Sunday Mirror

OF A CHEEK Examiner sues learner for giving him emergency stop ‘whiplash’

- BY DAN WARBURTON

said: “It was a nightmare. It’s nerve-racking enough doing a driving test – let alone the examiner trying to sue you afterwards.

“He asked me to perform the emergency stop, so I did, and then he started groaning that I braked too hard and fast. But I felt fine, and so did my driving instructor.” At that point Mr Priestley told him he had failed and asked the instructor to drive the car back to the test centre at Sutton Coldfield. Ben was WE know it’s only rock and stroll – but it seems Take That’s Howard Donald doesn’t like it.

Hairy Howard, 48, wearing a John Motson-style sheepskin, looks more taken with his phone than his year-old son Bowie in a buggy.

But the singer will need plenty of patience as wife Katie Halil is about to given a note saying: “Test terminated due to examiner not fit to carry on.” In May, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency wrote to Ben saying Mr Priestley had been discipline­d and had dropped the case. It offered him a free re-test and he passed in December. A DVSA spokeman said: “Mr Priestley no longer works for the DVSA. We can’t comment any further.” have their second tot. He tweeted: “Yay! No more sleep for another 2 years!”

Howard, who has Grace, 17, and Lola, 11, from a previous relationsh­ip, was on daddy duty near the London home of ex-bandmate Robbie Williams. It fuelled rumours they will join Gary Barlow on his talent show Let It Shine.

With a new nipper imminent it’s not only Gary who wants him back for good.

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SECOND ATTEMPT Ben after passing his driving test

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