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Science is a wonderful thing. It enables anyone who thinks bridges are cissy to drop a velicle with unerring accuracy in the middle of a river.
Aided originally by no less a person than Dr Magnus Pyke, John England, a 28-year-old Taunton lorry driver, has splashed down four times in the River Avon, first in a mini-bus, then in a 40-seat coach and twice in a double-deck bus.
Although his attempts to jump the 90ft river have all enced damply, his courage deserves to be recorded in the library of folk music I suggest as Possible songs "I Did It My Way" or "'The Impossible Dream" or "There'll Always be an :ngland," though on John's pre-ient form that assertion is open to doubt.
If he has done nothing else, he has demonstrated the truth of the proverb You can take a bus to water and the cussed thing will sink.