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French set Yasey's appeal date
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• John Vasey, the truck driver held in a French prison after .£2.5m of cannabis was found on-board his truck, will have his appeal hearing in Marseilles next week.
Vasey, owner of Houghton Le Spring-based JD Vasey Transport, was stopped by French Customs in Perpignan on 28 February on his way back from Spain.
His vehicle was searched and cannabis resin was found in shrink-wrapped pallets. The consignment note listed them as containing ceramic tiles that he had picked up from a regular Spanish client in Barcelona (CM 31Jul-6 Aug). His wife Emma, who has been forced to close the business, says: "John will appeal on 19 August, where he will see three independent judges. We are trying to get him bailed into the custody of a friend living in France, but we don't really know what is happening as we haven't received a letter from him for weeks.
'We are trying to do all we can to get him home and are holding another 'go-slow' convoy in support of the Blue Ribbon campaign for British truck drivers held in overseas prisons next Monday (18 August), on the Al from Washington Services down to London. We are then going to present our 2,500-strong petition for John's release to the French Embassy."