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• British Aerospace is negotiating with the Government and the Rover Group to buy the stateowned company, Trade and Industry Secretary Lord Young announced on Tuesday. BA has been given until the end of next month to complete the negotiations. If they break down, the Government, which owns 90% of Rover Group shares, will look at other options for returning the group to the private sector.
• Industry will have to pay twice for new roads if the Government introduces tolls warns Freight Transport Association secretary John Morris. Morris told East Midlands members: "We are facing the challenge of private finance . . . the Government seems set on introducing some form of tolled system for our roads."
• A lorry driver hero who saved three lives, in the M6 disaster two years ago has been awarded the Queen's Commendation for bravery. James Smith, 38, dubbed "superman" by fellow drivers, pulled three people from a blazing coach in what was one of Britain's worst motorway crashes. Smith ran into the coach three times to save passengers.
• The hard left has won control of the Transport and General Workers' Union, which represents 130,000 of Britain's lorry drivers and transport staff. Voting for the union's controlling executive took place last week.
• Perkins Engines has dropped its plans to transfer the assembly, production and testing of Gardner sixcylinder engines from Gardner's Patricroft, Manchester, plant to Bus Engineering in Chiswick, the vehicle engineering company owned by Frontsource (CM 30 July-5 August 1987).