Remember your mid teens? Chanced your arm and succeeded in getting yourself into a night club? No? What about forming a heavy metal band with a view to attracting girls? Still drawing a blank? Then the chances are that you're not a survivor of that most fearsome of British institutions in the nineteen seventies, the English secondary modern school. Read with incredulity how a time, a place and a country seemingly in terminal decline, conspired to produce Armour Plated, in this, the third and final part of the Telling Tales trilogy.