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Tuesday, 12 August 2014

BBC News

• Bumper summer for airports continuesScotland's airports are continuing to enjoy a bumper summer, following another surge in passenger numbers.
• Child in buggy blown on to Tube lineA child is rescued after a gust of winds blows a buggy on to Tube tracks at a London Underground station, narrowly avoiding an oncoming train.
• Gatwick and Heathrow see July recordThe debate over expanding the UK's air capacity has heated up after record passenger numbers at both Heathrow and Gatwick airports in July.
• Jaguar Land Rover boosts Tata profitTata Motors reports a big jump in profits thanks to strong sales at its Jaguar Land Rover business.

The Guardian

• Can't afford to fly in a luxury jet? How empty-legs deals make it possibleAfter flying their super-rich customers off to exclusive haunts, private charter firms have found a way to earn extra money on the otherwise empty return journeysUnless you are a rock star, billionaire business magnate or Guardian freelancer, you can probably only dream of travelling by private jet, and so your experiences of flying will no doubt involve brutal early-morning check-ins, the enforced surrendering of toiletries to scowling customs officers and always, always, always delays. But there is another way, one that also happens to be substantially better in every detail. Basica...
• Baby in buggy blown on to London underground tracks videoCCTV footage shows the moment a baby's buggy runs on to the tracks at London's Goodge Street underground station. British Transport police released video of the buggy being blown out of a pedestrian cross-tunnel by the wind as a train passes, falling down on to the track an instant afterwards. The buggy misses the train and is retrieved by a woman who jumps down on to the rails. Police said they were seeking to identify the child and its parents 'to ensure the child wasn't injured' Continue reading...

The Herald

• Roof jump causes commuter chaosCOMMUTERS in Edinburgh faced rush hour chaos after a man jumped on to the roof of Waverley station.

The Independent

• CCTV images shows terrifying moment child in buggy is blown onto Tube tracks by gust of wind Police have released CCTV images showing the moment a child in a buggy on a London Underground platform was blown onto the track by a gust of wind.

Mail Online

• Terrifying moment a toddler in a pushchair is sucked on to a live Tube track as a train heads into the station - and is rescued by its mother with just seconds to spare A man left the pushchair at the bottom of the stairs at Goodge Street station in north London as he walked up to help other members of the family.

This is Money

• Jaguar speeds to £1bn profits and helps Tata treble earnings Sales of Jaguar, Land Rover and Range Rover luxury sports cars, limousines and 4x4s rose by 22 per cent to a total of 115,596 vehicles for the first three months.

Network Rail

• Latest phase of Lincolnshire rail upgrade completedThe latest work to upgrade the Great Northern Great Eastern (GNGE) line successfully finished early this morning
• West Coast main line reopens but passengers urged to check before they travel ahead of further closures in AugustThe West Coast main line reopened on time today (11 August) after Network Rail successfully completed the latest phase of upgrade work at Watford.
• New car park at Collingham stationA new 58-space car park has now been completed at Collingham station near Newark, Lincolnshire.

Bolton News

• Dale Haslam's train blog: Train travel not much fun TRAIN travel around my neck of the woods is not much fun at the moment.
• Bolton's poorest train users 'will suffer' due to fare changes BOLTON’S poorest train users will suffer as a result of “appallingâ€� train fare changes, passenger groups have warned.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• WATCH: Reopening Caernarfon to Bangor train line 'would be cheaper than £100m bypass'Ex-transport chief says revived network would draw in tourists and boost economy

Liverpool Echo

• Serco slumps to first half lossNew Serco boss Rupert Soames today outlined the scale of the challenge facing the scandal-hit outsourcing giant as it slumped to a first-half loss of £7.3m.

London Evening Standard

• I love London, says New York tourism boss who thinks Heathrow is better than JFK New York's new tourism boss has praised Heathrow Airport and said that London does a better job of welcoming visitors than the Big Apple.
• Business group shunning 'Boris Island' plan, says Mayor's office Boris Johnson's office today lashed out at London business chiefs who it claims are trying to sideline his proposal for a Thames Estuary airport.
• Battersea Power Station owner makes bid for new Crossrail 2 station The owner of Battersea Power Station has made an official bid for Crossrail 2 to serve the location.
• Pet show for British Airways' long-haul passengers Stressed-out passengers on British Airways' long-haul flights will soon be able to unwind by watching cute dogs and cats at play.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Nottingham Post published New terminal lounge for East Midlands Airport's customersArticle

Sheffield Star

• Doncaster level crossing closed over safety fearsA level crossing is to be closed down following reports of a number of near misses at the site.

Sheffield Telegraph

• SLIDESHOW: 1940s weekend at Crich Tramway MuseumCelebrations of the D Day Landings attracted the crowds to the Crich Tramway Museum at the weekend.

The York Press

• Man killed on East Coast mainline A MAN has been hit by a train and killed on the East Coast mainline.

Wales Online

• Have your say on plans for a new bus station in the centre of CardiffCardiff council is asking for the public's views on the options for a new central bus station

Yorkshire Post

• Child in buggy blown on tracksFrightening images of a child in a buggy being blown on to Tube tracks moments before a train arrived have been released by British Transport Police (BTP).

East Anglian Daily Times

• East Anglia: Heads should roll after the latest rail delays, says angry MP Ben GummerEngineering managers at Network Rail should pay for the latest delays with their jobs, Suffolk MP and member of the Great Eastern Rail Taskforce Ben Gummer has said.

Other Regional Press

• Bus cuts expose Tory hypocrisyEast Sussex County Council proposes draconian cuts to bus services to save a tiny fraction of the amount it has wasted on the environmentally disastrous Bexhill to Hastings link road.
• Three months of works will see A16 widened at Spalding’s Clay LakeWork will start this week on a scheme to widen the A16 near Clay Lake in Spalding in order to build a new right-hand turn lane.
• CAMPAIGN: Support us to retain a part of rural lifeI live in a small hamlet between the parishes of Deeping St James and Crowland. This was once described by a local resident as “the pimple on the bum of Deeping” but it is in fact more accurately described these days as “Deeping’s little beauty spot”.
• Blue light vehicles 'blocked' for daysA county councillor is on the warpath after blue light vehicles were denied their usual access to parts of Deeping St James during Network Rail’s level crossing works.
• Gatwick Airport's potential new departure route trial ends amid complaints of increase in noise in West Kent Gatwick Airport’s six-month trial of a potential new departure route, which saw many West Kent residents affected by an increase in overhead aircraft noise, has ended.
• Anger as bus routes and timings change in Lee-on-the-SolentMORE than 500 people have signed a petition against the changes to a bus route.

Aviation Industry

• Heathrow and Gatwick renew battle over new runwayAirports use record traffic figures to promote their cases for expansion

Other News Sources

• Mother rescues child in buggy blown onto Tube tracks - videoBoth mother and baby narrowly escape unscathed after a gust of wind blew the child's buggy onto London Underground tracks. The mother dashed off the platform to grab the child and get back to safety.