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• PHH Vehicle Management has launched a low-sulphur diesel hotline to identify sites around the UK.
Contact: 0800 018 7767.
• A man died and a baby was seriously injured after an artic crashed through the central reservation on the A42 at Worthington, Leics.
• Icri_ _ t:, who retired in 1993 from his post as fleet marketing manager of Seddon Atkinson Vehicles, has died, aged 63.
• Roadchef has bought Blue Boar and Take a Break for £80m to become the UK's third largest M5A operator.
• H I. is to open the UK's first major hub depot with automated handling for parcels and palletised freight.
• A family cheated death on 3 August after a at iverless 17-tonner smashed into their living room in Bristol while they were watching television.
A :lobile fuel station constructed for use in rural Scotland has been unveiled. It con hold up to 20,000 gallons of fuel.
• Scania orders in Western Europe rose 20% in the first half of the year, but its market share fell 0.2% to 1 5.2%.
The CBI warns that the UK's slide into -ecession is quickening, with middleranking manufacturers suffer ing the fastest fall in export orders for 18 years.
• Lord Williams of Mostyn has admitted in a written answer to the House of Lords that it is not practicable to issue fixed penalty notices to foreign drivers who are detected by speed cameras.