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• IVR Recovery Camp 2012

  The IVR is holding the UK’s first ‘Recovery Camp’, to be held in Leicestershire from 18th to 23rd March. The five day/night advanced training event will give experienced recovery operators the opportunity to achieve ‘IVR Master Recovery Technician’ status, at bronze, si ...

  
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• My Hero

  I cannot possibly allow the opportunity to pass without offering some support for a man who has inspired me.  I refer of course to Jeremy Clarkson who is no fool and knows how to get a point over: something our Recovery Industry is lacking. Not only was he right to draw attention to idle Public ...

  
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• Green Flag Today: RAC Tomorrow

  Sometime I think I must be alone in this world whenever I pick up a newspaper or look at the television news.  Not only is it apparent to anybody with half a brain or even just a quarter, that the world, apart from becoming an awful place, is riddled with a greater than ever degree of straightf ...

  
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• Political Qualifications

  I have had to rather hurry this month’s writing because it is now over two weeks since the horrible motorway pile-up on the M5 and despite 48 hours of intensive television it is now almost forgotten about and in another week’s time it will be well gone.  There must be irony there so ...

  
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• Vehicle recovery operators call for special dispensation as London low emission zone rules tighten

  Vehicle recovery organisations are calling for a special dispensation from tougher London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) regulations to enable specialist breakdown trucks to continue to operate and keep traffic congestion to a minimum, particularly during next year’s Olympic Games. Organisations belo ...

  
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