Weekender Alicante North Issue 115

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Alex Trelinski’s
SERIOUSLY
STUPID
A motorist has been arrested after travelling
unsupervised in a stolen car on his own driving
test.
West Midlands Police said the man had failed
his test for the 10th time , and the force posted
a picture of the white Mitsubishi vehicle the
driver had shown up in before officers attended
the scene.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of taking
a vehicle without the owner’s consent at the test
centre in the Great Barr area of Birmingham.
Officers from the Force Response unit took to
Twitter to describe the motorist as ‘stupid’.
The force said: ‘Welcome to the world of stupid.
Male turns up at the driving test centre
for his driving test. Having driven himself
there unsupervised.’
Back In
BRITANNIA DOESN’T RULE
BRITANNIA Hotels has value for money as well as the quality
been ranked the worst hotel of food, customer service and overall
chain in the UK yet again.
cleanliness.
The budget chain has just been Britannia, which has 61 hotels
handed the title for the seventh year across the UK, received one star out
in a row, whilst EasyHotel and Ibis of five in almost every category except
Budget also performed badly. customer service, for which it scored
In the Which? survey, guests described
its rooms as “filthy” and com-
score of 39%, slightly above the 35% it
two stars. The chain received a total
plaining about mouldy bathrooms had last year
and peeling paintwork.
But the chain ranked best may surprise
you: Wetherspoon’s hotels were
Which? asked more than 8,000 hotel
guests of 40 well-known chains to rated best for the first time, sharing
rate everything from bed comfort to the top spot with Premier Inn, which
GOVERNMENTS love to waste money, and one con-
sequence of Brexit being delayed again(we should
have left today, according to Boris Johnson) is the
millions wasted on a telling people to “Get Ready for
Brexit” on October 31st.
Over the past few weeks, the government has spent a
bundle of taxpayers’ money on their Brexit public information
campaign, most of which offered little illumination
as to what was actually going to happen..
As well as buying physical billboards and ads on TV
and radio, the government has also spent a lot of money
on Facebook adverts.
Now we hear that MPs are going to investigate the cost
and the contents of the Brexit campaign with a Commons
committee chairperson, Meg Hillier, quoted as telling a
has come first for the last four years of
the survey.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
newspaper that “it was difficult to prove that the campaign
delivered any tangible benefit and that the ads
were not very informative”.
That’s putting it mildly!