How we verify our news
Every motoring story on Garage.co.uk is checked before it is published. Here is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Our motoring news is produced by the New Reg group newsroom and published to Garage.co.uk. Speed only matters if the facts hold, so a story is not published until it clears a verification step.
A story is confirmed in one of two ways. Either it is reported by an official source, such as the DVSA, the DVLA, the Department for Transport or another government body, in which case that source is named and linked at the foot of the article. Or, where there is no single official source, the same facts must be reported independently by several separate outlets before we publish. Where a story names a specific vehicle, we also check the claim against official DVSA MOT history and DVLA records.
Anything that does not meet that bar is held back rather than published. Our stories are written in plain British English, and articles carry a named author and the date they were published.
We correct openly. If we get something wrong, we fix it and the article is updated. If a story no longer stands up, we take it down.
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