well this is what I am being given....rimington will have remembered the ropewalk clue and venue, I suppose.....

so the MET detectives programmed as 'ropo coop' by Inga and Helen weale.....robocops with a difference.....in their 'coop':

and mr cern in danger of being beheaded at LASSCO....

I can remember now...toddy had either lost it again or 'never had it in the first place'...he was to claim that mike weale was his longlost Spanish son.....

hence the pippa longstocking reference to Inga and Helen...along with the toddy and mike reference....toddy being 'mr almond'...he used bleached almonds to program that one in....and 'ben' - I am unclear as to why he was calling mike weale 'ben':

 

and the pub reference....does anybody refer to NUMBER 10 jokingly as 'the pub'.....'we going down the pub'....what sort of drinks cabinet do they have, there? or was it a 'pub nearby' to LASSCO....is that it?