Personal number plate, Say it with numbers

From as little as £245 you can now buy a personalised plate from the DVLA, and what better way is there of saying something about yourself - your name, perhaps - than with a collection of letters and numbers assembled to form a vague representation of the thing you're trying to say?

The problem is that the DVLA actually employs someone to pick out the plates that might be worth something then make sure they're sold for maximum profit - so you have to think outside the box. It means that if you want to spell your dad's name, chances are that plate's already been sold, or it's prohibitively expensive. The best bet is to go for initials, prefixed by a letter and one or two numbers that mean something - the day of your dad's birth, for example. Or yours, which you can then give to your dad as a reminder of the single greatest day of his life.

And if that appeals, Yahoo! has joined forces with the DVLA to get you a discount on a plate if you buy through our site. Simply go here (www.regtransfers.co.uk/yahoo/), type in your details, and we'll give you a special discount code that you can use when buying online. Simple.

Mark Nichol