Month: June 2011

Readers’ Letters

We would have added this sub-section to the site earlier, but no-one bothered writing to us until now.  Each letter will be followed by a response from our editor, who will carefully read every syllable before drafting a measured response. Dear Mrs. Peabody, Thank you for taking the time to write

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Good News for Bus Enthusiasts!

Members of the British Trolleybus Societywill be positively buzzing with excitement this week as an old Reading trolleybus will be on display at Reading Transport’s fourth annual open day on Sunday the 3rd of July this year. According to local news the bus will be alongside the most recent model to mark the

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No News is Good News

Well today is certainly a quiet day for news in Newcastle.  One of our eager beaver interns (not an actual beaver you understand, and as we don’t pay them they tend not to be that eager either so perhaps we could more accurately say one of our interns) turned up a

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Graham’s Spot the Ball

Well congratulations to last week’s winner, Sarah Darling from London, who found the correct answer of 60 for Graham’s Brain Teaser.   As promised we have published the picture she submitted to us.  We presume that this is not a recent one, but we weren’t specific so that’s OK. We can only

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Clamper Nicked for Obstructing the Queen

Don’t you just hate it when you meet a friend for lunch in a new place without realising you parked in a clamp zone?  Well this is just what happened to the Queen last week in Portsmouth. Two unmarked police cars were clamped during Her Majesty’s unexpected visit to Portsmouth.  According

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