Penny Black's Insurance Week - 26 November

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A day at the races is par for the course for women of Penny’s stature, and at one such occasion last week Penny found herself in the pleasant company of Torus’ head of marine Demian Smith.

In between luckless flutters, Smith revealed he once harboured desires to be a luxury yacht designer.

Faced with a ‘head vs heart’ decision between the Lloyd’s graduate programme and a six-month contract with Oyster yachts, Smith followed his grey matter, reasoning he would one day have a yacht of his own.

Alas, no such luck, but Penny looks forward to coming aboard one day – the good ship Penny has a nice ring to it.

Meanwhile, Penny was stunned to hear news of a fireman doing the very opposite of his job, when Anthony Murray, nicknamed ‘Chunk’, and an accomplice were jailed this week for setting light to a car in the very fire station yard where Murray worked.

Murray was dispatched to a fictional serious car accident miles away while his partner in crime set fire to his black supercar, license plate CH11UNK.

Murray stood to gain a £23 100 insurance windfall but later admitted conspiracy to commit arson, two counts of fraud and one of perverting the course of justice.    

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