Here's an interesting fact: A hamster can keep up to half its body size in its cheek pouches. So that's why the Chancellor of the Exchequer looks like he does!

A working model of the first ever Toyota car has been made, measuring just 4.785 millimetres long, but I'll still bet you can't find a parking space big enough in Preston to park in on a Saturday afternoon.

Good news that Ford will not be changing the name of the Escort after protests from owners.

There has been the Escort Pop, Escort XR3i and the Escort Ghia ... I wonder why they never brought out a model called the Escort Agency?

Claudia Schiffer is the latest star to say they'd like to be cloned. The idea of started following the success of a cloned sheep. What a great idea. I mean, it's not as if they all look alike as it is!

Wacky veg is the latest craze to hit our supermarkets in a bid to get kids to eat vegetables.

Chocolate flavoured carrots, baked bean flavoured beans, cheese and onion cauliflower ... why not try a bogie flavour? When I was a kid, the big difference between bogies and brussel sprouts is my mum could never get me to eat brussel sprouts.

No doubt you heard how we locked pint-sized fellow presenter Jamie Moore in our studio toilets.

His big problem was that he couldn't reach the lock. Why he didn't walk out UNDER the door I'll never know ...

This week I have THREE brand new James CD albums to be won. The Whiplash album includes the hit single She's a Star.

For your chance to win one of these prizes, just write the answer to the following question on a postcard with your name and address and send to: James Comp, Preston Citizen, 3 Winckley Court, Chapel Street, Preston, PR1 3JJ.

The question is: What was James' first and biggest hit? The closing date for entries is May 2.

Rock Fm web site is at redrose.demon.co.uk

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