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Bird's Eye View
• Recent comments in our letters page have cast doubt on the desirabiity of a Lada. However, in Russia, demand for the vehicles is so great there is a five-year waiting list.......
• Imagine The Scene. You Are Stuck In Your Saab
in a 6Icnn traffic jam on the M5 between Cheltenham and Tewkesbury. Suddenly, your car phone rings and you are told that a relative is dangerously ill in hospital. In front is a......
• Winner Of This Week's "my-eyes-glazed-over" (mego)...
Castrol press release verbosely promoting a free half-litre of jollop to punters buying five litres of the stuff. It is, of course, a "significant. . . mother and daugh • ter"......
• How The Mighty Have Fallen. Paul Channon, Erstwhile...
Secretary, was heard calling into BBC Radio Essex's morning show last week to compete in the station's mystery voice competition. The competition had stumped other listeners for......
• Residents In The Welsh Market Town Of Machynlleth Are...
On the trailer is a 15m glass fibre shark, mouth gaping menacingly. The shark has been there for three weeks, ever since its transporter broke down. Local police have no idea......