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View Article  Teenagers tune in to get sound driving skills
by Steve Swinton on Tue 22 Dec 2009 14:39 GMT

Teenagers tune in to get sound driving skills

Bolton News Wednesday 16th December 2009

SPECIAL classes all about music and cars are being rolled out to bored teenagers to help keep them out of trouble.

It comes after a successful trial of the course, which has passed on new skills to youngsters while also giving them something to do.

The course gave the youngsters, aged 14 to 16, the chance to get their hands on a real car so they could learn how to fit its audio equipment during a series of sessions at Bolton garage, SC Auto electrics, which also provided the vehicle.

Over six sessions on Wednesday nights, the young people who attend the St Helens Road youth club covered subjects including car wiring, how to fit speakers and other audio equipment and how to measure sound and soundproof cars, as well looking at topics like how music affects people’s driving and how to drive safely while listening to music.

Wilson Litchmore, a youth worker for Bolton Council, said: “The young men involved in this course have responded really positively to the sessions because it is something they have an interest in and it really gives them a sense of ownership and responsibility.

“It has also improved their respect for cars because they realise the amount of time and money that goes into them.”

The scheme has been supported by the Government’s Youth Opportunity Fund (YOF), which is part of Aiming High, a 10-year strategy by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide young people with something to do in their local area.

And Wilson Litchmore added that the sessions have proved so popular that Bolton Council is planning to roll them out, so that even more young people can benefit.

He added: “The young men involved have conducted themselves really well and worked well together as a team, because they know that they will all get the opportunity to contribute to working on the car and therefore collectively they will have all learnt new skills over the six week period.

“The garage owner, Steve Challinor, has been really impressed with the boys’ behaviour and is now considering taking appren- tices on in the future because he knows that young people can do a really good job.

“It’s certainly something that some of the young lads might be looking at for a career.”

* More information about activities for young people in Bolton can be found at www.youngboltonlife.org.uk.

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View Article  One eyed Deaf Driver Banned from Driving.
by Steve Swinton on Tue 22 Dec 2009 11:56 GMT
Deaf driver with glass eye banned
 
Speedometer
The pensioner said he confused the rev counter with the speedometer
A deaf 83-year-old motorist with a glass eye has been banned from driving for 45 days after he was caught speeding on the A9 in his new car.

Maurice Hollyfield was doing 88mph while towing a trailer on a single carriageway with a 50mph limit.

Perth Sheriff Court heard it was the second time in less than a year that the pensioner had been caught speeding.

Hollyfield, from Milton Keynes, had told the court he had been reading the rev counter instead of the speedometer.

As well as the ban, the retired British Aerospace inspector was given a £300 fine for the offence on the A9 at Waterloo, in Perthshire, on 4 April last year.

'Loud music'

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "By any stretch of the imagination he is going at a fair lick and it's not even a dual carriageway, it's a single carriageway.

"He has a previous conviction for speeding in July 2006, which was nine months prior to this.

"He should know the difference between 50, 60 and 88mph. He would see the trees flying past at a great rate."

The court was told that Hollyfield had only ever passed a very basic test while driving a lorry in the Army nearly 70 years ago.

Solicitor David Holmes, defending, said: "He said the reason for his driving was that he was listening to loud music on his cassette player because of his deafness.

"It was a new car and the instrument panel was very different. He kept glancing at what he thought was the speedometer, but it wasn't."

Mr Holmes added: "He is not without a sense of humour. He told me he really likes the car, now that he knows where the instrument panel is."    

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