It’s also just a 10-minute walk from Oslo S the main

It’s also just a 10-minute walk from Oslo S, the main train station. The Continental is located right in the centre of the city across the road from the National Theatre. The hotel’s elegant Theatercafeen remains one of the places to see and be seen, with its Vienna coffee house d?r.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATIONHotel Continental, Stortingsgaten 24-26 (00 47 22 82 4000, ). The Continental is the most venerable of Oslo’s top-notch hotels. It has a real feel of the Thirties, with wooden phone booths and misted windows Staff are friendly and relaxed and there is a pleasant bar. They play the Royal Albert Hall on 12 November, call 020-7589 8212 for tickets.

What a joke, eh? That doesn’t even cover the cost of my cigarettes …” EThe Rhythm Kings’ UK tour begins on 4 November. Over the years, I’ve given millions to the government in tax and how much pension do I get?” The face crumbles, the cheeks sag “£34 a week. Bill Wyman isn’t exactly poor, but he does switch the light off when leaving a room.”Put it this away: I’ll never be able to afford to retire When I turned 65, I became entitled to a state pension. Consequently, these days he retains just three homes (London, Suffolk, the south of France), three cars, a maid, a nanny, a cook and a PA And of course Terry Taylor, man Friday. All their models are hard to break into and almost impossible to drive away Trouble is, you cannot buy a Lexus for £10,000. Companies such as Pentagon Glass Tech (0800 279 2795) can help, but the cost will be several hundred pounds for most models.

Of course, Mr Birrell should not leave things on show in the car, such as plastic bags, coats, CDs, or even small change, because thieves will always want a closer look.A car for the headMr Birrell probably wants to know which is the most secure car and the best indicator has been What Car? magazine’s annual independent survey.The winner of the 2003 Security Award is the Lexus. But synthetic films professionally stuck to the windows prevents them being broken. What Mr Birrell ought to worry about is having his car broken into. Thieves do not worry about overcoming locking systems when all they have to do is smash a window.Glass is still fitted as standard to most cars and side windows can be shattered easily.

But most contemporary cars are difficult to steal, unless the thief has the key.Buy a car built in the past few years and it will have a unique key and immobiliser system that means it is impossible to move the car without it. He would like a new car but is paranoid about having it stolen. What is a safe choice, but still a stylish one, for about £10,000?
Yes, Britain has the worst vehicle theft problems in Europe, and with 1,100 being taken a day that is almost one a minute. Kevin Birrell is a 34-year-old graphic designer who lives in east London. Only if we do this will the ‘doubters’ to the change be convinced that the benefits far outweigh any disadvantages.During my thirty years in the road safety profession, I have seen no other initiative that – at virtually nil cost – could save death and injury on the scale that the adoption of CET could bring.The writer is the chief executive of the Guild of Experienced Motorists. Even employers’ organisations see benefit in adopting CET to allow their staff to travel home, after work, in the safety of daylight.GEM is supporting RoSPA in a call to the Government to introduce an experimental period of CET.