Chunnel delay
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• The Channel Tunnel's opening, which was scheduled for mid-Summer, has been delayed until next year because of a row between Eurotunnel and its contractor TML.
Overnight arson
• Thirty -year-old truck driver Steve Barlow escaped death when his truck was set on fire while parked in a layby near the Crown Avenue Industrial Estate at Tredegar, South Wales.
Sussex check
• One of the 65 vehicles stopped in a multi-agency check at St Johns Cross on the A21, East Sussex was given an immediate prohibition. Four others received delayed prohibitions.
Texaco picket Texaco's headquarters at Canary Wharf, London were picketed by protestors angry at the firm's five-year-old policy of screening job applicants for HIV.
Training needs
An umbrella body is needed to co-ordinate the training needs of the freight logistics industry, according to a report from the independent Faculty of Freight.
Strike threat
• The threat of a strike over rate cuts at Archbold Freightage has moved closer with management's refusal to meet the union that is representing 40 protesting owner-drivers.
Curtains up
II Thieves are targeting eurtainsiders in laybys and service areas on the A74 between Carlisle and Glasgow: more than 60 trailers have been attacked with £55,000 worth of cargoes stolen.