[theo_luddite]

They've had roadworks on the M1 by Luton since they first built the M1. Eventually, it might be wide enough to flatten the whole town.

I had the joy of flying out of Luton once - the day Town played Arsenal in the Cup. I went to the Arsenal match and then flew to some fogbound place in Poland.

The prick on security insisted on me taking my belt off to go through the metal detector, even though it was a cloth belt with plastic clips and a right pain in the arse to thread out of the belt loops on my trousers. Yet I could keep my watch with a metal wrist strap and my metal framed glasses on. Go figure - didn't set any alarm off. Paradise - for thick b@rstewards.

Been to both Vauxhall plants many a time in the past - oh the joys of supplying the UK Automotive Industry. The guys in the office at Luton knew exactly which plane was flying over their heads at any time of day - I think it was the only thing some of them knew to be fair. Mostly Luton vans (there's a surprise) and Rascals going down the production line when I ever saw it moving.