Last week, Richard Hammond, otherwise known affectionately as "Hamster" by his co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May, crashed a jet car while performing a speed run for the top rating BBC programme "Top Gear".
There was a collective sucking in of breath from the safety vultures.
It seems Richard will survive. All Top Gear fans (and there are millions around the globe) are waiting anxiously to see if "Hamster" returns to the TV screen with his impish sense of humour and incisive wit intact, after suffering a "significant" brain injury. We all wish him well. I have personally couriered him a rag impregnated with the smell of oil and petrol and instructed him to sniff twice daily until the urge to be politically incorrect returns, and that if symptoms persist, to see a mechanic.
Now, strange as it may seem,
