DRIVERS STALL OVER PARKING
DODGY drivers can take up to 15 minutes to squeeze into a parking space.
Four out of 10 motorists find parking so stressful they will leave their cars far from a destination to avoid intricate manoeuvres.
And 38% won’t drive at all to places they know finding a space will be awkward.
Richard Evans, from webuyanycar.com, said: “Parking makes us break a real sweat.
“It’s no surprise to see the lengths we’ll go to avoid it, especially if met with an audience of people watching our every move.”
CELEBRITY stars Suggs, Kelly Brook and Sophie Ellis-bextor have joined forces to launch the #Ourhouse2021 campaign.
One year on from the first lockdown, the scheme aims to highlight how our homes have become so much more than places we just eat and sleep.
And they’ve encouraged families to get together for a nationwide singalong to Suggs’s Madness track, Our House.
The singer, 60, said: “Spending a lot of time at home over the past year has meant we’ve all had to adjust to life at home and keep busy.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing how the nation will bring Our House to life as we remember the year we’ve all had.”
Very is behind the idea to promote the perks and quirks of home life over the past 12 months.
Carly O’brien, of the retail giant, said: “It’s natural that the famous track Our House features front and centre in this campaign.”
CARS are set to be banned from large parts of the centre of Newcastle.
The council is spending £50million on a pedestrianisation scheme as it aims to make the city carbon neutral by 2030.
Leader Nick Forbes said: “City centres are changing and they must adapt to survive as now more people are shopping online and climate change has increased the urgency for cleaner, greener spaces.
“We want Newcastle to be an attractive, modern, successful city that is carbon neutral by 2030, where children can grow safely and reach their full potential in life.”
TWIGGY says that when she first visited America in the 1960s locals thought she looked like an “alien”.
The ex-supermodel said she arrived in the US as a “very peculiar-looking child from England” with short hair, wearing a “really short miniskirt” exposing her “skinny little legs”.
The fashion icon, shocked New Yorkers 71, during the 1967 trip. Twiggy said: “They were all in kneelength skirts – girls my age – with pillbox hats. It hadn’t crossed to America yet, that kind of look, so I actually look a bit like an alien.”
The Londoner added: “The difference between how we were dressing and how long it took to get there was quite extraordinary.”