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Trinity Mirror Regionals Driving Force columnist STEVE ORME gives his take on everything from the car with the biggest cup holders (Ford Edge, 20oz) to congestion charges and how your money is spent getting toads safely across the road. It's motoring but not as you know it ...

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May 2008 Archives

'Perverse' councils attacked over fines

Posted by Steve Orme on May 30, 2008 10:00 AM

Just a quick one.
So some jumped up little desk botherer at Haringey Council wonders if it is best use of public money to return fines wrongly collected from motorists.

It's government Jim but not as we know it - PM finds fuel tax complaints 'irritating'

Posted by Steve Orme on May 29, 2008 10:34 AM

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He's irritated
Supplementary to the captain’s blog; stardate 2008, entering the region of the Brown star....

Police to send sexy drink-drive message by bluetooth

Posted by Steve Orme on May 29, 2008 9:22 AM

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Drinking too much can make women with more than one set of facial features look attractive

Funny how when you start a thread all sorts of complementary material starts to appear out of the blue. Or in this case the Bluetooth.

Love me, love my car - men who married their motors

Posted by Steve Orme on May 28, 2008 10:21 AM

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That's just plain wrong

Look, I have no intention of turning this blog into a guide to what’s on TV, perhaps some passing reference to Britain’s Got Saddos and the lack of talent in your average Piers Morgan, but not a full on preview of the evening’s listings.

Cheeky monkey Impreza STi road test

Posted by Steve Orme on May 27, 2008 9:31 AM

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IN the film Below the Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston muses over how a society could be dominated by creatures as primitive and uncouth as monkey-kind.
Obviously there’s all that jumping about and screeching. And holding the tea cup in an impolite manner. There is certainly no place in parliamentary debate for the throwing of rotten fruit or picking the fleas out of the coat of the Honourable Member for Chester Zoo.

Public transport? It's bad for your health

Posted by Steve Orme on May 24, 2008 10:59 AM

Why cars should be available on the NHS (part 235).

Like a bull in a car showroom - Ford Kuga meets its match in Spain

Posted by Steve Orme on May 22, 2008 10:56 AM

Not the best couple of weeks for Scotland and its braves.
Whining Rangers fans who blamed the city of Manchester for failing to run out enough red carpet for their drunken one-nighter are not flavour of the month. Well except it seems with one police dog.

Climate change codswallop

Posted by Steve Orme on May 21, 2008 11:02 AM


You really would struggle to guess where the next dose of climate codswallop is coming from.
‘Experts’, always ‘experts’, say hay fever has come early this year because of climate change

Imreza WRX STi takes the bird

Posted by Steve Orme on May 20, 2008 11:39 AM

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A cautionary take from the countryside.
Last week I was driving an Impreza STi, in white with suede interior. Very nice. Very exciting. Very easy to attract the attention of the rozzers.

Ferrari Spyder sold for record price - to Chris Evans

Posted by Steve Orme on May 19, 2008 4:12 PM

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The 1961 Ferrari California Spyder which once belonged to actor James Coburn has been sold for Euro 7,040,00 million, which is an all-time record for this model.

Road test- Kia Cee'd 2.0-litre diesel

Posted by Steve Orme on May 19, 2008 9:53 AM

In the visionary mind of the late Arthur C Clarke mankind, should by now be reaching for the outer solar system.
Instead Star Trek- the Next Generation is stuck on Facebook talking to Darren with the spots or surfing YouTube for footage of people riding mountain bikes off the top of old age pensioners.

Scrap metal thefts reach the outer limits of UFO sightings

Posted by Steve Orme on May 14, 2008 10:01 AM

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Look out for inter stellar scrap metal raiders

Today the National Archives Office opens its files on reported UFO sightings from the ‘80s. Before you rush off to have a wee glimpsey, they were all Adam Ant’s makeup bag and new romantic hair cuts.

Strap down the shrimp and throw a tinnie on the barbie-

Posted by Steve Orme on May 13, 2008 1:11 PM

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This week one of this realm’s noble lords succeeded in his amendment to a bill making ‘gay hate’ a crime.