Cut The Costs Of Your Summer Holiday (The Motley Fool) Donna Werbner rounds up five great ways to save on your summer holiday - from mobile phone calls to car hire and cold hard cash.

Independents lose Welcome finance option (AM Online) Welcome Car Finance, a leading sub-prime car loan lender, has pulled funding from all of its independent dealerships to focus solely on its own outlets.

Major rule changes eyed for vehicles-for-hire (Boca Raton News) If you hire someone to drive you places, or if your literally on the other side of the car and operate the so-called “vehicle for hire”, you’ll be interested in the workshop discussion tomorrow among Palm Beach County Commissioners.

Regional Roundup (Lodi News-Sentinel) Do you get around Lodi or Galt without a car? Do you walk, bike or bus out of necessity, or because you want to help the environment?

King of the mountain bike (CNN Money) When Mike Sinyard started importing Italian bike parts in 1974, his toughest challenge was finding space to store them inside his eight- by 30-foot trailer.

Teen's relationship worried friends, mom (The Wichita Eagle) After one of Amy Keeler's best friends started having sex with a grown man, Keeler said, she felt uncomfortable. After all, she and Chelsea Brooks were only 13 years old, in seventh grade, and they were sneaking out to meet Elgin Ray Robinson Jr. Ray, as they called him, had striking good looks, drove a car and was out of high school. He was the step-brother of one of Chelsea's other friends. ...

Hire Limousine Service either For Business or Personal Use (Turks.US) Do you want to impress your guests for your event? It is important to impress your guests or business partners during the occasion. Of course, if you have an event, you will do all the things needed to make it a perfect one.

Recent movie releases (Detroit Free Press) "Baby Mama" ** Tina Fey plays a successful and single Philadelphia career woman who hears her biological clock ticking and decides to hire a gum-chewing Jersey girl to be the surrogate mother of her child. It's not as funny as it sounds. Rated PG-13; crude humor, language. 1 hour, 36 minutes. By Robert W. Butler, McClatchy Newspapers.

Car hire drivers stung on fees (The Scotsman: Business) CAR hire customers are being hoodwinked into signing up for cheap car hire in Europe, only to be stung on expensive charges for excess waiver policies and other extras, accord

Elephant accosts Swiss tourists driving through South African game park (Times Online) Hluhluwe A Swiss couple had an unnerving encounter with an African elephant after it took a liking to their hire car during a visit to Hluhluwe game park in South Africa.