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• BRS's 3,000 drivers are being recommended by the Transport and General Workers Union to accept the company's latest national pay offer. The offer comprises a £9.50 increase in basic weekly pay, a £1 increase in the nightly subsistence rate, a £2 increase in the Continental subsistence rate, and improved holiday entitlements. The TGWU's John Moore says the latest offer is: "Appropriate in the conditions that prevail in the industry." Drivers in the east of England have settled for an £8.50 across-the-board rise with the RHA.
• The Confederation of British Industry has called On the Government to cut corporation tax in the Budget to 25% and to spend more on roads — and on businesses to spend more on skills training.
• Traffic casualty figures in London fell by 3% in the first nine months in 1988, and to reduce them further the Dip plans to improve road markings and street lighting and to instal more anti-skid surfaces on trunk roads.
• In response to complaints of poor quality, telecommunications authority OFTEL plans to impose standards on cellular car phone services. The two UK vehicle phone operators, Racal-Vodaphone and Cellnet, will now publish regular quality-of-service statistics.
• Texaco plans to replace two-star petrol with unleaded fuel at its 1,400 UK filling stations — and aims to offer unleaded fuel at half its service stations by Budget day, 14 March.
• Waste transport specialist Leigh Interests has won a £2.5 million, five-year deal to collect rubbish from 35,000 households in Witney, Oxfordshire. Leigh has just bought Merseyside waste transportation firm Skipper (Business News, page 17).