Mercedes for sale – not exactly one careful owner…
Car buyers looking for some ‘Top Gear’ should look no further – Jeremy Clarkson’s old Mercedes is for sale for just £13,990. Clarkson put his money where his motormouth was in 2002, spending almost £100,000 on the sporty Mercedes SL55 AMG. The TV star even took it on to Top Gear to review, describing it as the ‘Swiss army knife’ of cars

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Plane fuselage causes traffic hold-ups on M4 in Wiltshire
An aeroplane fuselage caused tailbacks on the M4 and main roads in the West today as it travelled from south Wales to Cotswold Airport.

The Airbus A321 took up two lanes of the motorway on its two-day journey to the ‘plane graveyard’ on the Wiltshire-Gloucestershire border.

Measuring 20ft wide, 16ft high and 151ft long, it weighs 58 tonnes, it crossed the Severn on Saturday and today continued across Wiltshire on the M4, before heading north along the A417 to the east of Swindon to…

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Tidal surge causes River Avon to flood in Bristol
Roads were flooded in Bristol today as high spring tides and a tidal surge forced the Avon to burst its banks.

There was little disruption thanks to the use of flood defences – especially the barrier at Avon Crescent, Hotwells, which flooded earlier this year for the first time since the 1960s – but higher tides are expected tomorrow morning.

The council is warning drivers to plan ahead for their journeys as flood water is expected to affect the Portway, Avon Crescent, Cattle Market Road and…

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Huge plane to bring congestion to M4 this weekend
Police are warning of traffic congestion as the massive fuselage of an Airbus A321 plane trundles across the West this weekend.
The plane is being taken from south Wales to the ‘plane graveyard’ at Cotswold Airport on the Wiltshire-Gloucestershire border, and will take up two lanes of the M4 over two days tomorrow and on Sunday.
Measuring 20ft wide, 16ft high and 151ft long, it weighs 58 tonnes and will be ‘slow moving’ as it travels east along the M4 into the West on Saturday. On Sunday it will…
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