"I thought it would be a Buck Rogers thing, " the astrophysicist recalls.

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But Andy Rogers, 37, from nearby Studley, Warwickshire, said he thought the option of a Birmingham trust taking over some some services "could work".

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Shane Rogers, manager of the Last Ink Impressions tattoo shop, said he thought the whistles were a "really, really good idea" because local paid parking and its enforcement was "killing the town".

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It's easy to see why Robbie Rogers gave the answer he did when a journalist asked him what he thought the reaction might be if he were to line up for Leeds against, say, Millwall.

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