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Brits bamboozled by bizarre rules

EUROPEAN driving laws are leaving Brits in a bit of a pickle, with many people completely unable to separate wacky truths from absurd fiction. To celebrate its new road trip competition, chocolate experts Cadbury dug up a selection of crazy driving laws across the continent and mixed them in with some entirely invented ones to create a quiz that caught many folks by surprise. For a start, 75% of people refused to believe that a dirty car is punishable by law in Belarus.

Sinkhole swallows family car

A 30FT DEEP sinkhole has opened up in the driveway of a house in Buckinghamshire and swallowed up a family's car. Firefighters were called to the property in Main Road, Walter's Ash, High Wycombe, at 8.32am on Sunday where they found the hole which is 15ft in diameter. No-one was inside the Volkswagen Lupo when the hole opened up.

Nissan Land Glider, Leaf, Roox star at Tokyo

By Tim Pollard First Official Pictures 08 October 2009 09:30 Nissan will show off a range of electric cars at the 2009 Tokyo motor show, kicking off in a few weeks' time. The Leaf, which was unveiled earlier this summer, will receive its world show debut but this is the first time we've seen the new Nissan Land Glider – a narrow electric vehicle concept that leans into corners.The Land Glider is an urban transport solution, Nissan's take on how we could whizz around town in a decade's time. It has a cigar-thin body with room for just one passenger and Nissan says its width will reduce congestion and make it easy to park.