Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013. The Ultimate Motor Show

Today sees the 20th anniversary of The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013 in Sussex.

The three day event is a much anticipated festival of the best of motoring and this year’s Festival of Speed also marks the 50th anniversaries for the Porsche 911, McLaren, Lamborghini, along with the 40th anniversaries for the WRC and Le Mans' 90th.

Motoring enthusiasts will be treated to a show of all of these cars and can even see how they fair on Goodwood's famed hill-climb and expanded rally stage. And if that’s not enough to whet the appetite, Porsche 911 will be taking centre stage at Goodwood House, with a specially commissioned sculpture.

Along with the array of stunning cars, the 20th Goodwood Festival of Speed will also see some of the most exciting modern supercars entering the Michelin Supercar Run, with a record number of debuts at this year’s Festival of Speed.

McLaren aficionados will be very pleased to see the world debut of the McLaren P1, along with its rival, the Porsche 918 Spyder and the Jaguar C-X75.

The 20th Goodwood Festival of Speed will be taking a peek at the cutting edge of automotive design and innovation, with the cars like the Giugiaro Parcour, Peugeot Onyx, Jaguar Project 7, Renault Twin'Run and Volkswagen XL1. The Festival will also be hosting a first looks at Eric Clapton's Ferrari SP12 EC, the Rolls-Royce Wraith and Alfa Romeo 4C.

Along with the usual exhibition of pioneering historic race, grand prix, American greats and touring cars from yesteryear through to current cars, the Festival of Speed will be paying homage, with a celebration of land-speed-record cars.

For the connoisseurs, The Festival of Speed, there will a demonstration of an array of rare and exotic concours vehicles including icons from the 60’s like Aston Martin and Ferrari, GTs from the 50s, some of the most iconic Porsche 911s and some rarely seen concept cars from motor shows across the decades.

Claims For Whiplash Cost British Insurers £2billion A Year And Add Around £90 To Every Premium

LV Insurance share some of the fraudulent and less than honest personal injury claims that land in their in-tray.

In one claim, a woman tried to make a fraudulent claim, after she attended a screening of The Life of PI and was made to allegedly ‘jumped back in her seat’ in a scene where a tiger hurtles from the water in the 3D epic.

The woman subsequently went on to claim £1,000 costs for cancelling her holiday, claiming that she was unable to travel, because she suffered the alleged whiplash injury at the cinema.

Fortunately, good sense prevailed and her claim was considered outrageous and was not paid out.

In another blatant bogus whiplash claim, a woman applied for a £3,000 compensation pay out for injuries suffered in a car accident. However, the claim failed to succeed when it was discovered that the woman was actually in hospital giving birth when the alleged accident took place.

Further examples of less than honest claims being made include a professional boxer - who after making a £10,000 personal injury claim for an alleged injury in a car accident and appealed that his doctor warned that he would be out of action for months - was later discovered online winning a boxing match, six weeks after the alleged accident.

More astonishing evidence of fraudulent - and less than well thought out compensation claims - involved a woman who was claiming £2,500 for injuries allegedly suffered by herself and her daughter in a car accident. The claim was rejected after shared with a friend on Facebook, her relief that her daughter wasn’t in the car at time of the accident.

John O’Roarke, managing director of LV car insurance said, “Fraud has been seen as a ‘victimless’ crime for far too long but the reality is that it drives up premiums for honest motorists.”

Convicted Killers Make Whiplash Claims After Being Involved In Road Traffic Accident On Way To Court

A gang of criminals are to claim compensation for whiplash after their prison vans crashed into each other on the way to a murder trial.

The trio are in line to pocket up to £2,500 each in taxpayers’ cash even though none of them were admitted to hospital with any injuries.

As well as ‘whiplash’, they are said to be claiming for ‘hurt feelings’ because they wrongly thought the van was under attack from gangland rivals

The claims – made by three defendants in the Dale Cregan trial – were dubbed ‘ridiculous’ and ‘an insult’ by MPs last night.

It is also understood that up to 12 prison officers are planning to make compensations claims in connection with the incident, even though only four were admitted to hospital.

Mrs Patel added it was ‘wrong’ for the prison staff to follow suit and make their own claims for the incident.

Damian Gorman, 38, Francis Dixon, 37, and Ryan Hadfield, 29, were on their way to be tried for murder when two prison vans carrying nine defendants collided

The two vans, one of which contained Dale Cregan, the killer of Police Constables Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, were travelling along the M6 to Preston Crown Court when they shunted one another on May 24.

The accident caused damage to  both prison vans and minor damage to a police car but Cregan was not injured.

Sources say Gorman, Dixon and Hadfield are going to claim for whiplash injuries while other prisoners in the vans are going to launch action for damages saying they thought the vans were under attack.

A prison source said: ‘All the cons are going to claim and about 12 prison staff.’

'The prisoners were said to want compensation for ‘fearing for their safety’.

In April, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced he would bar prisoners from claiming legal aid to fund complaints and compensation claims against the criminal justice system.

But it is thought these latest claims will come in before the new rules are enforced.

Philip Davies MP for Shipley said: ‘I think most right-minded people would see that it’s a vexatious ridiculous claim and it shouldn’t even be considered as far as I’m concerned.’

Yesterday Gorman was convicted of the gangland murder of Mark Short, 23, and jailed for a minimum of 33 years.

Dixon, who was released on licence after receiving a life sentence for armed robbery, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, 46. Hadfield, who had previous convictions for money laundering, was acquitted of the murder of Mark Short.

A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘We robustly defend all cases as far as the evidence allows.’

Last month it emerged that half of all whiplash claims from car crashes, which typically lead to £2,500 compensation, are fraudulent. It has been suggested that makes it a £1billion-a-year scam.