And here's the latest from the world of car registrations...

'Afternoon all. You'll be pleased to hear that my skull is free of stationery equipment today, so we can get on with some real news.

One of the areas of Numberplates.com which our members find most interesting is our constantly updated news section. Whenever any stories emerge on subjects of motoring or car registrations, we feature it on the website in an informative and impartial manner. No, that wasn't a typo - I actually did mean to write 'impartial'. If your first experience of Numberplates.com was coming across this blog, however, you probably won't have seen our previous news stories. I very much doubt your first instinct will be to read through two years' worth* of news, so I've very kindly aggregated some of the more humorous articles here for you.

• Controversial GAY number plate banned - This one gave us quite a chuckle. I'm not going to go off on one about the DVLA banning number plates as I'd be here all day, but the fact that H8 GAY was owned by a gay couple as an ironic joke really encapsulates the spirit of number plates. Of course, if it had been used by a homophobic bigot as message of hatred, the decision to withdraw it certainly have been justified. How on earth did it ever get issued anyway?
  
• "Nazi" number plates cause a stir in South Africa - In a similar vein to the above article, this could certainly cause some offence. Shanaaz Ismail displayed NAZI-WP on her car in South Africa as her nickname is Nazi - a contraction of Shanaaz. The South African authorities, however, had other ideas.
• Don's £12 number plate now worth £10,000 - A perfect example of how lucrative investing in number plates can be. Don Hampson purchased DON 80 for £12 back in 1968 and it has recently been valued at over £10,000.
• British cyclists may need number plates - Speaking as an occasional cyclist, this plan was a complete load of old twaddle. Fortunately, it seems to have fallen by the wayside. The proponent of this sheer lunacy? None other than Ken Livingstone.
• Number plate sells for £3.5million - This was the big one - the world record for a personalised number plate. The plate, reading simply '5', was bought by a man who claimed the number had no significance to him whatsoever. He just happened to be passing with £3.5million in his pocket.
• Losing £10,000 on private number plate 'not an issue' for Harry - Another man for whom money is no object. Maybe he'd like to do my job for a few months.

The tendency is for new stories to be added to the site on an (almost) daily basis, so it's worth checking the front page of Numberplates.com regularly. Right, I suppose I'd better do some real work...

*This phrase became a bone of contention in our office this afternoon. However, after unsuccessfully consulting our faithful 1957 copy of Fowler's Modern English, we turned to Google who confirmed the legitimate presence of the apostrophe. Sorted.