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• Transport Select Committee MPs visited Sainsbury's Charlton depot in south-east London last week to see how the food giant organises its distribution. According to Sainsbury's David Quarmby: "We outlined our view that the problems of London traffic cannot be solved in a piecemeal fashion by the 33 London boroughs."
• Top geologist Dr Richard Haworth has warned that the Channel Tunnel is being built through an earthquake zone and he is calling for a 22 million seismic monitoring network to be set up.
• Buses are replacing ambulances to carry 830,000 patients a year to hospital. Go-Ahead Northern minibus drivers in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland will collect patients following a deal with the Northern regional health authority, which hopes to save 80,000 a year.
• The Institute of the Motor Industry is to canvass members' views on a proposal to licence garage mechanics and engineers.
• The Government expects to receive a report from British Rail within the next month on how it proposes to handle freight and customs clearance once the Chunnel comes into operation in 1993.
• Following the Herald of of Free Enterprise disaster ; EC Transport (Witnbourne) was said to have been responsible for several drums of harzadous chemicals which exploded on a beach near Zeebrugge, injuring some Belgian salvage workers. They were from a truck owned by another haulage company, it claims.