Yesterday we ran a story about June Emmett who registered her car as being off the road (SORN) and correctly parked it in her front garden.
But officials clamped it anyway and June faced the prospect of it being crushed before The Star stepped in and banged heads together.
It also turns out the DVLA will give a name and address to anyone with a car registration number who can demonstrate a 'reasonable cause' for having the information.
That includes clamping companies who slap intimidating, but legally dodgy, £75 'fines' on motorists who are five minutes late.
But the DVLA, who last year lost three million details of learner drivers, will also give information to any person who gives a convincing story for wanting it. In these days of rampant identity theft that just can't be right.
Tat's entertainment
Blazing sunshine brought the flesh out this week and almost everyone was sporting a tattoo.
But if you're one of the six people in Sheffield who hasn't had one yet it's worth remembering trendy tats date.
In 1996 Pamela Anderson popularised the upper arm band in her film Barb Wire.
Then Scary Spice sparked the trend for Chinese characters when the Spice Girls were top of the pops in the late 90s. Some of them say 'love', 'peace' or 'balance' but doubtless some say 'egg foo yung' or 'Chairman Mao forever', there's no way of telling.
Celtic and tribal designs took over in the early noughties, great big interlocking slashes and swirls that must be murder to have done.
And now stars - just like the logo on the front of this paper - are the 'in' thing. A few of different sizes sprinkled here and there; down the forearm, across the hand, behind the ear. They're the height of fashion - but then so were flares and you wouldn't want to wear them forever.
Taste-bud test
HAD some of the new Henderson's Relish crisps this week - and they certainly left a lasting impression.
The Yorkshire Crisp Company makes them with a dried form of the legendary Sheffield sauce.
And very tasty they are too, but by gum they're garlicky. The aftertaste lasted all lunchtime, all afternoon and was still tingling the tastebuds when I was having tea. I'm a big fan of Henderson's but this was taking things too far.
Top of the world
WHAT'S the most important thing you need to climb Everest? Answer: £28,000.
That's the going rate if you want Jagged Globe to get you up the world's highest peak.
Adele Pennington, a senior guide at the Sheffield-based company, has just returned from an expedition which put all seven clients on top. In so doing she became the 20th British woman to make it and she'll be featured in The Star next week.
But Adele says money alone won't get you on the trip. Aspirants have to be fit, have some snow and ice climbing experience and they have to all get on. On average there's a 30 per cent success rate.
Adele, aged 42, said: "When people say Everest is a walk in the park, they're the ones who don't understand altitude."
By the way, the very top is only the size of a full-size snooker table.