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please contact Backfire, Commercial Motor, Rm H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey 3M2 5A5, or fax 020
8652 8969. Alternatively you can e-mail melanie.bammend@rbice.uk.
NarglAs5.WT"t has been fined 1235 for
driving at 60mph in a dOmph zone. Not unusual you might say, so why the "hapless"? Well, the speed camera which caught Fields speeding had been fitted by Fields himself, who confessed that he couldn't remember where he had positioned It Ile adds that ft has now been dismantled and he has "smashed it up". We're not sure whether he used his boot for this operation or whether he used the hammer which he keeps in the cupboard in the garage... or is it on the shelf?
Peoples Fuel Lobby leader Andrew Spence has long commented about his busy dual role as fuel activist and farmer. This was made clear to a reporter at CMthe other day when he called Spence up trying to find out if his one-man Ghe Guevara-style blockade of the FTA and RHA's head of-fice was still due to go ahead. In a confusion of noise the conversation went like this:
"Hello Andrew."
"Baa." (Sounds of screeching.) "Andrew?"
"Baa. Baa." (More screeching) "Everything alright?"
"I'm with the sheep!"
"Hight. You sound exhausted." "Shearing them".
"Baa. Baa.
(Noise stops) "Can you call after the SHEARING?". "Oh. Right!" Police believe the gang who stole 15 postboxes may be trying to sell them in the US. They targeted traditional red postboxes in rural North Wales: police say their only description of the gang is of two or three men wearing reflective jackets with a white Transit, It is feared that the gang may now steal more British institutions for export to the States, including Nelson's Column, cream teas, Wimbledon, retired majors in cravattes and the Queen Mum.
Get ready for some crushing disappointment all you readers out there with scented invitations to ambassadors' receptions this summer. (And no we don't mean the traditional "rivers of blood" barbecues of Big Phil, your "mechanic mate"). The theft of a truckload of Ferrero Becher chocolates from a West Midlands last week is set to leave you literally "open mouthed" with terror and hunger when you line up next to the cosmetically altered socialites at the "pink champagne" stage. What could replace the chocolate balls which starred in that slightly disturbing dubbed Germanic television advert? What British delicacy will possibly make the orange-skinned ladies with their glazed stares simper "you are really zpoileeng us"? ...Fruity Starburst anyone?
Quote of the week from Renault Trucks UK boss Yves Garin: "The customer is everything.., but not stupid!