Quote of the day

"Mr McCormack confided that the air was gradually escaping his body in the way that air usually does."

Credit to the BBC journalist responsible for this classic last line of a report into a rather bizarre incident involving a trucker and a big compressed air hose.

It smacks of one of those implausible compromising situation stories - you know the sort: vicar busy hanging curtains in the nip falls off his stepladders and ends up with a potato lodged up his arse...