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PEOPLE OF 2007

JOHN SMEATON BY PAUL DALGARNO

JOHN Smeaton is hacked off. Big style. The former baggage handler, stuck in traffic near Edinburgh, is close to the boil. "I'm frustrated," he says. "Frus-tra-ted." A woman from the BBC snatches the phone from his hand.