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• West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh ruled that complaints about vehicles using a narrow lane were a matter for the Highway Authority — not a Licensing Authority — when he renewed the licence held by Christopher Mason, trading as Mason Potatoes of Cross Keys, Hereford. Mason had applied to increase the vehicles authorised on his licence from three to five, but there was an objection from a Colonel C H Rose who said that access to the operating centre was along a very narrow country lane which was only about 4m wide outside his property. He agreed that Mason's business had been there when he moved in 51/2 years ago but claimed it was hardly noticeable then. He felt it would be more conveniently based on an industrial estate.
IN Oldham haulier Walter Heatley, who failed to appear at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry, has had his licence revoked by North Western Deputy Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall. Heatley, trading as Heatley Transport of Oldham, held a national licence for one vehicle and two trailers in possession with three vehicles to be acquired.
Birchall said that Heatley had been declared bankrupt on 8 August last year.