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Tanker Wreck Clears Three Villages
• Emergency authorities were this week trying to find out how two road tank trailers containing poisonous gas were washed ashore off Norfolk, causing the evacuation of three......
Sulphur Cut
• The European Commission has given the go-ahead to proposals to cut the sulphur content of dery to 0.2% by October 1994 and 0.5% two years later.......
Trade Jump • Trade Between Community Countries Is Set To
rise by 40% by the year 2000 — "an enormous increase when one considers the current saturation on our roads", according to Luxemburg's transport minister. He says taxation......
Making Tracks
• Standardisation of road-rail equipment throughout Europe has been called for in a report to Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert.......
Bus Operators Make Millions
• Owners of newly privatised bus companies have made millions of pounds by selling off bus stations and garages for shopping developments, says a new Government report. The......
Police Tackle Artic Accident
• Police are investigating a truck crash that left 10 people hurt in the centre of a busy market town last week. Police say the brakes on owner-driver Tim Burns' Leyland Daf......
Academics Call For Higher Truck Tax
• Hauliers should pay up to 55% more on vehicle excise duty to cover the damage their trucks cause to the environment, say researchers at Leeds University. In a report just......