The Frankfurt Motor Show gives carmarkers the opportunity to show the heights and depths of their ingenuity. Relatively speaking, of course.

An indoor bar with 20 bottles of Dom Perignon champagne and a sunken bath with a jacuzzi were among the trappings of wealth uncovered during one of the searches on associates of the Kinahan crime cartel.

Some 35 high-powered vehicles, nine Rolex watches, and €30,000 in cash, with a total value of around €1m was seized yesterday in an operation targeting a gang involved in a murderous feud.

Ozzy Osbourne has passed his driving test – 30 years after his first attempt.