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through the Runcorn area a couple of weeks ago will be interested to hear that their sufferings were caused by a toxic gas leak from ICI's Rocksavage works. The Hawk would like to suggest that drivers regularly venturing along that particular stretch of the M56 might do well to keep a packet of Hacks in the cab. • If Bob Tarr, West Midlands head of public transport, ever loses his 245,000-a-year post, he can always fall back on a newly-acquired skill — bus driving.
Tarr passed the public service vehicle test in a doubledecker after a course of 280-aday lessons at West Midland Travel's Perry Bar centre. He said he felt he ought to know what it was like "at the sharp end of driving a bus".
Guess he wouldn't be so interested in the sharp end of a bus driver's wage. . .