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• Irish Ferries' parent Irish Continental Group has joined forces with other parties in a bid to save troubled shipping company Bell Lines. The plan was presented to Dublin's High Court this week.
• Speculation that the Road Haulage Association and Freight Transport Association may merge has been fuelled by FTA president Lawrence Christiansen who says he would welcome muck closer collaboration.
• Ford workers at the heart of the racism row say they will never return to the Transport and General Workers Union even if it means having no union. They are unhappy about the way the TGWU handled the situation and they moved to the United Road Transport Union at the beginning of the year.
• Traffic examiners say that following a meeting the Vehicle Inspectorate is now "fully aware" of the strength of feeling that exists over the question of increased mileage allowances • Driver John 'cimes Kelleher of Wortley, Sheffield pleaded guilty at Canterbury Crown Court to worth of drugs into the UK.
• After six years former Edcrest chief executive Frank Farnworth has been awarded more than £250,000 in damages for wrongful dismissal and breach of contract.
* A test-case public inquiry into the financial standing of Sheffield-based LVH will be held in Leeds on 12 May following an RHA obiection to the company's licence application.