03/12/2012

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:00:17. > :00:22.Hello. I'm in Coventry tonight at the home of the world's largest

:00:22. > :00:25.collection of road transport. Where better to look at our love affair

:00:25. > :00:32.with the car and ask, are the wheels coming off this special

:00:32. > :00:37.relationship? Also on the show. It it's good enough for Harry Potter

:00:37. > :00:42.and Wallace and Gromit, it's good enough for us. But what is the

:00:42. > :00:45.enduring attraction of a motorbike and sidecar? We are selling them to

:00:45. > :00:52.a huge range of people, from young families, older guys who just want

:00:52. > :00:57.a sidecar in their lives and now's the time. First, have you ever

:00:57. > :01:00.bought part-worn tyres for your car? With motoring costs continuing

:01:00. > :01:06.to spiral, many of us are looking for cheaper ways to keep our

:01:06. > :01:09.vehicles on the road. But just how safe are these tyres? Up to 4

:01:09. > :01:19.million are sold each year. Giles Latcham's investigation suggests

:01:19. > :01:22.

:01:22. > :01:27.Keeping a car on the road is not cheap, and drivers are always on

:01:27. > :01:37.hunt for a bargain. But at what price? They sold me a tyre that was

:01:37. > :01:39.so risky. I could not be here today if it had gone any worse. There is

:01:39. > :01:47.a significant risk of the tyre collapsing and the consequences of

:01:47. > :01:51.that are the same as the tyre exploding. One van, two days on the

:01:51. > :01:56.road and ten garages. It is not exactly Top Gear. We are on the

:01:56. > :02:01.trail of part-worn tyres. Second hand wheels which break the rules

:02:01. > :02:03.can be dangerous, and they are definitely illegal. You would not

:02:03. > :02:12.expect high-street garages to be selling them to unsuspecting

:02:12. > :02:16.drivers. But we are about to find out, with help from this man. This

:02:16. > :02:20.is Damian, an independent tyre safety expert. Today he is working

:02:20. > :02:26.for us. He is going to pose as a typical customer looking to buy

:02:26. > :02:29.part-worn tyres. What should we be looking out for?

:02:29. > :02:33.The obvious stuff is things like tread depth. It's important to see

:02:33. > :02:35.tread over the whole tyre, across the whole width and round the whole

:02:35. > :02:41.circumference. There's also a requirement for part-worn tyres to

:02:41. > :02:47.be stamped part-worn, so that you know what you're getting. And no

:02:47. > :02:50.cuts or rips, either inside or outside. It's the inside ones are

:02:50. > :02:58.that concern me, because that's stuff that you can't see, and you

:02:58. > :03:01.have to trust the person selling it to you to have made that inspection.

:03:01. > :03:04.We're visiting ten garages across the West Midlands to find out if

:03:04. > :03:10.they are selling illegal part-worn tyres.

:03:10. > :03:20.Where are we off to first? A garage in Newport in Shropshire. OK. Let's

:03:20. > :03:24.

:03:24. > :03:28.Second-hand tyres which are not up to the job can be dangerous. Poor

:03:28. > :03:32.quality ones played a major part in this accident. The driver, a young

:03:33. > :03:36.father, was left paralysed. Tyres are more important than people

:03:36. > :03:42.realise, I think. I don't like the idea that people are taken

:03:42. > :03:50.advantage of by people they trust. Last year there were 709 tyre-

:03:50. > :03:53.related accidents in the UK - 127 here in the West Midlands. It's an

:03:53. > :03:56.issue Birmingham Trading Standards is well aware of. Its last

:03:56. > :04:02.investigation was over two years ago, and found that nine out of the

:04:02. > :04:10.ten second-hand tyres they bought were illegal. But has anything

:04:10. > :04:15.changed? We're about to find out. We've reached our first

:04:15. > :04:18.investigation, are you ready? ready. Let's see what we can get.

:04:18. > :04:22.The plan is to buy one part-worn tyre at each of the garages we

:04:22. > :04:31.visit. Then we'll test them to see if they meet the basic legal

:04:31. > :04:36.So, considered opinion? It's OK - it's a budget tyre, it's got plenty

:04:36. > :04:41.of tread, it's got no damage. It's got no part-worn stamp, of course,

:04:41. > :04:51.which it should have according to the law. If it's got no stamp?

:04:51. > :04:55.

:04:55. > :04:59.So this is our last stop - he's got �50 in his pocket, let's see what

:05:00. > :05:02.he comes back with. Time to see if our cash has been

:05:02. > :05:12.well spent. This impressive building is the Motoring Test

:05:12. > :05:16.Centre in Warwickshire - MIRA. Our tyre expert's about to put his

:05:16. > :05:20.skills to good use. Time to find out if our tyres are fit for the

:05:20. > :05:25.road, or the dump. Let's see what we've got, here's our first

:05:26. > :05:29.contestant. This one's been around for quite a while, if you look

:05:29. > :05:31.really closely. You can see the texture of the rubber and the

:05:32. > :05:37.grooves, it's really getting quite old and tired, it's starting to

:05:37. > :05:40.show cracks. You've just bought this - are you happy to fit it to a

:05:40. > :05:48.car you're now driving? absolutely not. There's a

:05:48. > :05:53.significant risk of the tyre collapsing. The consequences of

:05:53. > :05:59.that other same as the tyre exploding.

:05:59. > :06:05.But us see how the next one compares. This is the one that

:06:05. > :06:11.bothers me the most. There are lot of things are not to like. It is a

:06:11. > :06:17.winter attire. You should not be buying one of these and putting it

:06:17. > :06:21.on one corner of the car. If you put it on the rear of the core,

:06:21. > :06:27.then at motorway speeds you significantly increase the rate --

:06:27. > :06:34.risk of the car spinning. This is one of the better it tyres we have

:06:34. > :06:42.seen. Lots of tread detail, it has not been driven it that much. It is

:06:42. > :06:49.lacking the part-worn stamp. Out of the ten garages we visited, seven

:06:50. > :06:54.had to part-worn tyres on sale. Two of them of potentially dangerous

:06:54. > :07:00.according to a our expert. It is no surprise to some tyre safety

:07:00. > :07:06.campaigners. We know there is a trend in the market place where

:07:06. > :07:12.people are buying used or part-worn tyres. Probably for the purpose of

:07:12. > :07:18.saving money. Date or a safety- critical items. We rely on them

:07:18. > :07:24.every single time the wheels turn in the car. Just exactly what is

:07:24. > :07:28.wrong with that tier, how are you going to handle that, will it

:07:28. > :07:38.happen at high speed, can you as a motorist handle that all will you

:07:38. > :07:38.

:07:38. > :07:42.take that risk? A pretty damning verdict from the experts. But it

:07:42. > :07:49.seems that part-worn tyres are still a popular choice for cash-

:07:49. > :07:54.strapped motorists. An estimated 4 million bus sold each year. Sold to

:07:55. > :08:01.drivers like muscle. His newly bought part-worn tyre collapsed

:08:01. > :08:05.while he was travelling at 70 mph on the motorway. To actually feel

:08:05. > :08:15.your car pulling and have took Cubitt in a straight line, had I

:08:15. > :08:23.not pulled of but when it started, the tyre could well have popped.

:08:23. > :08:27.You are talking about it multi car pile-up. So what is being done? The

:08:27. > :08:33.buck stops with trading standards, which has the power to bring

:08:33. > :08:38.prosecutions. They are looking at our evidence. The people who are

:08:38. > :08:41.willing to sell second-hand tyres like that are just completely

:08:41. > :08:48.irresponsible and obviously did not think of the consequences.

:08:48. > :08:52.Hopefully they and other people will now think. You have seen the

:08:52. > :08:56.evidence. While there is nothing wrong with good quality part-worn

:08:56. > :09:06.tyres, you might want to double check those wheels you thought were

:09:06. > :09:07.

:09:07. > :09:12.a bargain, before you hand over You can talk to us right now on

:09:12. > :09:19.Twitter. If there is a story from here in the West Midlands that you

:09:19. > :09:27.think we should be covering, please drop me an e-mail.

:09:27. > :09:37.Still to come, reviving a golden era with that the world champion

:09:37. > :09:37.

:09:37. > :09:44.side kart racer. I was too busy to be frightened. But your head is

:09:44. > :09:52.almost on the tarmac! But you are watching that what is happening, so

:09:52. > :09:58.you are too occupied to be frightened. I hope you drive home

:09:58. > :10:04.tonight was not too stressful. What would it take to drive you out of

:10:04. > :10:08.your car for your daily commute. We have had access to a survey which

:10:08. > :10:15.suggests that the mood of motorists is changing. Richard Westcott

:10:15. > :10:25.reports. Building roads is controversial.

:10:25. > :10:27.

:10:27. > :10:31.But not building them can be controversial as well. So how do

:10:31. > :10:34.planners get it right? How do they decide where to spend our taxes -

:10:34. > :10:37.on road or rail? The only way to ever be sure is to

:10:37. > :10:40.beam ourselves into the future. And we all know how easy that is.

:10:40. > :10:49.When these fans were watching their favourite series back in the '60s

:10:49. > :10:57.we thought we knew how we would be travelling by 2012. There was talk

:10:57. > :11:01.of having a personal car that flu. But sci-fi got it wrong, most of us

:11:01. > :11:04.get around now the same way we did 50 years ago - having your own jet

:11:04. > :11:07.pack remains a distant dream. And ever since I can remember,

:11:07. > :11:10.we've assumed that traffic's just going to get worse and worse.

:11:10. > :11:18.After all, we all love our cars, don't we?

:11:18. > :11:21.Well, maybe not. Whisper it, but there is a rumour going around

:11:21. > :11:28.transport circles that we are falling out of love with our four

:11:28. > :11:32.wheels. In fact, they've even given it a name - Peak Car.

:11:32. > :11:36.So what is Peak Car? Well, just look at UK traffic growth in the

:11:36. > :11:38.'60s and '70s when we couldn't get enough cars, but by the '90s the

:11:39. > :11:48.trend was already slowing, and by about 2002 average mileage per

:11:49. > :11:55.

:11:55. > :12:00.person stalled. Is that love-affair with the car's cooling down? What

:12:00. > :12:05.seems to be happening in the advanced countries including

:12:05. > :12:09.America is that traffic growth due to, used simply is not going ahead

:12:09. > :12:12.at the same rates it used to have. Well, now Inside Out has been given

:12:12. > :12:15.the first piece of in-depth research into Peak Car in the UK

:12:15. > :12:17.and this report is full of surprises. It shows that while some

:12:17. > :12:22.of us are driving more than ever, others are dramatically changing

:12:22. > :12:26.the way we travel. Take young men for example.

:12:26. > :12:35.Now when I was young, I couldn't wait to get my hands on my dad's

:12:35. > :12:43.mark 4 Cortina with reversing lights. Passing your test was seen

:12:43. > :12:46.as a rite of passage, but apparently that is changing.

:12:46. > :12:51.Market trader Lee Vernon is 19, but he won't be adding to the traffic

:12:51. > :12:58.around Mansfield Nottinghamshire any time soon. He is selling up

:12:58. > :13:01.because he has just been quoted �2,800 to insure his three-wheeler.

:13:01. > :13:04.I really love it. It's a great looking car, it's a really classic

:13:05. > :13:11.car, they're really rare. But the insurance is too much, and I can't

:13:11. > :13:17.afford it. The research shows Lee is not alone.

:13:17. > :13:20.Young men are driving 2,000 miles a year less than they were in 1995.

:13:20. > :13:25.Women though, young and old, are actually driving more than they

:13:25. > :13:29.used to. So what is going on? I think what changed, attitude wise,

:13:29. > :13:32.is everybody just kind of gave up and got that used to using Facebook

:13:32. > :13:42.and their phones and sitting around, or using public transport that I

:13:42. > :13:47.

:13:47. > :13:53.don't think anyone even cares about cars any more. Young men are not

:13:53. > :13:58.driving so much. There are a lot of possible explanations, such as the

:13:58. > :14:02.rise of insurance costs. But if that trend continues, we will see a

:14:02. > :14:06.lot less, traffic and a lot less, ownership as well.

:14:06. > :14:09.So what else has the report found? Well, this is the rainy 7.16am from

:14:09. > :14:17.Warwick Parkway to Marylebone. Over the last 2 years the numbers using

:14:17. > :14:20.this line have gone up by a staggering 40%.

:14:20. > :14:23.And according to the report that is in line with a national trend.

:14:23. > :14:27.Since the mid-'90s the distance the average person travels by rail has

:14:27. > :14:37.soared by more than 60%, the last time the trains were this busy was

:14:37. > :14:40.The key growth we have seen is in two areas. One is business travel

:14:40. > :14:43.in the morning where you can do some work and the other is in

:14:43. > :14:46.leisure travel, especially at weekends. Train travel has become

:14:46. > :14:50.much cheaper, at the same time as fuel prices increasing. It costs

:14:50. > :14:54.more to travel by car. So that whole value equation is suddenly

:14:54. > :14:58.tilted in favour of rail. And of course all those gadgets

:14:58. > :15:04.mean you can now work or play on the move. You can even book your

:15:04. > :15:08.next train ticket if you can get a signal! While business travel by

:15:08. > :15:15.rail is up, company car mileage is down - by 40% between 1995 and 2007

:15:15. > :15:20.- so that is before any recession. Scrapping tax breaks made the

:15:21. > :15:25.difference and it has had a big impact on traffic in London.

:15:25. > :15:28.Despite more people moving to the capital, there are fewer cars. But

:15:28. > :15:33.the report found people in the countryside seem to be driving as

:15:33. > :15:39.much if not more than ever. Of course in big cities, you do have a

:15:39. > :15:42.lot of options for getting around. Fairfax Hall runs a London company

:15:42. > :15:46.making specialist gin and vodka and thinks he has distilled the perfect

:15:46. > :15:50.formula for company travel. Whenever they need a car or van,

:15:50. > :15:58.they book it from a car club and pick it up from a designated

:15:58. > :16:01.parking space 15 minutes later. is a small start-up business, and

:16:01. > :16:09.we don't have a lot of money, so we invested everything we head into

:16:09. > :16:13.the distillery itself. Actually, investing loads of money into a van

:16:13. > :16:17.didn't seem like a good use of capital. So it is relatively low

:16:17. > :16:26.cost. Then the other benefit is flexibility, you can jump into what

:16:26. > :16:29.is essentially a brand new vehicle and drive it at 15 minutes' notice.

:16:29. > :16:33.So here's a question - what does all this research mean for the

:16:33. > :16:38.future of the UK car industry? After all, we have had a bit of a

:16:38. > :16:44.boom recently. The UK is actually on course to produce more cars than

:16:44. > :16:49.at any time since 1972. But that is not because we are all buying

:16:49. > :16:52.ourselves a new motor. 80% are being exported - these Minis are

:16:52. > :16:55.heading to Asia and South America. Last month in London at the RAC's

:16:55. > :17:05.Future Car Challenge, another famous sci-fi face was in no doubt

:17:05. > :17:05.

:17:05. > :17:10.what that future holds. I think what is happening now is a huge

:17:10. > :17:15.challenge to the car industry. I don't see that the car has come to

:17:15. > :17:18.an end, I think they are too useful. But we need to rethink the model of

:17:18. > :17:22.how we use cars, car-sharing, all those sort of things, and I think

:17:22. > :17:26.electric cars are part of that. An electric car in a city that you

:17:26. > :17:30.don't own makes more sense, you can park it where it's always charged

:17:31. > :17:33.and ready to use. It is not just the car industry that will be

:17:33. > :17:36.looking at this research. The Department for Transport is

:17:36. > :17:40.planning a major road building programme based on their model that

:17:40. > :17:46.traffic will go up by 44% increase over the next two decades or so.

:17:46. > :17:51.But what if they have got it wrong? After all, since 1989, successive

:17:51. > :17:59.governments have overestimated traffic growth. This is the range

:17:59. > :18:02.of predictions. The red line is what's actually happened. There is

:18:02. > :18:05.always a risk forecasting that it will be wrong, but the key thing

:18:05. > :18:09.the Department for Transport model does is it takes a wide and rich

:18:09. > :18:13.set of data, it ensures that data is rigorously analysed. There are a

:18:13. > :18:17.lot of useful things in this report for us to go away and look at but

:18:17. > :18:20.I'm not convinced it shows we have reached peak car. The government

:18:20. > :18:25.points out the UK population is predicted to grow by another 10

:18:25. > :18:32.million in the next 25 years. And the RAC Foundation, who helped fund

:18:32. > :18:36.the report, says that means we are still going to need more roads.

:18:36. > :18:39.This is not the end of the car. The use of the car has been declining,

:18:39. > :18:42.but for 75 per cent of the population, people will need to use

:18:42. > :18:49.cars unless they have railways and buses available and most people

:18:49. > :18:52.will not have those things. Almost half a century ago when Star Trek

:18:52. > :18:58.started, this is what we thought travel in the 23rd century might

:18:58. > :19:03.look like - and it is pure '60s. It all shows how hard it is to predict

:19:03. > :19:07.the future. But the danger is assuming it will look like a bigger

:19:08. > :19:13.version of what we have now. The motor car has been the transport

:19:13. > :19:17.story of the last 50 years. I never thought I would say this, but it

:19:17. > :19:27.just might not be the transport story of the next 50. Yeoman Sam,

:19:27. > :19:28.

:19:28. > :19:38.And if you would like to find out how car traffic levels have changed

:19:38. > :19:41.across the West Midlands, log on to Before the arrival of cheaper

:19:41. > :19:45.family cars in the 1960s, like so many, a familiar sight on our roads

:19:45. > :19:50.was the motorbike and sidecar. In fact one of the earliest sidecar

:19:50. > :19:53.manufacturers was founded in Birmingham in 1912. And they're

:19:53. > :20:03.still going strong thanks in no small part to Harry Potter and

:20:03. > :20:23.

:20:23. > :20:26.You're probably more used to seeing a sidecar on the TV than on the

:20:26. > :20:29.roads these days but sidecars like these have been big business for

:20:29. > :20:36.one Midlands company for the last 100 years and they say demand is

:20:36. > :20:39.increasing. In the mid 1950s there were around 160,000 motorcycle

:20:39. > :20:49.combinations on our roads, and half of them were made by a builder from

:20:49. > :20:52.

:20:52. > :20:55.Birmingham - Thomas Frederick Watson. Watsonian Squire in the

:20:55. > :20:58.Cotswolds began life in 1912, so I've come today to find out how

:20:58. > :21:08.they've survived a whole century and how they plan to survive the

:21:08. > :21:10.

:21:10. > :21:16.Sidecars originated in France in the 1890s and became popular in

:21:16. > :21:18.Britain in the period before the First World War. It was during that

:21:18. > :21:28.time that Brummie Thomas Watson spotted the problem with parking

:21:28. > :21:28.

:21:28. > :21:31.them. They wanted to be able to take them to the alleyway behind

:21:31. > :21:34.the terraced houses, so he developed this side car which

:21:34. > :21:37.folded so that you could wheel it down the alleyway between the

:21:37. > :21:43.terraced houses, which was 3 ft wide, something like that, he

:21:43. > :21:50.developed this sidecar which collapsed. He called it, when he

:21:50. > :21:54.started his business, the patent collapsible sidecar. The sidecar

:21:54. > :22:04.folded a bit like a cardboard box folds, you are able to fold it so

:22:04. > :22:04.

:22:04. > :22:10.it is flat. That is how he dealt with the body. He had a chassis

:22:10. > :22:13.which had hinges on it so it did the same sort of thing. The folding

:22:13. > :22:16.sidecar was the beginning of something big. The company went on

:22:16. > :22:21.to make them for every occasion and they didn't have to fold to be

:22:21. > :22:27.fabulous. From two-seaters to ones for kids - there was even a sidecar

:22:27. > :22:32.ambulance. They made hundreds of models, very proactive, they were.

:22:32. > :22:40.Developing lots and lots of different models. I think very

:22:40. > :22:43.often people had a motorcycle and bought a sidecar as an accessory.

:22:43. > :22:47.Either when the family came along or when they could afford a sidecar,

:22:47. > :22:50.so they could take the family out. So a lot of people would have used

:22:50. > :22:54.the motorcycle for commuting to work and then attached a sidecar

:22:54. > :22:57.when they could afford it or when the need arose so they could go out

:22:57. > :23:04.at weekends with the family. The Watsonian had about half the

:23:04. > :23:09.business. They bought the competition. They were a very

:23:09. > :23:13.dominant force in the sidecar business and we still are.

:23:13. > :23:23.their heyday was short lived - in the 1960s there was a new kid in

:23:23. > :23:27.

:23:27. > :23:30.town and it was about to give the Mass production meant that families

:23:30. > :23:39.started buying small cheap cars and sales for the sidecar dropped

:23:39. > :23:42.dramatically. Watsonian managed to hang in there though. They had to

:23:42. > :23:52.diversify, at one point they even built boat parts, but 100 years on

:23:52. > :23:56.they're still making sidecars. are very busy at the moment, making

:23:56. > :24:00.about 200 a year. A lot of that is export, exporting all over the

:24:00. > :24:03.world, Europe, our biggest customer is in Japan. The home market is

:24:03. > :24:06.doing very well as well, we are selling sidecars to a whole range

:24:06. > :24:13.of young people, young families, old guys, people who have wanted to

:24:13. > :24:21.cycle all their lives. But who exactly is the new Watsonian Squire

:24:22. > :24:25.owner? Well Chad Brown, for one. do like the retro appearance of the

:24:25. > :24:28.Watsonian, they haven't changed in many years, and I find many people,

:24:29. > :24:38.when I go out in public with the bike think it is a lot older than

:24:38. > :24:45.it really is. And I like that about it. It is something about the past.

:24:45. > :24:48.People are very interested and nostalgic about them, really. They

:24:48. > :24:57.often talk to me about their old days and when their grandfather or

:24:57. > :25:00.somebody had a bike and they remember it. They originally cost

:25:00. > :25:08.just 12 guineas, but now it's more like �2,500-6,000 and fans include

:25:08. > :25:12.the Hollywood A-list. Recently I built Ewan McGregor one which is

:25:13. > :25:19.being shipped over to LA. That was a custom one with a leather

:25:19. > :25:25.interior, that was beautiful. Just for his dog, unfortunately. The

:25:25. > :25:30.Harry Potter ones, of course. Built a couple of those. They are nice

:25:30. > :25:34.and they sell to the general public as well. For some, sidecars are

:25:34. > :25:38.just a good way of getting around, but for others it's sport. Racing

:25:38. > :25:41.sidecars reach speeds of well over 100 miles an hour in races and it's

:25:41. > :25:51.down to men like former World Champion Stan Dibben to keep them

:25:51. > :25:53.

:25:53. > :25:56.on the ground. I was instructed to go to MIRA with Eric Oliver, and he

:25:56. > :26:00.was so impressed with the way I performed there that when he got

:26:00. > :26:03.back to the factory, he said he wanted to the Grand Prix with me

:26:03. > :26:06.next year. You ended up in a Watsonian sidecar, what did you

:26:06. > :26:10.know about them at that point? knew about Watsonian sidecars, they

:26:10. > :26:19.were very, very well known. They were the leading sidecar at the

:26:19. > :26:22.time, certainly here in England. They are fine racing sidecars.

:26:22. > :26:27.have seen pictures of you with your nose about an inch from the floor.

:26:28. > :26:31.How scary was all that? Quite frankly, you're too busy to be

:26:31. > :26:36.frightened. Honestly, I'm not being silly, you're too busy to be

:26:36. > :26:39.frightened. But your head is almost on the tarmac. But you are watching

:26:39. > :26:49.what is happening. So really, you're too occupied to be

:26:49. > :26:53.

:26:53. > :26:57.I was having a conversation with someone a while ago, he was a

:26:57. > :27:00.Formula One car man, and I said, these Formula One cars, they do 200

:27:00. > :27:02.miles an hour, with four wheels and one person. I said sidecars are

:27:02. > :27:12.doing 190 miles per hour, thereabouts, with three wheels and

:27:12. > :27:15.two people. Which is more To have a Midlands-based company

:27:15. > :27:21.like this that has survived a whole century is a real success story,

:27:21. > :27:31.but how do they plan to make it through the next hundred years?

:27:31. > :27:32.

:27:32. > :27:36.People that have decided to buy a sidecar will buy a sidecar. It is a

:27:36. > :27:40.toy, quite often people use them to work but it is a toy. If you have

:27:40. > :27:43.made the decision to spend that money on it, you will. We are the

:27:43. > :27:46.biggest and oldest side car manufacturer in the world so we

:27:46. > :27:50.have got lots of heritage, a great name. We are looking at new

:27:50. > :27:53.products all the time, we have got a new side car launching next year

:27:53. > :27:57.and then we are looking at something to do because, maybe some

:27:57. > :28:00.off-road style sidecars, so a lot of exciting things planned.

:28:00. > :28:03.plans to move out of the Midlands? You can't beat working in the

:28:03. > :28:07.Cotswolds, it is a nice drive to work, you can't beat the

:28:07. > :28:10.surroundings, it is fantastic. who knows, with the cost of fuel

:28:10. > :28:20.and travel rising for modern day motorists perhaps there'll be a

:28:20. > :28:22.

:28:22. > :28:30.place for the sidecar on our roads That is it for tonight. Hope you

:28:30. > :28:34.have enjoyed the programme. Good Next week, the sheep rustlers