In Witnesses To A Petrol Station Hold-up During Which Carl

Lancaster demanded money by threatening the cashier with a cucumber in a bag, may be forgiven for believing that they had stumbled on to the set of the TV programme Brad/es......

• The Hawk Is Aware That Uk Truckstops Offer Cabarets

to induce drivers to stop overnight, but has learnt from a feathered cousin in the US that a truckstop in Baltimore has signed up the oldest trouper of them all — God. Truckers......

• My Thanks To Bus Engineering Of Willesden, London For

supplying three splendid die-cast Routemaster model buses mounted on wooden plinths with a desk pen. Adaptable to most road conditions, the Red Rovers are equally handsome......