■ JEREMY CLARKSON

says he never made a joke about women being bad at parking on top Gear, but anne Robinson thinks the petrolhead should have done. ‘Women are terrible at parking,’ claims the former host of countdown and the Weakest link. ‘I once saw four brickies leave a building site in Gray’s Inn Road [in london], each take a corner of a VW Golf and lift it into a space adequate for several coaches and horses, allowing the female owner to give up her struggle.’ Writing in the Oldie, Robinson is keen to add: ‘But I am not one of these women.’