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Top Gear producers angrily deny any resemblance to Last of the Summer Wine

‘Our programme features three old gits at odds with the modern world who retreat into a second childhood. How on earth is that similar to Last of the Summer Wine?’

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Posted: Apr 8th, 2011
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Drivers ‘ill-prepared’ for clement weather

drivers often stuck for hours in unbearable sweatersThe mild weather hitting large parts Great Britain over the last couple of months has brought the country to a standstill. Britain’s road network has once again ground to a halt, with weather-stricken motorists caught off guard by the sudden arrival of flurries of sunshine.

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Posted: Mar 23rd, 2011
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Government unveils ‘unnecessary road sign ahead’ road sign

Motorists will no longer have to worry about whether to take notice of road signs, after the Government unveils plans to introduce ‘unnecessary road sign’ signs before pointless, irritating signs like ‘Flood’, ‘No giant windmills here’, ‘Thank you for driving carefully through our Village’ and ‘Slow down – children’.

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Posted: Mar 9th, 2011
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First edition of Fortyman comic fetches record £1m

hop in luvThe cover of the rare 1931 first edition, showing the original price of sixpence, features the ‘Man of Tarmacadam’ driving to another improbable rescue down the Empire’s finest trunk roads.

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Posted: Feb 4th, 2011
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Latest road signs to display driver’s stupidity as well as speed

system views some manoeuvres as 'neanderthal'Road safety campaigners are celebrating today after the first roadside display sign to show the intelligence of drivers came into operation at a notorious stupidity black-spot on the A40.

Hopes are high for the success of the new innovation, which builds on previous systems of roadside traffic monitoring that use LED displays to flash up the speed of each car as it passes through dangerous stretches of road. The new device also takes an estimate of the driver’s IQ, based on factors such as the presence of car bumper stickers of any description, whether the stereo system’s bass speaker is of greater value than the car itself, and if the driver is tailgating while simultaneously texting and eating an Egg McMuffin.

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Posted: Aug 23rd, 2010
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