Sir Peter Was In Fine Fettle

IT WAS unfortunate that the National Freight Consortium should be holding a board meeting on the day when its chairman and chief executive, Sir Peter Thompson, had a date with......

Things Ain't What They Used To Be

LIFE ON THE buses has changed. Just because an Irish Sunday newspaper published a saucy story about alleged goings-on between conductresses and men in CIE, the Irish republican......

Filters That Are Not What They Seem

"SPURIOUSER and spuriouser," Pretty Polly might have said if Lewis Carroll had written Perkins in Plunder/and, a moral tale in which nothing was what it seemed to be. It would......

Selling Petrol By The Glass

TO SATISFY the acquisitive instincts of those who hanker after something for nothing, millions of French mixer glasses are being used as bait at some 2,500 Esso service stations......