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BY THE HAWK
• Three National Express coaches — services 750, 751 and 752 — leave London every morning at 9.00am sharp. The first two go up to Edinburgh (one, up the west route includes Oxford, Stratford, the Lake District and Carlisle, the other goes via Cambridge, Grantham and York) while the 752 takes you to Lincoln by a less than obvious route through Windsor, Winchester, Salisbury, Bath, Cheltenham, Stratford and Warwick.
So what's so special about these? Well for one thing it's going to cost you 21,786 before you get on board any of these services. Pricey it may be — but what you get is what you paid for. The price includes unlimited travel on the services (National Express Tourist Trail) and 28 nights accommodation in three-star hotels. The very upmarket service includes stewards and stewardesses who can book passengers into any hotel in any town whenever they want by use of on-board telephones.
National Express is very pleased by the response (over 5,000 bookings in the first month). So it should be. After all, it takes more than imagination to produce a genuine, luxury holiday package based "on the buses".
• Amid all the scathing publicity wheelclamps have been receiving lately it is very brave of the Department of Transport and the Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley in particular to come out with the following: "Wheelclamps are good news for law abiding drivers".