Tax your car online via the website.

Do not apply for your tax tisc before the 15th of the month (before its due to start)

Documents you will need:
v11 (your reminder letter - top right)
you can still tax your car without this document, enter your car details etc, manually. (ie car reg)
v5c (your log book - the document number, halfway down on the right hand side)

You can also make a SORN: ie, if your vehicle is off the road

 https://www.direct.gov.uk/taxdisc (Opens in new window)

Update, replace or apply for a driving licence online.

 direct.gov.uk/DrivingLicence  (Opens in new window)

A-Z of Butterflies and Moths.
Take part in campaigns or surveys, advice on helping protect disappearing species and simple steps to improve habitats.

Butterfly conservation website (Opens in new window) 

 

Packed with information, this is the official website for the National insect week.
Take part in surveys and studies, identify insects, stacks of information.
Well worth a look!

National insect website (Opens in new window)

 

A great resource for public, schools and parents alike.
Are you on the "mega map?"

Year of food and farming website (Opens in new window)

 

An excellent charity/nature website. Their forum is one of the best I've come across online, as regards nature and gardening advice. A fantastic resource for all things "green."

The Royal Horticultural Society website (Opens in new window)

Packed full of information as you'd expect, to back up the programs that can be watched on BBCi player if you miss one.

Gardeners world (Opens new window)

Well worth a look for general advice to in season vegetables and garden wildlife.

Do you know a small piece of waste land in your area that could do with a few flowers growing on it?
How about a small roadside patch of soil that never has anything but weeds growing in it?
Then this website is for you!

 Guerrilla gardening (Opens in new window)

Excellent forum, with excellent ideas... have a look!

If you are with BT for your broadband/adsl max service, this is the link for their service speedtester.
Enter your telephone number (including area code) and click start.

 BT speedtester (Opens in new window)

If you are having problems with your download speed, its worth cutting and pasting the results onto a notepad file and saving to your desktop, then you have references to quote when reporting a fault.
Try running the test at different times of the day.