Today we heard how 27- year old Tom Church discovered it was cheaper for him to buy a car and drive it to Bristol and back rather than than going by train.
He had been quoted £218.10 for the return train ticket from London and so purchased the 1997 Honda Civic, which was being sold for scrap for £80. Road tax for 6 months was £81.38, insurance for one day £20.43 and petrol was £25. A total of £206.81, a saving of more than £10 over the rail fare.
And at the end of it he still has the car and thinks that with a bit of TLC he might even be able to sell it for £200, and since any unused rad tax is refundable, he might even end up making a small profit!
An entrepreneur in the making perhaps!
In the second hour of today’s show, Margaret Mills told us all about smuggling in Essex, and particularly in Rochford where St Andrew’s Church was a hot bed of contraband activity.
If you missed it you can listen again here to what Margaret told me today: –
See you next time,
Scott