Time, Gentlemen, Please, After Dinner

"PERHAPS after-dinner speakers should be compulsorily fitted with tachographs," said Nicholas Ridley, Secretary of State for Transport, at the recent Road Haulage Association's......

Think Of A Number And That's The Tax

HOW can one price something that cannot be quantified? Nicholas Ridley did not provide the formula but his Treasury background shone through when he tried to justify the £160m a......

Bigger Catch In The Parcels Jungle

ALTHOUGH TO Sir Peter Thompson, head of the National Freight Consortium, the parcels business is a jungle, Lex Wilkinson last year managed to hack through the undergrowth to......

The Failed Student Who Knew Better

A LAW student who had failed his final examinations was too clever for the South Wales police. They had prosecuted him for allegedly driving through a Pontypridd street that was......

Goodyear To Get All Lit Up

CONNECT a computer to 7,560 small plastic lamps and 80 miles of wire and what do you get? Answer: multi-coloured messages and animations more than 105ft long and 25ft high......

Get Off The Train: It Isn't There

A BIG new computer centre opened by the West Midland Passenger Transport Executive at Blake Street, between Birmingham and Lichfield, has embarrassed British Rail. Extra trains......