Bedford Driving Lessons

All afternoon he had listened to the thwack of leather on willow from his garden beside the village green. But when the fifth ball crashed against his window, Neil Cutts decided it just wasn’t cricket. The enraged 38-year-old software engineer leapt into his 4×4 and drove it on to the pitch, scattering players and sending spectators running for cover. Then he parked it in front of the wicket – and refused to move until he got an apology. Astonished officials were forced to abandon the match and ask Mr Cutts to remove his Toyota Rav4 from their freshly mown strip. Eventually the players – who posed for photos with the unlikely addition to the pitch – apologised, and the father of two removed his car. But yesterday the remarkable saga was the talk of the the village of St Helens on the Isle of Wight. More