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• Cafe and truckstop owners Jenny and Peter Hawes will find out this week if they have won the right to continue operating on a DOT-owned layby off the A47 in Guyhirn, following a five-day trial at Cambridge County Court. Judge Sennift delayed his decision on the DOT's repossession order until 10:00hrs Friday (26 April).
• Tesco is to create 4,000 jobs, some of them for drivers, by opening 24 stores this year.
• The cost to the taxpayer of the security operation for the A34 Newbury Bypass is to be nearly E6m.
• Transport companies are to face the toughest I 2 months since the end of the recession, a report of 500,000 British companies predicts. Research group CCN says more than 25% of companies are now at a critical risk of going under.
• Freightspeed the air freight and forwarding company, is to create 12 driving and warehousing jobs by expanding its new £500,000 Scottish depot at Glasgow Airport. It will handle the Firm's northern market.
• Two UK companies have won coveted Queens Awards for exports of meat they can no longer sell abroad Associated Beef Processors and Eurostock Meat Marketing received the awards days after the EU refused to lift the ban on British beef.