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please contact Backfire, Connorcial Motor, Rm H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, or fax 020 8652 8971. Alternatively you can e-mail melanie.hammond4rbi.co.uk.

Findingit difficult to park your truck? If your name was Edith Murphy, all your problems would be solved. The aforementioned woman is mported to have become so frustrated by the lack of parking spaces in her village, she bought her own carpark.

After years of finding nownere to park her Mere in the narrow streets of Birstall, Leics, a derelict supermarket site proved hard to resist. She bought the land for £202,000 and gave it to her parish council to turn into a free, 70-space car park. She said: "I always find parking a pain and so does everyone else. That is why I was so anxious to help."

Novelty mobile phone ringtones are surely one of Satan's most inspired creations. Not only are you annoyed by braying idiots shouting into their handsets in crowded pubs, bars and trains, but you end up humming badly rendered theme tunes for the rest of the day to boot ( The

Great Escape being a particular case in point). However, every so often you come across a particular gem. Step forward Jimmy Hill, road transport official with the Transport & General Workers Union, who's high-powered union phone calls are heralded by the Match of the Day theme. Rumours that officials in the Traffic Area Network installing the much maligned TAN21 computer system have adopted the theme from Mission Impossible are proving hard to pin down...

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