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Sunday, 12 October 2014

BBC News

• Volunteer drivers wanted for trial shuttle serviceA shuttle service across three Jersey parishes could be trialled if enough volunteer drivers are found.
• JFK airport screening for Ebola: 'We can't get the risk to zero'New York's JFK airport has started a health screening programme to try and stem the Ebola outbreak.
• AUDIO: Rab C helps promote 'talking buses'A campaign to have buses across the UK fitted with audio visual technology gets some celebrity backing as part of Guide Dogs Week.
• Brown welcomes Scots-Asian support for SNP deputy bidTransport minister Keith Brown has welcomed the support of two high-profile Scots-Asians for his bid to become deputy leader of the SNP.

The Guardian

• New York airport is first in US to screen passengers for Ebola symptomsThermal guns take temperature of travellers CDC spokesman: ‘We can’t get the risk to zero’
• Richard Bransons domestic airline dream dies, but BA rivalry lives onVirgin Atlantic lost a skirmish at home, but the war with British Airways over the Atlantic continuesStanding in a brand new British Airways A380, at an altitude of 35,000ft over the Atlantic, Willie Walsh couldnt resist having a dig at an old rival. Sir Richard Bransons Virgin Atlantic airline had, he said, made a bad mistake launching a domestic service from Heathrow. Its looking terrible. The fact is they are struggling you cant make money flying planes that are less than half full. I said it would be a mistake and am delighted to be proven correct.A few days later, last Monday, those wor...
• How Dutch and German train and bus firms are taking UK taxpayers for a rideThe UK government has poured money into transport infrastructure. And thanks to privatisation, state-owned European bus and rail operators reap the benefitsJames Meeks book on the privatisation of Britain, Private Island, highlights the perverse outcome of an energy industry sell-off that saw vast tracts of our power infrastructure fall under the ownership of the French government-owned EDF. France in effect renationalised the industry its neighbour had so painstakingly privatised. Renationalised it, that is, for France, he writes.If privatisation was designed to introduce the rigor and effici...

The Telegraph

• Dangerous mollusc found near Heathrow AirportExperts warn the Quagga mussels threaten to kill wildlife, block water pipes and cause flooding

Daily Express

• CARMAGEDDON: Passport check for all Channel passengers would 'SHUT THE COUNTRY DOWN'PLANS to guarantee a passport check for every passenger leaving Britain were thrown into chaos last night after cross-Channel operators revealed government scheme would cause traffic mayhem and “essentially shut the country downâ€�.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Pont Briwet road bridge opening delayed yet againVital road bridge won't open before next June as contractors fail to meet finish date

Northern Echo

• One-way traffic proposal considered for Darlington shopping street A ONE-way system is among the changes that could be made to Darlington’s Duke Street following a series of meetings between traders and councillors.

Yorkshire Post

• Railway will be travelling back in time againTHE clocks will be turned back to the 1940s as part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s annual ‘Railway in Wartime’ weekend.

Blackpool Gazette

• MP joins fight to save BAE Systems jobsFylde MP Mark Menzies today said he would work closely with BAE Systems’ management in a bid to save jobs in Warton.

Burnley Express

• Taxi firm owner fined for cutting cornersA taxi firm owner has been fined by magistrates for keeping a poor record in his operator book.

Doncaster Free Press

• Have your say on how region’s railways are policedRail passengers and staff across the region are being given the chance to have their say on the way the county’s railways are policed.

Other Regional Press

• Middlesbrough taxi driver urges Government to change laws regarding drivers following grooming reportRasub Afzal and Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald want to make minibus drivers undergo the same criminal checks as taxi drivers

Aviation Industry

• Passenger indicted in dispute over reclined seatAn airline passenger who became upset after a woman reclined the seat in front of him, causing the pilot to divert the plane, has been indicted on a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew. Edmond Alexandre began to argue with other passengers over the reclined seat on the Aug. 27 flight from Miami to Paris, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Other News Sources

• Redhill airport plans thrown out of High CourtThree judges back the councils as plans to expand Redhill Aerodrome hit another block in the ongoing saga