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Media watch
Page 16
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IN THE NEWS
Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the wild and whacky world of transport this week...
Forgel shelling Dui on Red Bull, or growing your hair so it can be trapped in a vehicle's sun roof, or even slapping your face indiscriminately. A 'music psychologist' has discovered crooning at the wheel staves off tiredness.
Dr Nicola Dibden, who adddle die road conducted the research on behalf of Privilege Insurance, was quoted in The Times, no less, as follows: "Singing while driving stimulates not only the mind but the body, which produces heightened alertness and reduced fatigue." However, the good doctor adds: "Music that is overly complex with little repetition or with highly emotive vocals can divert motorists' attention, lead to driver aggression and reckless behaviour." Good news for Status Quo fans then, who can drive safe in the knowledge they are no threat to anyone, other than themselves.
In a week when two CM staffers fell prey to the scourge that is the wheel clamper, good news comes from The Independent. Islington Council has bowed to public demand and will no longer sanction wheel clamping. Camden Council, which contracts out the second largest clamping and removals service in the UK, is now considering following suit. Islington Council's leader Steve Richards admitted to the national: "Today we are saying, you were right and we were wrong.
Someone who may not quite be so happy is the oddjob man (by day) who dons a superhero's outfit (again, presumably, by day) and becomes Angle-Grinder Man in times of public anger at the scurrilous practice.
Angle-Grinder Man's powers extend to cutting clamps from vehicles on the streets of London. The streets are safer with him around, but now in Islington he will have to find some other super power to help its citizens rescuing them from their bourgeois pretensions, perhaps?