1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202 
Melia watch
Page 12
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
IN THE NEWS
Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.
If you're talking breaks for freedom, this is up there with Cooler King Steve McQueen's effort in The Great Escape. The cow, well call him, ahem, the Moo-ler King, leapt out of a moving Scania transporter onto the M60 and lolloped away across a golf course, heading for pastures new. Unfortunately the police didn't take too kindly to this bovine break for the border and oromptly shot the Moo-ler King dead. So perhaps it was more like the conclusion of Butch Cassidy and the Sun dance Kid, without Burt Bacharach's crooning.
The BBC news website reports Robin Williams admitted two charges under animal welfare legislation and was fined 21,000 after the animal escaped from his truck in Greater Manchester last July. He also admitted failing to transport the cow in an "escape-proof vehicle" on the journey from Anglesey to York. Williams said the incident left him traumatised and was a "million-to-one" — uncannily similar to the odds of survival given to the PoWs breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
More proud, English defiance; this time from churchgoer Liz Nelson who refused to let a traffic warden follow his orders