Shell Drivers' Job Threat By Ian Wylie • More Than

50 tanker drivers at the Shell Haven refinery in Essex face an uncertain future after the oil giant admitted it may shut the operation. Shell UK has begun to consult staff on a......

Road Deaths Level Out • The Number Of Road Accident

casualties rose by 2% last year compared with 1996, according to new figures from the Department of Transport, but the number of people seriously injured fell by 3%. Fatalities......

Haulier Denies Hours Scam • A Suffolk Haulier Forced Its

drivers to falsify their tachograph records to allow them to work over their permitted hours, Ipswich Crown Court heard last week. Gary Benham, who ran Scorpion Freight in......

First Road Pricing Trial Cuts Car Use • Leicester City

Council says its road pricing trial is a success, with many motorists supporting a move to tolls. About 60 car owners took part in the eight-month pilot— Britain's first.......

French Jail Another Brit For Smuggling • A Doncaster...

arrested in France last December has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined £1.5m for smuggling more than 500kg of cannabis. Arthur Shipley was returning from Barcelona......