• A stone cold reaction from Highways England after my car window was shattered

    A stone cold reaction from Highways England after my car window was shattered
    Workmen using a strimmer admitted liability but I’m left with a bill for £175Three months ago I was driving round the Salisbury ring road when there was an enormous bang and the side window of my car shattered into fragments. Contractors were strimming the verge and a stone had flown up. They were very apologetic and kind, as I was in a state of shock, and got the car off the road. They admitted it was their fault and gave me the contact details to submit a claim to Highways England,
  • A television brain freeze that put my mozzarella in the shade

    A television brain freeze that put my mozzarella in the shade
    John Crace’s digested week: from George Osborne squeezing Google for loose change to JK Rowling’s views on fontsThere’s never a great time to have a brain freeze. My worst came on University Challenge when I failed to spell mozzarella correctly. Nothing I’ve done since has given my family more pleasure. But now I know it could have been worse. “I’m Stuart Rose,” Stuart Rose told Sky News confidently. “I’m chairman of Ocado.” That’

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