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IN THE NEWS
Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the transport industry this week.
As the summer strolls gently through August, editors struggle with an annual problem: global geopolitics aside, how do you fill news pages with copy? Traditionally at this time of year newspapers are scrabbling around for anything vaguely newsworthy while Tony Blair suns himself in the Caribbean and other MPs are reacquainted with their families. Why the car passenger is more So if you want to get a likely to be a Welsh woman survey noticed and talked about, this is the month to do it. "Why the car passenger is more likely to be a Welsh woman" was the Western Mails attempt to do just that.
"Fewer than two thirds of Welsh women can drive, according to official figures from the National Assembly," the piece began.
An interesting statistic, explained in the following three paragraphs as resulting from the less-than-startling fact that many older women never learned to drive.
However, the balance is being addressed, it seems, thanks to rising incomes and more upwardly mobile women.
Except the Western Mail needed to fill page five somehow. There was only one way to expand this story to fill those acres of space call for Maureen!
"Maureen Rees, the star of the BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary Driving School said it was more difficult to learn to drive as an older person." But far more hilarious, eh Maureen, if your pants-filling exploits on the goggle box a couple of years ago are anything to go by. The Mail's editor must have thanked his lucky stars Rees was Welsh.
But you can always rely on idiots to create some 'news' for you. The Yorkshire Post, for example, reported from Bainton, East Yorkshire: "Workers who were sent to install a Give Way sign for East Riding of Yorkshire Council... managed to mount the distinctive triangle L.upsidedown." God bless
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