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• Parcelforce has secured a £45m contract renewal with
elecom to deliver almost two million telephone directories a year.
• Drivers of now defunct
Fewsto i of Skipton have told Newcastle Crown Court that Eric Preston, transport manager at the time of the Sowerioy bridge lorry crash in 1993, was professionally respected and they were satisfied vehicles were properly maintained. Preston'snansloughter trial continues.
Eamon Scanlon, trading as Middlesex-based Scanlon Transport, has had his 0-licence for failing to keep proper tocho records.
GE Capital Services company Key Lease is to fund the purchase of 45 new vehicles for Liverpool dockers ended their dispute with the _
-,-Ipany by
accepting £28,000 redundancy payments first offered in 1996.
Sir Alastair Morton, former boss of Eurotunnel, has been named as an adviser on the deputy PM John Prescott.
• The Government has launched a hotlir, for small and medium sized companies to help tackle the millennium computer problem. Contact: 0845 601 2000.
• TNT is offering a £5,000 reward for information about a hijacked lorry containing £1m of electronic goods. Three men have already been arrested.
More than 100 Consolidated Land Services driyers at steel plants in Scunthorpe, Hartlepool, Rotherham and South Wales will strike on 2 February over a pay claim.