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COMPANY cars and British businesses will be at the forefront of a massive increase in the use of biofuels within the next five years, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has claimed.

VAUXHALL’S revised Meriva city car range, on sale early next year, will feature a hot VXR version.

THE police are pushing through plans to create a network of cameras that automatically recognise and check vehicle number plates.

NEARLY all of Bramall Contracts headquarters staff have been told they are to be made redundant on the Friday before Christmas.

FORD’S revised Fiesta and Fusion ranges go on sale next week, with prices starting at £8,395.

TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has launched a new electronic reminder for its congestion charge payment.

DAILY rental company Europcar has taken delivery of a new liveried van fleet as it re-brands its van rental business.

AUDI has announced prices for its huge Q7 SUV.

VEHICLE remarketing specialist Cars Direct has opened a new storage and distribution facility in Oxfordshire.

BRITAIN’S motorway network is the most congested in Europe despite drivers paying the highest fuel taxes, a new report claims.

THE Saab BioPower, a flex-fuel car which runs on petrol or bio-ethanol is now available to order in the UK.

THE funeral division of the United Co-operatives Society has ordered 56 specially adapted Vauxhall Vectra Estates for use as funeral vehicles.

THE Government has been accused of inconsistency over grants for environmentally-friendly vehicles.

PEUGEOT has added a new Verve version to its 206 SW line-up.

FLEETS can pre-order copies of the Sewells Contract Hire survey, which is set to be published early next year.

AVIS Rent a Car is offering satellite TomTom navigation units for hire with its cars.

AVERAGE fuel prices in the UK.

DAIMLERCHRYSLER Services Fleet Management is offering its customers the euroShell Fleet Card.

FLEETS could be saved hours of time consuming work if plans to introduce three-year tax discs are brought in by the Department for Transport.

LONG driver hours and resultant fatigue is the number one concern of fleets, according to the results of a new survey.

VOLKSWAGEN has introduced a new top-of-the-range Passat model, powered by a 3.2-litre V6 engine producing 247bhp.

COMPANY car driver complacency is costing business and the fleet industry a fortune in fines and administration.

LETTERS to Fleet News’ acting editor Steve Moody.

FLEET NewsNet looks at how new cars taken on to a typical fleet might perform over the next three years/60,000 miles.

AN increasingly selective approach from buyers is hitting the market for used small and car-derived vans.

RESULTS from sales across the UK.

The UK’s largest dealer group, Pendragon plc, has made an approach to buy its third placed rival Reg Vardy plc.

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