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The Greek's apprehension of British plane spotters is making sense.
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This week the Greek prime minister said that his government was prepared to deploy the army, navy and air force to stop illegal immigrants entering the country. Clearly the customary anorak, so well known and revered in the UK as the serious hobbyist's garment, seem to the Greeks the kind of clothing belonging to people who have nowhere better to sleep than the airport.
But there is an upside for the spotters in question: apparently Flight International is offering a prize to anyone with the serial number of a Greek warplane built after 1960.
Mechanics are getting all uppity apparently, about soap operas. With the acute skills shortage in our industry, the Institute of the Motor industry is worried that scriptwriters for EastEnders and other soaps portray spannermen and motor dealers as dodgy geezers who you wouldn't trust with a kid's pocket money, let alone your business.
They would prefer to see honest, hardworking (sexy, wealthy and debonair go without saying) mechanics and dealers (or truck drivers) who will inspire kids to enter the business. Forget double dealing, murder, rape and organised crime...this week's storyline centres on a burned-out clutch In Mark Fowler's van. (With, presumably, another mechanic in the background shouting "'ere no' Leave it aht...'e ain't worth it!" , etc. Now where's the remote...?