A road repair job due to start today has flabbergasted local residents. Flabbergasted, we tells ya!Why? Because in order to repair a stretch of road less than half a mile long, a 47-mile diversion has been put in place.
It’s the work of Somerset Council, which has commissioned repairs on a stretch of Church Street that would ordinarily take less than a minute to drive through. However, the diversion will cost about two hours, according to an MSN story.
As was predicted over a month ago, MINI chose its MINI United event to pull the wraps off its fastest model yet, the John Cooper Works GP II. Claimed extensive use of motor sport technology, means that prototypes have already lapped the infamous Nurburgring circuit in 8 minutes and 23 seconds. This is almost 19 seconds faster than than the first GP that also debuted at MINI United in 2006.
