A couple of years ago, there was a knock at the door of one of our stations, just this side of the Scottish border. On answering, the duty crew found a rather florid lady with a Merc parked nearby. She asked how much further it was to Birmingham. On being told that it was about 225 miles, she became quite cross. "Don't be ridiculous," she said. " It's only about 110 miles from London!!" The mystified crew agreed that, indeed, Birmingham was only about 110 miles from London; nevertheless, they pointed out, their ambulance station was some 225 miles from Birmingham. "Well, I've followed all of the signs pointing to The North," she said, "And I've still not reached Birmingham." The penny dropped. Tea was provided. The news was carefully broken to her that the next British city - north of where she now was - was Glasgow. She had started from Hampstead about 7 hours previously, and had managed to miss Birmingham entirely. It rather puts the LAS story into perspective! Mercs have big fuel tanks