Double flat tyre trouble for Pendle MP (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)
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Double flat tyre trouble for Pendle MP
8:00pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News
PENDLE MP Andrew Stephenson had a lucky escape after finding both of his back tyres were flat as he drove through Colne.
Mr Stephenson was making his way to St Mary-le-Ghyll Church, in Barnoldswick, on Sunday morning, when he discovered the problems.
He had not spotted that both tyres were flat because of the snow around the car, but problems arose when he began accelerating.
He said: “There was quite a lot of traffic about at first but as soon as I accelerated above 20mph on North Valley Road the back end of the car slid out.
“I managed to pull in safety and get a taxi to church, and I was only five minutes later, but I guess it was quite fortunate.”
Mr Stephenson was yesterday waiting to hear from the garage whether the tyres had both gone flat at the same time, or been deliberately deflated, or slashec.
He said if foul play was involved he would be reporting the incident to the police. His travel difficulties continued later in the day when it took him 10 hours to get from Colne to London. After catching a rail replacement bus from Colne to Preston, the train to London was initially delayed, before hitting problems with the lines in Rugby.
He finally arrived at his London flat at around 1am.
Comments(16)
Rose Rouge
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10:15pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Whydidtheybanme?
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10:31pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Info-warrior
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11:34pm Tue 22 Jan 13
He finally arrived at his London flat at around 1am. the butler had fluffed up the pillows and turned down the covers before making hot chocolate for his master..It must have been terrible no even horrorific for this MP to be forced into sharing a bus with the peasants between Colne and Preston
How long have we all been in it together for now..?
What about the thousands of people who are put out of their way day after day by inadequate transport services. Railway is nothing more than a dinosaur on its last legs, maybe it may become a popular thing to do.? "pop your MPs tyres" just to see how they like using the public transport. ha ha...
ToffeeGuy
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12:10am Wed 23 Jan 13
Not as let down as I feel with his government.
Common_Sense1
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1:48am Wed 23 Jan 13
The thing that gets me is how did the paper find out about this? Did Andrew ring them with this hot story?
N4you!
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3:37am Wed 23 Jan 13
coates warder
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7:03am Wed 23 Jan 13
4.30mins to get to london in my wagon ha ha
MrsB123
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8:41am Wed 23 Jan 13
pe he doesn't have any further trouble getting to his numerous photo opportunities for The Nelson Leader or as I prefer to call it The Andrew Stephenson Weekly!!!!
MrsB123
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8:44am Wed 23 Jan 13
pe he doesn't have any further trouble getting to his numerous photo opportunities for The Nelson Leader or as I prefer to call it The Andrew Stephenson Weekly!!!!
hi everyone
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9:15am Wed 23 Jan 13
vicn1956
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11:10am Wed 23 Jan 13
Politician has a taste of real world!
St.R
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2:01pm Wed 23 Jan 13
claret style
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2:33pm Wed 23 Jan 13
barryinthailand
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7:29pm Wed 23 Jan 13
claret style wrote:very good
Hope he's not claiming an allowance for two flats in Colne.
Benjy123
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11:14pm Wed 23 Jan 13
I'm quite confident Mr. Stephenson won't grace us with his non-stories after the next election.
Sajdin says...
9:23pm Tue 22 Jan 13
And do we car if his tyres were flat? lol