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tonnes have taken a severe knock — literally. For a lorry recently ran into the Transport Secretary's Ministerial limousine.
Fortunately (I suppose? — after all, it is the season of goodwill) the Great Man was not in it at the time, and happi
ly his chauffeur was unhurt, but a door was severely damaged. Finding a replacement has proved difficult, so the car has been off the road. Meanwhile Channon has to suffer the indignity of travelling in an inferior vehicle (pause for collective sigh of sympathy from London Bus passengers).
Channon's office refuses to give any details of the vehicles involved, pleading "security", but my Marsham Street mole tells me that Channon is "very irritated" by the incident. In the interests of the 40-tonne campaign let us hope that the damage was done by a light van, not a 38-tonne artic. As Alexander Pope said: "What mighty contests rise from trivial things."