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

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

barbie


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

His argument was that the bill as it stood would mean any freely spoken opinion about homosexuals could become a criminal offence. He has a point.
Safer to stick with Australians.
What's up now?
No, really.
A driver in Alice Springs has been fined for strapping down his beer rather than his young child.
Police said they were "shocked and appalled" when they pulled over the car and found a 30-can pack of beer was strapped down between two adults in the back, with the five-year-old child unrestrained on the floor.
You see that’s how it starts. Just when you think a stereotype has been laid to rest...

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