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• The Government should abandon its demoralising policy for forcing BL to get rid of troublesome subsidiaries and sell off profitable ones, argues a Guardian Leader. It concludes: Even if the Government can't bring itself to help BL, it should at least cease to put obstacles in the way of our only indigenous motor manufacturer of any size. That would be a strategy of sorts. The Guardian, June 27.
NIThe European-wide road freight industry has to be perceive o as a caring and compassionate industry, nof one that is simply out to make money at everyone's expense. The environmental lobby is growing fast in Europe. And if road transport is not to fall foul of it, we will have to tread very carefully. Motor Transport, June 12. • Myopia has never served the Scottish rail network well. Look what happened to the Paddy line through Galway. After it was held to be insupportable we joined the EEC and the A75 became the busiest juggernaut route in Scotland, producing the volumes of traffic which would have made the railway a fortune. Glasgow Herald, June 16.
• No one should take any comfort from the fact that Pickfords have taken something of a pasting in front of the nation's television views these last couple of months, says the journal of the British Association of Removers, asking:
How long is it before some consumer reporter with an eye to self glorification rather than objectivity decides to take the lid off the removals industry? And what is he or she going to find? Removals and Storage, ,'June edition.