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MOTORISTS SAVE
£50 MILLION THROUGH BRAKES4LIFE INITIATIVE
A unique pledge from one of
the UK's leading independent car servicing and repair networks is
helping drive down the cost of motoring; collectively saving owners
£50million to date.
Brakes4Life is a lifetime guarantee from Halfords Autocentres aimed
at reducing the cost of vehicle maintenance whilst encouraging
owners to take care of their vehicle's brakes.
Since introducing Brakes4Life 18 months ago Halfords Autocentres,
which operates over 280 garages across the UK, has seen
unprecedented levels of demand; signing-up over 62,000 customers to
the Brakes4Life package; an average of one every four minutes.
Halfords Autocentres' Rory Carlin said:- "At a time when
insurance and fuel price rises are pushing up the cost of motoring,
Brakes4life offers car owners value for money and peace of mind.
One payment not only guards against future unexpected brake-related
costs but positively encourages owners to take better care of these
vital safety components."
Every customer who buys brake pads or shoes from a Halfords
Autocentre nationwide receives the Brakes4life guarantee; a
market-leading pledge that then applies to any car that a customer
goes on to own and can save the average car owner in the region of
£816* over their driving lifetime.
Brake pads and shoes are amongst the most frequently replaced
components on a car and Halfords Autocentres data shows that one in
five of the 800,000 cars it helps to maintain each year needs them
replaced.
Rory Carlin added:- "This can leave motorists facing
additional unexpected costs when they take their car in for a
service or MOT. However, Brakes4Life removes that risk and we find
that when we explain that it really does cover them and their
current as well as future car they own it results in some surprised
and very satisfied customers."
Brakes4life has won the approval of Plain English Campaign, the
group that works tirelessly to untangle complicated offers and
confusing terms and conditions. It has praised Halfords Autocentres
for bringing a product to market that offers customers a transparent
and easy to understand benefit.
Brakes4life is only available at Halfords Autocentres. For further
information visit:-
halfordsautocentres.com/brakes4life.
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Celebrate 100
years of medical breakthroughs funded by you
50% of people in the North
West don't know their taxes fund medical research in the UK,
according to a new YouGov survey run by the UK's oldest research
Council, the Medical Research Council (MRC). The results of the
on-line survey of 2,190 adults in the UK were announced today on the
official one hundredth birthday of the MRC, which boasts 29 Nobel
Prize winners and a host of medical breakthroughs, all funded by the
public purse.
To celebrate 100 years of life-saving science, MRC research centres
up and down the UK are opening their doors - inviting the public in
or bringing their science out to local communities to showcase the
fruits of their labour. A range of different events, talks,
experiments and exhibitions will be held today and over the next two
weeks to tell the hidden story of health improvements funded by the
taxpayer through the MRC and to introduce the remarkable scientists
who make it all happen.
Of the 150 people asked in Liverpool, only 23% of people said
they've met a medical research scientist, despite the fact that life
changing science often happens right on their doorstep. When asked
which disease or condition they would study if they were a medical
research scientist, people in the North West gave a full spectrum of
issues close to their heart, with cancer and dementia being the most
common.
Sir John Savill, Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council,
said;- "It's important for people to know how crucial their
own money has been in uncovering health improvements that have saved
millions of lives. If I asked the person on the street, 'did you
know you've helped invent the MRI scanner and DNA fingerprinting, or
helped make skin grafts work or proved the link between smoking and
cancer?' … he'd probably look blankly at me. And these discoveries
are just the tip of the iceberg of what the taxpayer has funded -
through the MRC; over the course of its history. On the MRC's 100
year birthday today, I'd like everyone to celebrate their own
contribution to making the UK a world leader in medical research.
Long may MRC-funded research continue to have such an impact on the
health and wealth of the UK and beyond."
In Liverpool, the MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science is holding a
series of public exhibitions, talks and films at the historic
Victoria Gallery and Museum on 20 June 2013. Scientists will be on hand
to demonstrate the global impact of medical research in areas such
as ageing, arthritis, drug safety science, genomics research and
personalised medicine. Find out more about the role of medical
science in society and how MRC research is helping to improve the
health of people in Merseyside, the UK and the world. Watch a film
for a unique insight into our labs and hospitals, and a
behind the scenes look at how our scientists investigate drug
safety. Detailed information of the range of events happening in
locations across the UK are available
online.
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