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Office Minister Alan Stewart raised a pickaxe to anti-road protesters in his Glasgow constituency, he was boldly (if somewhat foolishly) going where no other minister had chosen to go.
It's one thing to calla spade a spade but altogether another to brandish hand tools in anger.
Fortunately, he did the decent thing and resigned. His sin was deemed greater than., for example, allowing dangerous convicts to come and go from prison as they please, as is the wont of Home Secretary, Michael Howard. Had he used a shovel one might have said he dug his own grave.
Further south, the DOT has revealed that protest against the extension of the Ml I has accounted for most of a .C20m overspend on the project. Extra security' has cost £6m for each of the road's 3.5 miles.
0 list when you thought it was safe to go near the water a Hawk-eyed correspondent spotted this predatory Reliant Scimitar parked across the road from the beach in Hastings.
Sussex. Who said there are too many sharks on the road already?
It is not imown whether the vehicle is amphibious or whether it eats cyclists and other small road users but I suspect we could be looking at the fin end of the wedge.