Courtesy firm fined
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• A High Court direction ha led to the operator of a free courtesy service to Manchester Airport being fined 245 by the city's magistrates for usin a vehicle without a PSV operator's licence and for employing a driver who was not the holder of a PSV driving licence.
In February 1985, the magistrates acquitted Robert Hankinson, trading as Skyway Parking of Styal, Cheshire, of the two offences on the grounds that he had taken all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offences.
The magistrates' decision was appealed by the North Western Traffic Commissioners. Lord Justice Watkins ruled that Hankinson was not entitled to the statutory defence that he had taken all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence. (CM, March 1) Hankinson was fined 230 fo having no PSV operator's licence and 225 for employing driver without a psv driving licence.
• West Midlands PTE's six Leyland Lynx single-deck city buses have gone into service in Wolverhampton.
The Workington-built Lynxes, which have Leyland's compact Hydracyclic gearboxes, are being used alongside six Alexander-bodied Volvo Citybuses (CM, March 22) on double-deck routes.