DISGRUNTLED husband Richard Walker is driving home his distaste for his estranged wife.

The pensioner says he bought the personalised registration number -

H8 HER - after his wife of 30 years walked out.

Mr Walker, a 70-year-old retired oil tanker skipper, said: "The registration tells the whole world how I feel."

He paid £285 for the plate to spite his wife, mother of their two grown-up daughters.

"People are always asking me if I really do hate her - and I reply that I certainly do," said Mr Walker, of Morpeth, Northumberland.