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CROSSWORD
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Across 1 Western fraudulent operator? (6) 4 It avoids driving through town in Rugby – pa’s smiling (6) 8/4dn. Car user with restricted movement? Show it on the street! (4,5) 9 Given a penalty – nice day initially (5) 10 Northern city: Roy reversed next to parking centre (4) 11 Carry out a driving action (ECL in Dutch) (8) 12 Irene could be a man’s name (5) 13 Specimen males upset about head of parking! (6) 15 Where we learn there’s usually a patrolled crossing near it (6) 18 Navigation aid manufacturer – beat it! (6) 20 Vehicle fuel supplier (South) adds up (6) 22 Supporter a multi-storey car park user might carelessly bump into? (6) 24 End of parking and Oslo converts to Venice-style transport (8) 26 Biblical character in RoSPA – be lenient (4) 27 Penalty for repeatedly feeding this? (5) 28 Urban area possibly won’t (4) 29 Billionaire providing secure access to eg parking site? (5) 30/6 If you drive up one don’t expect to come back down! (3-3,6)
SOLUTION TO FEBRUARY CROSSWORD Across: 5,Spaces 8,Approval 10,Senator 11,Rip off 12/14,Wheel clamping 17,Station 18,Drivers 21,Side road 24/22,Pick-up truck 26,Wardens 28,Electric 29,Passat.
Down: 1,FPNs 2,Patrols 3,Loop 4,Bad fog 6,Congested 7,Site 9,Park Mark 13,Hit 15,Inverness 16,Lorry park 19,RAC 20,Gatwick 21,Spills 23,Trip 25,Kick 27,Saab.
Congratulations to our winner, Diane Alford of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. A £25 book token is on its way.
Down 1 It doesn’t off er a way through Dales, UCC sadly (3-2-3) 2 Great invention: motorists are right behind it (5) 3 Park so and you won’t be in the way of the public (3-6) 4 See 8ac. 5 Walker gets parking ticket at such a site (3,2,4) 6 See 30ac. 7 Edges slowly forward in vain, Chester (6) 14 Users take a dim view of such car parks (6-3) 16 Perpetrator of such an accident leaves victim hurt and in diffi culty? (3-3-3) 17 No parking on this road made of clayware (8) 19 May is parked next to end of bay – powerful! (6) 21 Vehicle safety feature fi rst class – brag outrageously (6) 23 T ey’re inclined to slow down traffi c (5) 25 Now to change – behind a recovery vehicle? (2,3)
NOW WHERE DID I LEAVE MY CAR?
It is a tale of two memory-losses. Almost three years ago, Gerald Sanctuary left his silver Honda in a car park while he went shopping in St Albans. T e 80-year-old, who
suff ers from dementia, parked in the NCP-run car park in May 2008. After completing his
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shopping, he returned home without the car and, despite the best eff orts of his family, the vehicle was not found. Jermaine Pennant,
the Premiership footballer who now plays for Stoke, not only forgot where he had parked his Porsche – he
even forgot that he owned one! Now both men
have been reunited with their vehicles.
Mr Sanctuary was contacted by NCP, who were alerted by a car park attendant when she realised the car was looking suspiciously dirty. In the case of the forgetful footballer, his former club Real Zaragoza contacted Mr Pennant,
after the car had been parked at a railway station in the Spanish city for fi ve months. According to an
article published in Spanish newspaper Marca, Pennant said that he did not remember having owned the car when Real contacted him!
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