Mr Luck

A funny thing happened to my chum Harry when he took his motorcycle driving test for the first time. He'd gone through all the various sections of the test and was left with just the emergency stop to do.

Mr Luck, the examiner, asked him to drive round the block several times and said that he'd step out into the road at one point and Harry would have to stop sharply - the idea being that he'd need to keep the motorbike in a straight line and upright.

Well, off round the block went Harry. However, he was delayed for a while by a delivery lorry blocking the road. As he turned the final corner to drive down to where the driving examiner had been, he was surprised to see an ambulance and the examiner being carried away on a stretcher. Apparently the examiner had made an error. He'd stepped out in front of the wrong motorcycle and the rider, not expecting this, had knocked him down. 

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Canine Capers

This happened to my friend Wills a couple of years ago. Wills was in his car and had just pulled up at a set of automatic railway level crossing gates that were in the down position. In front of him was a horse and cart and in front of that another car. As all three were waiting for the train to come a man walked past with his dog. The dog, for one reason or another, took a disliking to the horse and bit it on the leg. The horse reacted angrily and kicked out at the dog, but missed and kicked the dog's owner instead. He in turn was furious. So, tying his dog by the lead to the automatic gates, before the cart driver could prevent him he gave the horse a hefty kick in return.

This sparked a chain reaction. The horse reared up and kicked the boot of the car in front. In panic, it then backed the cart into the front end of Wills' car. While all this was going on the dog owner stood by and laughed at the mayhem he'd caused. This was unfortunate because, while he was laughing at everyone else's plight, the train passed, the automatic gates lifted and his dog was hanged. Toodlepip! 

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A jolly scary ghost story

This jolly scary incident happened to my sister three or four years ago. She was staying in a country hotel, a rather creepy old manor house out in the sticks. She didn't sleep well, and as the clock struck midnight she heard the sound of carriage wheels and horses' hooves outside. She looked out to see an old-fashioned hearse, but curiously there was no coffin inside. The ghostly coachman then looked up towards my sister's window and said: "There's room for one more." The phantom hearse then rode away, out of sight.
Next morning my sister had just about recovered, and she returned to the city. She went shopping in a large department store, and on the top floor she made her way to the lift to go down. It arrived crowded with people, but the attendant said to her: "There's room for one more." When she looked at him she could see he had the face of the coachman. "No thank you," she said, dashing away. "I'll walk down."
The lift doors swished shut, and the lift began to descend. Then there were screams, a distant crash, and silence. The lift had fallen to the basement, and everyone inside it had been killed.
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Kids' book sells out

BEVERLEY: WHSmith in Toll Gavel has had to restock with new copies of Molescroft author Roger Driscoll's children's book Echo McCool Outlaw Through Time after selling out.

The story about a magical medieval girl is set in a mythical place called Oswaldley but based on locations in and around Beverley.

It was named in the top ten best reads of 2011 by the website www.goodreads.com.

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Stephen Fry is currently reading...

Please click on the link, Goodreads.com member two-thirds of the way down the page...http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10623239-echo-mccool-outlaw-through-time