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• Stobart Group's Biomass division has won a 15-year contract with Western Bioenergy to supply 150,000 tonnes of biomass a year to its plant in Port Talbot, Wales. Stobart has invested an £800,000 equity and debt stake in the project, alongside Greensphere Capital, which owns Western Bioenergy.
• Controlled-temperature specialist Langdons has changed its name to Nagel Langdons. The Bridgwater, Somerset-based firm has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nagel Group in Germany since 2004. It will apply the new livery to new trucks and trailers as they join the 270-strong fleet, but will not retrofit existing vehicles.
• LGVs accounted for 10.2% of vehicles involved in fatal road accidents in 2012, up from 8.4% the previous year, according to the Department for Transport. Out of the 2,850 vehicles involved in fatalities in Britain last year, 292 were LGVs, compared with 272 LGVs out of 3,221 vehicles in 2011.