M.P.s ALARMED OVER EASTER ROAD CASUALTIES
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1-3. A LAR MED by the Easter roadcasualty figures, which are expected to total about 100 killed and 4,000 injured, M,P.s will have an opportunity to press for new safety measures when a Bill, sponsored by Mr. Graham Page (Cons., Crosby) is debated in the House of Commons next Friday.
Its most controversial feature concerns the introduction of compulsory blood tests to determine alcohol content in the bloodstream. Other proposals include the appointment of a new force of roadsafety officers, specific penalties for turning right without warning and overtaking at pedestrian crossings.
COURSE FOR DIRECTORS
I-1 A COURSE on the Common Market and the Commonwealth. for business executives at director level, will be held by the Federal Trust for Education and Research at the St. Ermins Hotel; Caxton Street, London, S.W.1. From May 4-6. The fee will be £15 15s.
NEW LINK WITH SHEPPEY
PAA NEW lifting bridge providing the only road and rail link between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kent mainland was opened on Wednesday. With almost three miles of approach roads, it cost nearly Wm. It carries a single-track railway and a 24-ft. carriageway.
PLYMOUTH APPOINTMENT
THEposition of deputy general manager of Plymouth Transport Department has been filled by Mr. W. F. Baron, who has been traffic superintendent of the Huddersfield undertaking for the past two years.