! |
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Jane | Report | 18 Jan 2013 08:17 |
Apparently DVLC is going to write to all the people with the old green style licence and make them change to a photo one. Not sure when this is happening. I'm sure its just to get more money out of us. |
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supercrutch | Report | 18 Jan 2013 01:05 |
:-D :-D :-D :-D |
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*$parkling $andie* | Report | 18 Jan 2013 00:51 |
lol@ AnnCardiff |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 18 Jan 2013 00:03 |
I look a bit like Marilyn Monroe on mine |
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supercrutch | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:57 |
Just done mine, they sent me a renewal invitation form. Had to do it as we changed address anyway. |
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Huia | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:48 |
The first time they issued licences (here in NZ) with photos on, I am sure they squashed my photo. My head looked shorter and wider. |
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Sharron | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:37 |
I think it was Sir Ernest Shackleton who said that, if you resemble your passport photograph then you are not well enough to travel. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:32 |
British driving licence doesn't have to be renewed? |
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Maryanna | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:28 |
My husband nearly got caught out last year. Luckily our daughter was on the ball and realised that she had had hers for ten years around that time and told her Dad which made him check his. I think a lot of people think they are valid almost forever like the old paper ones were. M |
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Bobtanian | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:26 |
apparently |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:25 |
My passport still has 3 years to go - and I look NOTHING like my photo! |
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Sharron | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:24 |
You would have to be stopped for something else before they wanted to have a look at your licence. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 17 Jan 2013 23:21 |
just thought I'd post that as a warning to the unwary |
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