A Truck Load of Tomato Sauce.

Tomato sauce spill, Swaffham traffic, Norfolk news, lorry accidents, road closures and one enormous quantity of ketchup are the unlikely ingredients in this episode of Mark and Pete. Because sometimes the great machinery of world affairs pauses for a moment and Britain gives us the news story we actually need.A truck carrying tomato sauce overturned near Swaffham in Norfolk, spilling its load across the road and leaving emergency services with the sort of clean-up operation nobody quite expects when they start a shift.Yes. A truck load of tomato sauce.There was disruption. There was a road closure. There was an impressive amount of red stuff where red stuff really shouldn't be. And somewhere, presumably, there was a very unhappy person looking at several thousand meals' worth of tomato sauce spreading itself across Norfolk.Naturally, Mark and Pete approach this important breaking story with the journalistic seriousness it deserves.Which isn't very much.We ask whether motorists were able to ketchup with the traffic, whether police managed to get to the sauce of the problem, and whether stranded drivers were left stewing while the clean-up operation got under way. Did anyone relish the challenge? Was the driver in a pickle? And why, at the crucial moment, was there apparently no articulated lorry carrying several tonnes of chips coming in the opposite direction?An opportunity missed.But beneath all this nonsense, and there is quite a lot of nonsense, there's something rather wonderful about British local news. The world may be worrying about wars, elections, artificial intelligence and the future of civilisation, but somewhere in Norfolk a road is covered in tomato sauce and somebody has to sort it out.