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please contact Backfire, Commercial Motor, Rm H203, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 SAS. or fax 020 8852 8969. Alternatively you can e-mail brian.weatheriey a rbi.co.uk.

The inhabitants of Swindon are seeing treble after someone painted three yellow lines for 40 yards along a road in a residential area of the town. Police are also baffled, saying this Impressive design Is not listed in the Highway Code. Now residents are not sure if they can

legally park outside their homes and shops. This adds insult to Injury to the people of the Wiltshire town, who already have to endure 45 sets of roadworks, the notorious 'magic roundabout' and their (sort of) football team.

Silence is golden. And safer too, according to research carried out on drivers recently. Tests suggested that listening to music while driving

dulled the reaction speeds and attention of 28 students taking part in the driving simulator test.

Subjects exposed to club-style, 120

beats-perminute, mindnumbing. 'choons' were more than twice as likely to have collisions than those listening to something more refined. Dr Warren Brodsky, a research fellow in Music Science at Ben Gurion University in Israel, appeared to have been groovin' 'n' cruisin' in the name of science "I could hardly control myself with some of the pieces. It war difficult taking my foot off the gas pedal," he exclaimed after his Jekyll and Hyde transform tion. "I'm now more careful in my choice of music."

Pickle-loving thieves made off with more than £110 worth of pickled onions, jam ar fruit tilling from a curtainsidel parked In Davies Road, Eveshal last weekend. CMwould never make peurile jokes about serious crime so we will NOT be telling you that the cops are in "pickle; it's a terrible 'traffic jam'': or that the thieves are "currantly" enjoying the 'fruit of their labour".

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