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24th February 2005
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IN THE NEWS

Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way :he newspapers have covered the world of transport :his week.

It's a disconcerting feeling when you find yourself agreeing with Richard Littlejohn's regular diatribe in The Sun.

g-But in light of recent headlines about the soaring profits Shell and BP are currently enjoying, it needed someone to remind he masses (well, 3.3 million currant bun readers) how much 1 the price of petrol and diesel is siphoned off by the Treasury. North making the point, or even nailing it to the wall in sky-high 'eon capital letters, with a mixture of bile and possibly the odd Ilegal immigrant too, as is Littlejohn's inimitable style.

No doubt a page 3 stunna will explain the vagaries of the uel market in due course.

'We are concerned for his safety because he's missing," ami-Dade Detective Randy Rossman said, before adding: We suspect foul play." Not an outrageous presumption, .-;onsidering truck driver Angel Ricardo Mendoza had been, Dy this point, missing for more than two weeks along with the 3.6 million nickels he was transporting to the Federal Reserve 3ank in New Orleans.

CNN reported that the 20-tonne load was worth $180,000 Ind despite Mendoza's truck and trailer subsequently being ound, the lorry driver and lucre, curiously, were keeping a ow profile. The FBI is now investigating; Rossman declined o indulge in speculation on how anyone could cash in, or pend, so many nickels. Pity.

)ne in ten women confessed to dating a man because they liked )is motor, according to The Sun. And three-quarters admitted he make of car would tempt them to ogle the driver—the more mpensive the vehicle, the more attractive the driver became. \nd who had carried out this le-affirming research?


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