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• It seems that in Manchester a toilet cleaner earns

20th April 1989, Page 32
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more than an HGV 1 driver. One of the Hawk's readers has sent me a clipping from the Manchester Evening News. Wilbro Drivers Agency, based in the city, offers 23.30 per hour plus overtime for day work. Directly below, a meticulously clean 40-plus toilet attendant is wanted — at 23.30 an hour. Talk about wages going down the pan . .

• A group of six Conservative MPs, confusingly called the Red Route Group, are calling for a task force of elite traffic wardens with special powers to patrol London's streets. The troubleshooter traffic wardens, who would have the power to impose parking fines of 275, would patrol primary routes through the capital.

• Police in the West Midlands are so concerned about the environment that they are going lead-free. All new police vehicles bought by the force must now run on lead-free petrol, but more stringent still is the force's decision henceforth only to use lead-free bullets.