Driver's mate who knows his stuff
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ROAD TRANSPORT has supplied several worthy .:ontenders in the BBC Mastermind corn petition, notably Fred Housego, who has become a minor celebrity. The latest is Robert Woodcock, a iriver's mate from Wigan, for Nhom I shall be rooting in the semi-final in April.
His apparent lack of selfassurance was no handicap in the preliminary round which, his face twitching with the effort of concentration, he won by one point over two equal seconds. What he lost in the test on his specialised subject — European history from 1870-1945 — he made up with his exceptional general knowledge.
REPLYING to the AA campaign for the independent testing of police radar "guns" to measure speed, "a Home Office spokesman .. . said Bovernment tests would be proof enough," a regional newspaper reported. Just trust the Bower boys at Westminster.