Dip updates danger regs
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• The rules for transporting explosives by road are to be up-dated in the summer says junior transport minister Peter Bottomley.
&Burnley told MPs that new Road Traffic (Carriage of Explosives) Regulations would provide up-to-date and coordinated controls covering all aspects of the moving of explosives by road, including the transport of ammunition. The rules would deal with such matters the marking of vehicles on people who have been drinking being in any vehicle carrying explosives.
His announcement came in response to questicos by Labour front bencher Paul Flynn who has called for improved security for the transport of ammunition, particularly from the Iffi military base at RAF Caerwent in Wales. His concern arose after a lorry driver was convicted by Chepstow maystrates for drink-driving at the end of last
Labour's junior Welsh spokesman. said he feared the risk of an accident had increased ever since the movement of ammunition from Caerwent had been contracted out to a local commercial taulage firrn with