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hadow Transport Secretary John Prescott was on rollicking good form during a knockabout speech at last week's Labour Pary conference in Blackpool.
Referring to an advert placed by the Government for bosses to head deregulated public transport companies, he got ironic cheers when he pointed out that the advertisement included the phrase: "No previous experience of public transport necessary," Sounds just the job for some of our recently departed ex-Transport secretaries.
Nrawley Job Centre has taken to the road to cater for areas of high unemployment in the formerly prosperous Sussex and Surrey commuter belt.
The mobile Job Centre is based on an Iveco Ford Cargo 75E15 supplied by Furrows Commercial Vehicles of Telford with a body built by its neighbour Torton Bodies. The unit has a fax, phones, video, kitchen and toilet. What it cannot offer is enough jobs — but at least one less driver is out of work.