My success is based on customer service, use of a modern new car, patience and a thorough knowledge of D.S.A. test marking procedures and local driving test routes. Nervous pupils are very welcome.

I started as a professional Driving Instructor in 1998, training with BSM and working for them for three years before becoming disillusioned with large driving school policies and started up a driving school on my own.

Recently, I was asked to take part in a BBC1 programme, Mirror Signal Manoeuvre, following a pupil through her last few lessons before taking the Driving Test, which we both enjoyed very much.

Over the years I've heard some awful stories about other driving schools. However, here you won't find an instructor shouting at their pupils, no embarrassing passengers watching you from the back seat and no detours to the shops or the instructor's home or bank etc. I turn up on time and I don't take phone calls during a lesson. You get one full hour driving on a route to match your ability on each and every lesson. I only cancel lessons due to mechanical failure which is a rare event indeed.

I use petrol cars as I find that diesel cars handle significantly differently to their petrol counterparts. I do find that people who learnt in a petrol car have little in the way of problems adjusting to a diesel, but not necessarily when it's the other way round.

Any training car I use will be clean and tidy and less than one year old, and will have dual controls.

To ensure high standards, I do not employ any other instructors. This has the added benefit to customers, in that I can build a rapport with clients over the time they spend learning to drive. Quite simply, I just don't trust anyone else. So no part-trained instructors here, unlike many driving schools who train up instructors whilst not mentioning to the customer that their instructor has not qualified yet AND charging their pupils full lesson price at the same time.