RECENT poll reveals that us Brits have voted the Claudia Schiffer car ad our least favourite on TV.

This is despite the fact that the supermodel performs an on-screen striptease. Mine and Carter's theory is that we don't like it because she shuts the door before you really see anything.

Apparently, it was recently played at a North West Cricket ground where the audience booed when the ad finished.

To solve the problem, Carter's going to write to the car company to ask them to record a special version where she doesn't shut the car door! Carter's joke of the week A cavalry man was riding through the desert and his captain instructed him to hide behind the bacon tree.

A few minutes later he came back covered in arrows.

The captain says "What happened?"

"It wasn't a bacon tree" said the cavalry man: "It was a ham-bush!" We read this week about a their who snatched a handbag from a woman's car in Dorset.

He got the bag, but unfortunately for him in his haste, he left his glass eye behind.

We were wondering if she caught him stealing, would she have asked him out? Carter reckons he knows the thief and says the bloke doesn't go out with everyone who catches his eye. Remember when you were a child you couldn't wait to be an adult so that you could stay up all night?

So why is it now that we're adults, we're constantly tired and have to go to bed early? If you're a Beatles fan then this week's competition is a cracker! We can offer you the chance to win one of THREE pairs of tickets to the show Anthology of the Beatles on Sunday July 12 at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. Just answer the question below and you'll be entered into the draw to win.,

"On which beatles album cover where they are seen crossing the road?"

Just put your answer on a postcard or a sealed envelope to Beatles Anthology Competition, Preston Citizen, 3 Winckley Court, Preston, PR1 3JJ.

The first four correct answers drawn after the closing date (July 10) will each win a pair of tickets. Normal Citizen contest rules apply.

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