FROM THE DAILY MAIL: When Daniel Grey was told it would cost £24,000 to insure his 12-year-old Volvo, he assumed it was the highest quote in the country.
But stunned teenager Jake Redshaw’s dream of driving has now also stalled, after he was quoted more than £32,000 to cover his second-hand hatchback. Both quotes came from [...]
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FROM THE TELEGRAPH: But far from revving the series up for Chinese consumption, the brakes will be on over fears that the blend of outrageous stunts and irreverent humour which characterises the British programme will be too controversial to pass China’s notoriously staid censors. Concern over the show’s content means it will be broadcast after midnight [...]
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FROM REUTERS: Two thieves drove away in a brand new $94,000 BMW 750i xDrive Sedan on Wednesday night that was left idling outside the Westin Book Cadillac, one of Detroit’s major hotels. The car was one of more than a dozen BMW sedans used to ferry executives and guests around town during the show. On Thursday morning, [...]
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FROM DAILYMAIL: A doctor threatened to kill a speed camera operator if he ever became his patient, a misconduct hearing was told yesterday. David Heal leapt from his Porsche to swear at the operator and attempted to knock his hand to stop him photographing the car, the General Medical Council heard. He allegedly added: ‘If you ever [...]
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FROM THE TELEGRAPH: Clarkson’s gaffe is the latest in a series of off-colour jokes that have landed him in trouble. He once referred to Gordon Brown as a “one-eyed Scottish idiot”, and said that TV executives are fixated with putting “black Muslim lesbians” on TV to balance out all the white, heterosexual males. He also [...]
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FROM THE AP: Chrysler says it has suspended some plant workers caught by a Detroit television station drinking alcohol and smoking what appeared to be marijuana during breaks. Chrysler manufacturing chief Scott Garberding told WJBK-TV in a report that aired Wednesday night that the automaker has identified some of the workers. WJBK said it received a tip [...]
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FROM THE TELEGRAPH: A car thief was forced to abandon a stolen Audi just a few miles from scene of crime after filling it with petrol instead of diesel. Daniel Boxall had stolen the £13,000 Audi A4 after pickpocketing owner Caroline Lyons at a leisure centre in Ramsgate, Kent, on June 12 this year. After taking her [...]
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FROM THE DAILY MAIL: The racing driver who played The Stig on Top Gear today hit out at his former bosses after revealing Jeremy Clarkson once told him he drove ‘like a homosexual’ Ben Collins, 35, said the backlash against his lifting the lid on his seven years as the anonymous road ace on the hit [...]
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FROM USA TODAY: GM’s new CEO, Dan Akerson, addressed the automaker’s workers Wednesday for the first time since he stepped into the corner office Sept. 1, replacing Ed Whitacre. As part of his talk, Akerson said GM should build Cadillacs as good as BMWs, according to an Associated Press report that GM won’t quite confirm. How [...]
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FROM THE AP: A Florida appellate court has ruled against a death row inmate who was convicted of killing a couple and then petitioned to keep a vintage pickup that belonged to one of the victims. The ruling may end a legal battle that has dragged on seven years after the slayings of Richard and Karla [...] |
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