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IN THE NEWS
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Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the transport industry this week.
"Wayne Rooney had an amazing escape yesterday after his car was rammed by a 23-ton truck," we read in the redtops.
This so-called miraculous result would be just that, if you thought Rooney's "19ft Cadillac Escalade... £40,000 American car" was made of tissue paper. Instead, despite the AR Hendricks' wagon completely knackering the passenger side of the footballer's Stateside gas guzzler, the barrel-shaped scouser walked away unharmed and ready to strut his stuff in pursuit of an inflated pig's bladder. Which must have brought untold relief to the Liverpool fan driving the truck.
Meanwhile, The Scotsman reported on one industrious person, 18-year-old James Gray, whose mum refused to pick him up following a night out. Unfortunately, he had drunk enough to convince himself walking was for wimps and that a parked tractor offered up a far more luxurious ride home.
"I was just trying to get home," he says. "My mother wouldn't pick me up. It's stupid I should have got a taxi, but I had no money."
Apparently "Gray came to a halt only when he ploughed into the wall of a former post office." The penitent mechanic got 140 hours of community service and an 18-month driving ban; there was no word on whether Gray's mum had learnt her lesson.