A typically bad day on the M6 yesterday saw me taking a detour via Stoke-On-Trent and back through Burton-On-Trent, which was always a big brewery town. Couldn't smell the brewery yesterday, but a work colleague and Burton resident assures me that the smell, combined with the Marmite factory, can be pretty nasty!

Pete S i used to work in Aston! Straight up the road leading directly away from the rail station, a couple of hundred yards up there. The scenic delight of a lunchtime walk down the canal under spaghetti junction...