Eurotunnel said it was managing to clear the backlog of cars and lorries waiting to use its Channel Tunnel car service.

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Wirth has decided to design the new Virgin car without using a wind-tunnel, a tool for shaping a car's aerodynamics that has been de rigueur in F1 for 30 years.

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Rosemary Snell and Michael Rolfe, from Somerset, died when their car was buried at Beaminster Tunnel in July.

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Rosemary Snell and Michael Rolfe, from Somerset, died when their car was buried at Beaminster Tunnel in Dorset.

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Then there was the time a year ago when, in a dark tunnel, the driver of an oncoming car became so unnerved at the sight of Nemitz's lantern-lit coach that he backed up into the wall.

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The tunnel, which was being used by a car repair company, is built on the former site of Dingle railway station.

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Viewer Jean Hobbs suggested turning a Mini Clubman car, which has been uncovered 30 years after being left in a tunnel under the Longbridge factory where it was built, into a sculpture to show off the city's car-making history.

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The central aisle of an airliner, the back seat of a car (stale popcorn crammed into cushion cracks), a coal mine, a hospital waiting room, a long tunnel in which a hot breeze blew first in one direction and then the other.

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