"The girls ask about colour. Fiona [Fullerton] wanted my advice last week, choosing between a blue or a peach dress. I said: 'The peach it makes you look like something from an old Hollywood movie."

In 1988 the pair starred in The World According to Smith and Jones for LWT before returning to the BBC for a series of playlets Smith and Jones in Small Doses (1989) and Smith and Jones (1989-97), the latter tilting at the favourite targets of "alternative" humour, police and other authority figures, as well as emerging phenomena such as squeegee-toting windscreen washers at traffic lights. But although the show earned Smith and Jones a British Comedy Award, some critics detected a falling-off in quality as it went into a fifth and final series in 1997.

At the end of the route, the driver pulls up underneath the Opbrid B??sbaar charging station, and the tram-like pantographs on the bus roof quickly raise up to contact the B??sbaar. The charging process is completely automatic, with the driver never having to leave the bus. When the batteries are charged, the driver continues on as normal. The batteries are fully charged at night, with the B??sbaar providing the additional electricity needed for a full day of electric driving.

"The number of member states which have difficulties with a possible decision has been slowly diminishing."

"Now, what about that bloke who used to present Weekend World in the Eighties?"