MSA Newslink November 2021
Motor Schools Association, driver training and testing, road safety
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Regional News/Views<br />
First impressions count<br />
Mike Yeomans on the continuing problems<br />
in securing L-test slots – pg 32<br />
Time to move to a slower lane<br />
Thoughts of <strong>MSA</strong> GB Western’s Guy Annan – pg 33<br />
Out of region tests<br />
Trips to Luton and Cambridge shouldn’t be needed just<br />
for an L-test, says Alex Brownlee – pg 34<br />
Book now<br />
Final reminder about your regional training events<br />
and AGMs – pg 36<br />
Keep in<br />
contact with<br />
the <strong>MSA</strong><br />
<strong>MSA</strong> GB area contacts are<br />
here to answer your<br />
queries and offer any<br />
assistance you need.<br />
Get in touch if you have<br />
any opinions on how <strong>MSA</strong><br />
GB is run, or wish to<br />
comment on any issue<br />
affecting the driver<br />
training and testing<br />
regime.<br />
Features<br />
We need a new L-test regime<br />
With all these changes going about, why can’t<br />
one be to give us a testing regime fit for the<br />
21st century, asks Rod Came – Pg 16<br />
The driver’s ‘Guardian Angel’<br />
Tom Harrington looks at Electronic Stability<br />
Control – and why it is known as the driver’s<br />
‘Guardian Angel’ – Pg 26<br />
L-Test changes: it was ever thus...<br />
Mike Yeomans continues his look at the<br />
history of the driving test – Pg 30<br />
Keep in<br />
touch 1<br />
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info@msagb.com.<br />
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ring on 01625 664501.<br />
Keep in touch:<br />
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Q&A with...Fiona McMeekin<br />
Looking after disabled and hard of hearing pupils is<br />
challenging but rewarding – pg 38<br />
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Follow <strong>MSA</strong> GB on social media<br />
n National Chairman:<br />
Peter Harvey MBE<br />
natchair@msagb.com<br />
n Deputy National<br />
Chairman: Geoff Little<br />
n Scotland:<br />
Alex Buist<br />
chair.os@msagb.com<br />
n North East:<br />
Mike Yeomans<br />
chair.ne@msagb.com<br />
n North West:<br />
Graham Clayton<br />
chair.nw@msagb.com<br />
n East Midlands:<br />
Kate Fennelly<br />
chair.em@msagb.com<br />
n West Midlands:<br />
Geoff Little<br />
info@msagb.com<br />
n Western:<br />
Arthur Mynott<br />
chair.ow@msagb.com<br />
n Eastern:<br />
Paul Harmes<br />
chair.oe@msagb.com<br />
n Greater London:<br />
Tom Kwok<br />
chair.gl@msagb.com<br />
n South East:<br />
Fenella Wheeler<br />
chair.se@msagb.com<br />
n South Wales:<br />
All enquiries to<br />
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