Soviet aid • Labour leader Neil Kinnock has called on
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the West to offer transport and distribution expertise to the Soviet Union to prevent a winter famine.
Going north
• Kenning Services on the M5 northbound is to move to a new site near the M50 junction which will offer extensive lorry parking, according to the developer Wimpey. Work is due to be finished by September 1992.
Reg Brown
• Reg BOW11, who set up the FTA's vehicle inspection service, has died. He left the FTA in 1976 after 31 years with it and its predecessor, the TRTA.
Parker's eight in Leeds-based operator Frank Parker has taken delivery of eight J-reg S140 Renault Midliners from contract leasing firm Comet Vehicle Contracts. Bodies are by Air Truck Bodies of Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire.
Bottoming out I The recession is now bottoming out and there will be a slight upturn in economic activity by the end of the year, according to the Confederation of British Industry's latest forecast. It predicts a significant recovery will take place in 1992, with strong growth in the second half of the year.