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Default OT the headline writers simply gert worse every year

On 06/03/2013 18:27, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 05/03/2013 12:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

A motorist with a fear of *bridges* called police in a panic while
travelling along one of the countrys busiest motorways after realising
he was about to travel *under* the River Thames, it emerged today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-Crossing.html



He was probably in shock at the thought of £2 to cross the bloody river.
Thieving Barstewards!


Just an aside. A couple of years ago, we holidayed in France, every toll
was payable by cash or card. On returning to the UK we used the Dartford
crossing and discovered that it was payable only by cash, we had no
sterling and there was nowhere to easily escape when we couldn't use a card.

SteveW