Car seat rule: 135 cm or age 12
UK law requires children to use a car seat until they are 135 cm tall or 12 years old, whichever comes first.
Snapshot · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
S12 EP46: Laura Smyth (The Return)
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Jun 12, 2026
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Laura's Tour: 'Born Aggy', Hammersmith Apollo & the Name That Came from the Back Row
At 36:35 · chapter starts 35:00
The conversation turns to Laura's upcoming 'Born Aggy' tour, which opens in late September and culminates in a Hammersmith Apollo headline on 7 November — nearly sold out. Rob asks if she's filming it, and Laura floats the idea of hiring the hosts' parents' GP as editor. The tour name came from a Southend work-in-progress gig: Laura introduced herself as 'just Aggy' and an audience member on the back row called Debbie immediately shot back 'Born Aggy' — and the title was settled instantly. Two young women next to Debbie turned out to be her daughters, horrified that she'd just declared herself their favourite child. Laura also plugs her podcast 'Shouldn't Laugh But', which she records with her friend Carmen and describes as finding really weird things to laugh at. The segment has an underlying tension about Laura needing to catch a 3:36 train from Euston to the Ricky May Comedy Festival in Droitwich, which starts to eat into interview time.
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