Tunnel freight threat grows

By 2002-03-01T11:00:00

A FUTILE gesture, doubtless intended to help SNCF and English Welsh & Scottish Railway cope with strangulation of international freight operations through the Channel Tunnel, saw British Home Secretary David Blunkett lift the £2000 fines imposed from March 1 2001 for each illegal immigrant reaching England on a freight train. ...

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