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• County engineers have told Dorset County Council that it must decide now whether to strengthen the Poole harbour bridge or close it off from heavy truck traffic permanently.
• Kent truck driver John Jones has been relep -d from a Moroccan jail after being held for two years for alleged c. cg smuggling. A royal pardon released the 52-year-old from his fiveyear sentence.
• A driver who took part in stealing his tl 31,000 lorry load of whisky failed to win leave to appeal against his Iwo-year prison sentence. The 29-year-old , Vaughan Sumner, of Bankville Road, Tranmere was jailed last May.
• Christopher Pywell joins ANC as finance director and replaces Tim Sutton who resigned last year amid speculation that he was part of a takeover bid.
• Roadexpress managing director Eddie Reubens has led a buyout for the assets of the courier's maintenance business in Coventry. Administrators were called into the commercial vehicle and car repairer and Roadexpress last August.
• Walsall-based parcels network NCN has opened a franchise at North Shields with directors of Tyne & Wear-based haulier Team Hawk, John Davidson and George Marshall, and former Fasson European logistics manager Gordon Carr.
• Cheshire County Council has appealed against a court ruling that hauliers can carry material in some circumstances without the waste transfer note required by the Environmental Protection Act. (CM 4-10 Nov 19931.