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• Glenys Kinnock, wife of EU Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock, was stopped by police on the MA lost week with an out-of-date tax disc.
• From next summer police could have the power to run random breath tests.
• The North Wales Economic Forum is to lobby European transport ministers for grants to move lorries using the A55 on to trains
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• F-,1 gistics has won a £20m contract to run furnishings retailer Ikea's first UK distribution centre.
• Danneke Neale of the Drr.,er's Family Help Line is appealing for funding to allow the wife of imprisoned driver John Mills to visit him in his Bulgarian jail. Contact Neale on 01723 351425.
• The Low Pay Commission may be set to recommend that the introduction of the national minimum wage should be staged so its impact can be monitored.
• P&O has bought the container shipping business of Blue Star Line and its subsidiaries for E60rn.
• Montracon has won a Urn contract to supply 256 tandem-axle trailers to Rover Group, starting in December.
• Truck driver Sti. r Morgan, who murdered teenage French hitchhiker Celine Figard, has been refused leave to appeal.
• The European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee has backed a proposal to bring in digital tachographs on 1 July 2000.