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IN THE NEWS
Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.
If you're talking breaks for freedom, this is up there with Cooler King Steve McQueen's effort in The Great Escape. The cow, well call him, ahem, the Moo-ler King, leapt out of a moving Scania transporter onto the M60 and lolloped away across a golf course, heading for pastures new. Unfortunately the police didn't take too kindly to this bovine break for the border and oromptly shot the Moo-ler King dead. So perhaps it was more like the conclusion of Butch Cassidy and the Sun dance Kid, without Burt Bacharach's crooning.
The BBC news website reports Robin Williams admitted two charges under animal welfare legislation and was fined 21,000 after the animal escaped from his truck in Greater Manchester last July. He also admitted failing to transport the cow in an "escape-proof vehicle" on the journey from Anglesey to York. Williams said the incident left him traumatised and was a "million-to-one" — uncannily similar to the odds of survival given to the PoWs breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
More proud, English defiance; this time from churchgoer Liz Nelson who refused to let a traffic warden follow his orders