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2nd February 2006
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Stuart Thomas brings you his regular round-up of the way our local and national press has covered th( wonderful world of road transport this week...

"G-string ghost puts willies up truckers." No, this challenging headline does not come courtesy of the Financial Times, bu other bastion of investigative journalism, the Daily Star.

And the boys in blue made an appearance with an appropriate use of resources: 'Within minutes, a police helicopter was on the scene using heatseeking equipment to locate the mystery girl.'

The Daily Star left its 'readers' in no doubt the truckers' ordeal on the M62 was real; it illustrated the story with an artist's impression of the sexy spook, superimposed onto the fog-bound carriageway of a motorway.

The news that Wally the Whale (copyright The Sun) had spent her last few blows taking in the sites and smells of London on a rescue barge was a sad moment in the capital's history. But it proved a lucrative occasion for the company running Westminster Council's parking meters.

According to BBC News: "Rescue charity workers who N n vain to save a whale found swimming up the River Thame are now facing a bill of more than E300 in parking fines."

Alan Knight, head of the rescue operation, was not amuse would have hoped they would give us the benefit of the dm Not so. Traffic wardens had, ahem, a whale of a time, and targeted volunteers' vehicles, despite their conspicuous 'me ambulance' signs. No doubt they're still blubbering (that's enough cetaceous levity — E.

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Organisations: Westminster Council
People: Alan Knight
Locations: London