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LA investigates Seagull
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• Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh is considering suspending Seagull Foods ninevehicle licence because he thinks that West Midlands Deputy Licensing Authority Roger Seymour may have been hoodwinked by the Redditch-based company at disciplinary proceedings in April 1989.
The company has twice failed to appear at public inquiries arranged since then (CM 19-25 October and 14-20 December 1989). In April 1989 the DLA had considered a string of convictions for overloading and drivers' hours and records offences (CM 11-17 May 1989). Mervyn Pugh understood that there had since been further convictions.
Director Robert Constantine said that Seagull had been convicted of an' axle overload and a number of drivers' hours and tachograph offences at Rosson-Wye 11 days after the public inquiry before the DLA. Constantine said that it had been wrongly assumed that the DLA would be aware of them.
Adjourning the hearing so that an explanation can be obtained from the company's solicitor, Mervyn Pugh said he was considering suspending the licence for a period of time.
Either there had been a deliberate attempt to hoodwink the DLA or, on legal advice, it had been thought better not to mention the pending prosecutions. Which ever was right, it was a very serious matter. Second time lucky II Stephen and Susan Hoiling-worth, trading as Otterspool Travel and Day Nursery, of Liverpool, have been granted a PSV Operator's Licence at the second attempt before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Kenneth Birchall, subject to satisfactory information being received from their bankers.
Stephen Hollingsworth was previously the principal director of the failed Stephen Anthony Coaches, Main Fleet, Lawrensons Travel and Lawrensons Coaches.