Quote of the Week
'I met him [Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, engineering director at BMW] some months later at the launch of the new 3-series in Spain, and frankly we got along rather badly. It seems he still hasn't forgiven me for saying in this column that he looks 'a bit like Hitler', and he was very peeved when I plonked myself down next to him at dinner in a seat reserved for his girlfriend. Still, we had a full and frank exchange of views, which ended with him banging the table and shouting something about Germany being made to pay for 100 years for what it did in the war.' Jeremy Clarkson, Sunday Times

Devon vacancy
How worried is Plymouth about the traffic chaos the eclipse is going to cause? Very worried. So worried, in fact, that they've advertised for an eclipse transport chief to deal with the extra 36,500 cars expected to turn up. Anyone with eclipse traffic congestion experience contact Plymouth city council, but the prospects of the three-month contract being extended beyond the event look bleak.

And finally...
Parcel shelves: what's that all about then? Have you ever seen a parcel on one? And glove compartments...