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please contact Backfire, Commercial Motor, Am 11203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, or fax 8652 8969. Alternatively you can e-mail brian.weatherieyrtico.uk.

Drivers on the M4 in South Wales are facing up to a new road hazard—suicidal seabirds. The Shags ( stop that tittering at the back please)— about the size of a pheasant— are swooping in front of traffic before landing on nearby water. We can only assume its an elaborate game of (wait for it) chicken on the part of the monikerly challenged waterfowl.

Some vehicle thefts are destined to be less successful than ethers, and 20-year-old Shane Hamer's exploits never stood a chance. The McCormick International tractor he had "boprowed' was spotted by police at 02:20hrs, being driven past a Weishpool nightclub (yes, apparently there is one) the only lights provided by his female passenger's torch, straddling the white line with the wheels wobbling. After a brief chase, during which Hamer was seen waving and shouting to onlookers before dumping the tractor In the Spar car park and le leg It, he then refused to take a roadside breath test. Following guilty pleas to a number of offences, Hamer's reward was an eighteen-month driving ban and 80 hours' community service.

Drivers were left frustrated last week when they were unable to travel expresso on a busy motorway in the Midlands after an HGV driver blocked traffic when he spit the beans. Motorists got themselves frothed up when they found themselves running latte after a lorry carrying 10 tonnes of coffee beans flipped over on the M42 between junctions seven and eight— right in the middle of roadworks for the Birmingham Northern Relief Road. Nobody was injured but some bystanders were seen rushing round in circles in a caffeine frenzy.

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People: Shane Hamer
Locations: Surrey

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