A GRAND NIGHT(
26th October 2000, Page 22
26th October 2000
Page 22

Page 22, 26th October 2000
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Glasgow's Posthouse Hotel played host to the RHA's Scotland & Northern Ireland Region for its annual night on the town. It was an opportunity for new regional chairman Val Smith, general manager of Bondelivery, Belfast, to make her mark in a rousing speech in which she repeatedly thumped the lectern to make her point. Val told members that hauliers are "over-taxed and under-valued"—a sentiment that was roundly applauded by her listeners. She added that "the absence of many well-known faces was a reflection on the state of the industry". But it wasn't all gloom and doom. Guest speaker Rob Glen, exgovernor of Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison, is