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All Keeps Smiling After All These Years
river Alf Scott of Sutton-in-Ashfield is retiring from Thompson Jewitt after 29 years behind the wheel, and as these pictures show he is leaving as he began — with a big smile......
A Brie Too Far
ri cy roads may soon become a haven for picnicking mice attracted by the lure of cheese waste, which the Danish have discovered to be more effective than salt. The sultry brine......
Snoopy Takes A Pop At Renault
A dogfight is imminent between the Red Baron Trucking Company of Wraysbury, Middlesex and truck manufacturer Renault over the rase of an exploding clutch. Red Baron boss Kelvin......
A Thumb Deal Nabs A Hitch In Time
elievers in chance will be heartened by the story of a truck driver who recognised a hitch hiker on the M5 as the man who stole £200 from his cab a year earlier. The trucker had......
Crashed Out And Plastered
hen a British Rail lorry drove into the side of the Mayfield Hotel at Seamer, near Scarborough, the locals did the only decent thing: they carried on drinking. The lorry became......
Tanks For The Memories
ii he phrase "the Russians are coming" does not inspire the same chill it did during cold-war days, but Midlanders must still have been surprised to see a Soviet 155 tank......