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Jul 5 2009 by Mr Justice, Sunday Sun

Lynda and Robert Smoult who had a disaster coach trip to see scouser Ken Dodd perform at York

CAN your consumer champ win a splendiferous success for Ken Dodd fans Robert and Lynda Smoult?

The couple told me how their titters-per-minute ratio was cut by the coach company which organised their trip to a concert.

They were ordered to leave the gig just 10 minutes into the star’s second-half performance.

Hit me with your tickling stick! Whatever for?

Glenton Holidays said their driver had to leave before the end of the show to comply with the law on working hours.

Robert and Lynda would be left behind if they were not at the pick-up point in time. So they reluctantly trudged back to the coach for a hour’s ride back to their hotel.

The gig by the entertainer, also known as Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty, Operatic Tenor and Sausage-Knotter, was diddy in more ways than one.

Lynda, of Gosforth, Newcastle, said: “My husband has always wanted to see Ken Dodd. Although he is on at the Sunderland Empire in August we could not make that date because of family commitments.

“The alternative was an organised trip to the Grand Opera House in York. It seemed an ideal opportunity to see Ken Dodd with a weekend away thrown in for good measure.”

So far, so good, and the couple booked their mini-break.

But there was a knotty problem when they were dropped off for the concert.

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