the-oid,lady with

the:right~harid halve~?: 1 '. i .'

the-oId,lady with

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1M A UiR'E'£N.nd'TER:RY

SHARPElIbove): twohalves make£10,000-111

done without the, 'helno!

IILL HE'NS<LEY'," a!1d hie.comnuhr, (riahU •

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of 'BP and. .,1:latdona.1 andTHEY haNel' a top· wack of£20,000. .';. ,,' -' 'B<ut back to, ElihelJ. Has no

one ~ 'found -:8.' -, 'right-hancl£10,000 yet-?, '.' .' .Yes they haVe .. 'Four' have

turned up 50' far':"'in, .Mother-well;: Bradt, ord;" HaywardsHeath and Oun<lle. All were·'. Instantly, turned;'lnto-' cll-Sh.' :,, The Oundle ,CoupOn,a fineexample of late 20th . centuryvoucherwork and very rare~was discovered; '1n' 'this way ..Mr TeriYSllal:~ has a shop :

In Oundle-he. dealll'In second· .hand furniture,'. 't\nd he fiUshIs Transit van twice a weeka.t MarshaJI's a smaugiu'ageIn the vJllage.' ._,. Six sealed Shell coupons, had accumulated on his dash~board before his wife· openedthem, found a oommonplaceleft-hand £10,000 couPOI\among lihem and put lit In herpurse. , 'That weekend the ShaI1p€s'

17-year-old son -Darren filledup his motol"bl.ke at Mai'shall'sand' brought oook a couponwith the ohange. His fathershoved It In his pooket butopened It next day,Unbellev-ably It Wa.<!· a. rlr,rht-hand£10,000.There has been some cele-brating at Oundle lately.. TheTe have also been longqueues of motorlsts atMarshall's.

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11ne way (JIf hdl1Ang uhe jack,pot WltlhOll't going 'near apetrol pump, .' , ' "'He Is an Insmanoe broker

Wiho works at ~lome, emplay·,lng' hls gir1!rle,nd,' Pam, and'an' Osborne buslne$iS compu~ I

tel' wlhl~h, ihe says, ,had' plentYof spare ca-paclty,So he 'advertised too. He

&i\ld Vhat for a' nleq-e £5 he)VoUJId pU't your I1l1me, addressand detaIls of your' couJPonsonto th'ls computer 'and ItwoUJld'pult ' you' m touoh withtale owners or the, otJ1erhalves. '

Computer, People nlshed to join Mr'

'.' Hensley's ,sche,me and pleas-,Ingclouds of £5' notes des-cended on" HIgh . street,Warboys. Within' days ·2QOOpeople had registered theircoupons on the computer-59MANY left·hand' £10,000s-,and new ones are coming In"at the rate of 150 a day. .,. Mr Hensley has had tp take,'on three girlS to answer' thetelephones' and'· bank the~heques and to rope In an-other computer " round, thecorner. The Post Office hasput In two extra Hnes buteven so 0487-82;1723 Is COI1'8'tantly engaged as the girlscope.- with,,· the, flood ofhopefuls.' , ''Mr Hensley's success rate .Is

no-t large so far.' No right-hand £10,ooos have come Inat all. Mr Hensley's theory Isthat there's an orld lady some·where who gets one every-time she buys petrol and thenputs It In a drawer. Thercsti• 'he says, are proba.b]y In ,ScO'Wand. 'He hM only found one

matching pall' of £1000s andthey have not yet been eon- Iflrmed. But, he says, he hassuccessful £10, £1 and SOpmatch-ups every day and, withonJy ,three weeks of the Shell'scheme left, things wlll hotup now he says. After thatthere will be weeks and weeks

Bob Walker who Is In thecar hire busine,ss In Lambethand so does a'lot of driVingnow has s!'x left-hand £10,000sand five rll1ht·hand £10005.not to mention a pile of £1005,£1Os, £ls and 50ps.He advertised In The SLan-

dal'd and ha,d 47 replies. Noneof them had a right-hand£10,000 or a left-hand £l(}OO.The frustration 1, Meanwhlle 111a ttl.le Hun"tlngdon vlJlage called Wal"~'s31-year-old Bill Hcns,ley saw a

appear to have been cut Inhalf, If you get both halvesyou can cash them In.

n Is a speclAlcularly success-Shell saYs'lt coupons1,put end I

to end, would reach we Falk··land! though they don't men· 'tlon the problem of mld-al"refuelling. I don't 'know wher&BPs coupons would reach.They really are Inful"latlng,

these coupons. So manydef~hand £10,0006, so few !'lght-hands, ,how could .she I dothis to us? There must, be . 'some rIght-hand £10,0006 but Iwhere ' and 'how many, andwho has them?'Such are the questions, on

the nation's Ups in these crltl·Clll times and the bolderspirits among us do somethingabout It. They buy their petrolIlttle and often,- thus gettirigseveral coupons a week. 'I1hey-

i boldoJy drive Into petrol ste.·'t1ons and Ignore the pumpsaltogether, demanding a cou-pon, as Is' their right, anddrlvini straight out again.;And they advertise. ''I1he

. sensible 0 n e s choose, TheStandard but we rriust admIt

, that· other papers get their, share. Day by day the adsmarch pOignantly' dow n the,persona, colllllms' with acommon; ,Increasingly 'd e JO •pairing tJheme;

Wan ted : right - hand. '£10,000' Shell coupon.Also the elixir of youth and

the gOlden gralJ . • • ,

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EVENINGSTANDARD

r HAVE a' ,le!t~hand 'get fat and get' a ~reply£10,000 Shell GouPOI1: ·Lt when they ring the box-js the wrong' half, the "office of Starlight. Ex-one everyone - gets. I press. - ", .., 'might have, known. Non-J!1otorlsts and "Mar4

People who:get' right- tlans may' not know thathand £10000 Shell cou- -: ShelI Is givIng ,out these

. '. ' " ,. ' coupons at' their petrolpons are ~ix feettall, e,at statIons. They are vouchersall they want a~d Jilever 'for various sums and