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because obviously I appreciate you guys much prefer an episode to be both myself and Mark.

I'll be honest, my life has been a bit chaotic recently and it's not even me, it's all the people

around me and our family. So to make life a little bit easier,

I am recording this separately

so that I don't have to reschedule with Mark

for the fourth time

because bless him,

he's been very good at agreeing to reschedules.

But this is just getting a little bit silly.

So I'm just going to go for it so that we definitely get this episode out for you guys. So welcome. Thank you for joining.

It was just after sunset on a bitterly cold January evening in 2023 when a driver on the

M61 motorway near Bolton spotted an eerie orange glow by the roadside.

As he drew closer, he was shocked to see a car, a grey Peugeot 206, engulfed in flames.

The car appeared to be empty and the owner or the driver was nowhere to be found. At first glance it looks

like a textbook case of car theft. Some local tearaway kids nick a vehicle, take it for a joyride

and then they torch it to cover their tracks. Nothing new there. But then again there's always the

chance that something a lot darker had occurred. Maybe the car had even been used in a serious crime and armed robbery, perhaps even a murder.

So the police and the fire brigade were notified, and by the time the firefighters had doused the blaze,

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