Tough Winter • Removals Firms Are Facing Their Toughest...

this century, says the 650-member British Association of Removers. Companies are being hit by the double blow of a collapsed housing market and soaring warehouse rents.......

Talking Green • The Eta Is Among Several Groups Taking

part in an environmental forum in Manchester on 24 September. The forum — which will assess the environmental implications of local authority policy — is being organised by......

Howard Declines • Employment Secretary Michael Howard Has...

intervene in the dispute at trailer maker Craven Tasker's Cumbernauld factory where the striking workforce has been dismissed (CM 1-7 Aug). Cumbernatdd MP Norman Hogg was told......

Drivers' Claim • The Tgwu Is Holding A Conference On

9 October in London to set a national pay claim for drivers.......

Highland Fling • Scottish Bus Group Subsidiary Highland...

has been sold to the Clansman Travel & Leisure and Rapson's Coaches consortium.......

Tuc To Join Breath Test Lobbying

• The Trades Union Congress is set to add its weight to a campaign to ban police from breathtesting truck drivers sleeping in their cabs. The United Road Transport Union is to......

Panic-free Panic Link

• Parcels carrier Panic Link says it has suffered no downturn in business since the jailing of its chairman, Eric Norman, for causing death by reckless driving (CM 1-7 Aug).......

Oil Prices Move In Soviet Crisis

• Dery prices could rise by as much as lp per litre by the end of the week because of the Soviet crisis, says fuel analyst Oil Price Assessment. But the five biggest oil......

Meat Trucks Set On Fire

• Nine trucks were set ablaze at two Lancashire-based meat firms last weekend in what is believed to be the latest of a series of arson attacks by animal rights fanatics. The......