Footage shared on Instagram user Aaronspotz shows the broadcaster beside an Aston Martin Valhalla before getting into the driver’s seat in the capital.

Mr Clarkson, who made his name fronting the BBC’s Top Gear before launching The Grand Tour on Amazon, is one of Britain’s best‑known motoring presenters.

The 66-year-old, who lives in Oxfordshire, has long been associated with high‑performance cars and has owned or driven a long list of sports models over the years.

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The Aston Martin Valhalla is the latest hybrid hypercar from the British marque and sits at the very top of its road‑car range.

According to Aston Martin, the mid‑engined machine pairs a 4.0‑litre twin‑turbocharged V8 sourced from Mercedes‑AMG with a trio of electric motors.

The plug‑in hybrid set‑up produces a total of around 1,064 horsepower and more than 800 lb ft of torque, with power sent to all four wheels.

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Performance figures released by the manufacturer suggest the Valhalla can reach 62mph from a standstill in close to 2.5 seconds and go on to a top speed in excess of 200mph.

Only a limited number of examples are due to be built, with specialist motoring outlets reporting a price tag in the region between £850,000 and £1,000,000.

The brief London clip has been circulating on supercar‑spotter channels, where users have highlighted both the rarity of the Valhalla and Mr Clarkson’s long association with Aston Martin road tests on television.

Zoologist Dr Jo Wimpenny is the author of Beauty of the Beasts: Rethinking Nature’s Least Loved Animals, which explores the value and importance of some of the animal kingdom’s most maligned creatures.

The book aims to challenge perceptions of animals that have long been labelled as pests or predators, such as wasps, cockroaches, and snakes, and argues instead for their vital roles in ecosystems and their potential benefits to humanity.

Dr Wimpenny said: “These aren’t monsters – they’re ecological heroes whose intelligence and emotional complexity rival species we adore.”

Drawing on scientific research, the book highlights the surprising abilities and ecological contributions of these species.

Dr Wimpenny explains how wasps can recognise faces and provide natural pest control, while snakes’ venom may hold clues to treating cancers, mosquitoes play a part in pollination, and crocodiles perform mating rituals that could be described as ‘dancing’.

She argues that losing these animals would severely disrupt ecosystems and calls for a change in how we view and treat them.

The book seeks to raise awareness of the emotional and cognitive complexity of these often-feared species.

It was published by Bloomsbury on February 26.

Dr Wimpenny holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she studied tool use in crows.

It was an afternoon for nostalgia as former journalists at the Oxford Mail and The Oxford Times held a reunion.

More than 30 packed into the Kings Arms at Kidlington to recall old times in the newspaper offices.

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These were the days when we had staff based not only in Oxford but in Witney, Banbury, Bicester, Thame, Abingdon, Didcot, Wallingford and Wantage, covering news from those areas.

Older journalists remembered when the hub of the organisation was in New Inn Hall Street in Oxford – the paper and hot metal days, with no computers or mobile phones in sight.

Reporters would use old-fashioned typewriters to create their stories on paper. After editing and headlines added, printing staff would set the text in metal type.

Metal plates would then be fitted to the press and printing of the paper would begin.

Older readers will no doubt remember the succession of Oxford Mail vans emerging from the narrow Shoe Lane taking papers to newsagents and other outlets throughout Oxfordshire and what was then North Berkshire.

Eight daily editions of the Oxford Mail were published – the third edition arrived on the streets in Oxford at lunchtime, the fifth in mid-afternoon and the seventh and eighth – called the final and late final – in late afternoon. The other editions went to county areas.

Another feature of newspaper production in those days was the Sports Mail – popularly known as the Green Mail as it was printed on green paper. It was published on Saturday evenings and contained all the football results.

Readers would queue outside newsagents waiting for the paper to arrive. Before the present widespread coverage on TV, sports fans would not know the results of football matches.

The first in the queue would relay the results to those further back – to cheers and groans, however their favourite team had performed. Those were the days!