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Industry Research Association laboratories and proving ground in Nuneaton have called off their threatened strike action, following a new pay offer. The engineers, technicians, clerical and other staff who are members of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union, voted at a mass meeting to accept an increase of 6% backdated to July.
• Union leaders and management have been holding talks at refuse vehicle manufacturer Dennis Eagle this week in a bid to solve a pay and conditions dispute. Over 200 AEUW members walked out on Friday for 24 hours.
• Veronica Palmer has been appointed director general of the Bus and Coach Council. She was previously the parliamentary secretary for the Bewers' Society. Simon Newham has been named as the trade association's new president He is the managing director of Armchair Passenger Transport, in Brentford.
• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has been formally reconstituted for a further three years, with John Armstrong as chairman.
• Haulier Finn and Wheeler has won its appeal against a conviction by Barking magistrates for infringing the London lorry ban. The appeal, at Snaresbrook Crown Court last Friday, was based on the interpretation of the summons wording and the traffic management order. Richmond, the leading borough of the London Boroughs Transport Committee, is expected to appeal to the divisional court.
• Slim Borgudd has won the truck racing Superfinal in Jarama, Spain after pulling ahead of pole-position driver George Allen at the start to lead all the way.