kpple hi-jacking
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lIEVES uncoupled a 40ft flatbed trailer and stole it, complete th its load of apples valued at £4,000, last week.
l'he trailer, which belonged to a local owner-driver, was taken )m waste ground used as an overnight lorry park in uthampton, had been coupled up to its own tractive unit but thieves parently preferred to use their own and left the owner's iind.
['he load of 800 cases of apples was originally destined for eds in Yorkshire.
ERE WAS an apparent contradiction in terms between last day's editorial and the news story to which it referred on page ['his arose because paragraph 2 of the editorial was incomte. It should have read: 'Maximum-capacity outfits costing £12 an hour are regularly ayed for five hours at ports. A recent CM spot check at bury confirmed this. This is an expense which could be )ided by a pre-booking system such as the report proposes, 1;.ite the authors' financial reservations."