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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

BBC News

• Summer Tube delays fall by 20%Delays on London's Underground network during the summer months fell by 20% compared to 2013, Transport for London reveals.
• Heathrow to start screening for EbolaBorder staff at Heathrow airport are to start screening passengers flying into the UK for possible symptoms of Ebola.

Financial Times

• CSX/Canadian Pacific: railway to heavenBoth railroads have gone through turnrounds
• London’s $8.5bn traffic jamDamage to economy, particularly in London, rising faster than in France, US and Germany
• HS2 contest for £10bn in contracts beginsCompanies battle for deals on world’s most expensive railway
• Osborne aims for pre-poll sale of EurostarChancellor hopes to raise sum in low hundreds of millions to help lower public debt
• Petrobras holding back Brazil’s airlinesState-controlled oil group’s jet fuel pricing policy under fire from industry

The Guardian

• BlaBlaCar: the car-sharing website that gets you to Paris for under £33Drivers arent allowed to profit from BlaBlaCar, which has really taken off in Europe. Colourful characters thrown in for freeBy the time we arrive in Paris, it is nearly midnight. Alain rolls open the sliding door of his enormous yellow van, Amanda and I stumble out and the three of us fling our arms around each other amid promises of imminent reunion. Amanda burrows into her rucksack and fishes out a pair of novelty Bob Marley socks. These she presents, quite solemnly, to Alain, who is visibly moved. We part, laughing sadly like old friends.Only were not old friends. We met for the first time...
• UK to start fever tests for Ebola at Heathrow airportNew measure comes as health secretary Jeremy Hunt says it is likely that virus will be diagnosed in UK by end of yearPassengers will have their temperatures tested for suspected Ebola at Heathrow terminal one from Tuesday but it will be impossible to check all the 1,000 people a month arriving from the worst affected countries, the UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted.Hunt said it was likely that Ebola would be diagnosed in the UK by the end of the year but the best estimates suggested there would probably be less than 10 cases over the next three months. Continue reading...

The Herald

• Ebola screening at Heathrow is UK's first line of defenceAIRLINE passengers will be subject to enhanced screening for Ebola at Britain's biggest airport from today as UK ministers insisted
• Waverley station pays tribute to Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley at the railway station named in the novel's honour.

The Independent

• Window shatters as Tube train travels on London's Piccadilly Line A window on a Tube train shattered in London on Monday, leaving one passenger screaming in terror as glass flew through the carriage.

The Scotsman

• Waverley Station to mark Scott novel’s bicentenaryIT IS the novel that gave Edinburgh’s largest rail station its name and now looks set to inspire weary commuters with a few well chosen quotations.

The Telegraph

• Worst mobile networks for London rail commuters revealedEE is the worst mobile network for 3G on the main commuter routes into London, while O2 is worst for 4G
• Ebola crisis: 'huge disruption' expected at Heathrow as screening beginsExperts have warned that enhanced screening is unlikely to stop Ebola arriving in Britain and will bring 'huge disruption' to travellers

Mail Online

• UK could see 10 ebola cases by Christmas: Hunt's warning as Heathrow screening starts today  As the death toll in West Africa passed 4,000, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that screening for ebola will begin at London Heathrow Airport today. 
• Heart risk for the women who live near busy roads: Air pollution increases chance of dying by up to 38%  A new study examining the impact of roadway proximity to the risk of a sudden heart attack found that living near a major road had as much of an effect as smoking, diet and obesity.

The Mirror

• George Osborne accused of betraying Britain with Eurostar saleMick Cash, leader of the RMT rail union, said: “This is a gross act of betrayal of the British people by a right-wing Government hellbent on selling the family silverâ€�
• Ebola 'temperature tests' to start at Heathrow Airport as UK braces itself for killer virusHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt told Parliament screenings will start on Tuesday and and follow at Gatwick and Eurostar terminals by the end of the week

Network Rail

• Network Rail and Merseyrail ready to tackle leaves on the lineWork is underway across Merseyside to tackle the impact that autumn has on the rail network.
• Rail disruption between Potters Bar and New BarnetNetwork Rail apologises to passengers affected by disruption to services at the south end of the East Coast Main Line today (Monday, 13 October).

Daily Post (North Wales)

• LOOK: Further protest held over Talybont to Ysgol Llandygai school bus axingA second protest has taken place against the axing of the bus service near Bangor

London Evening Standard

• Heathrow's expansion calls grow louder after record month The chief executive of Heathrow has re-iterated calls to expand the airport as its freight business grew rapidly last month.
• Eurostar sale shunned by France's SNCF as UBS role is attacked As the Government today fired the starting gun on the sale of its £300 million holding in Eurostar, SNCF, the French majority shareholder in the Channel tunnel train operator, ruled out buying the 40% stake.
• Ebola UK: Screening to begin at Heathrow as UK steps up preparations Screening for Ebola will start at Heathrow tomorrow as Britain dramatically steps up its readiness to deal with up to 26 cases at a time of the killer virus.
• Tube passengers left 'screaming in terror' as window 'explodes' on Piccadilly Line Tube passengers screamed in terror as a window on a train "exploded" in north London today.

Sheffield Star

• More bus trips being made, Rotherham partnership saysAn extra 27,000 bus journeys have been made since the Rotherham Bus Partnership came into force, according to figures.

Bucks Free Press

• New £30 million HS2 benefit scheme 'not enough' say opponents THIRTY million pounds is to be set aside in benefits to communities living near the planned HS2 line - but opponents say that's not enough.

Other Regional Press

• 77% drop in motorists ignoring new bus gateTHE number of motorists illegally driving through a controversial bus gate has fallen by almost 77% since its introduction.

Aviation Industry

• Heathrow posts record September traffic figures6.58 million passengers passed through the airport last month
• Heathrow Ebola screening to start TuesdayScreenings to start at Gatwick and St.Pancras in next few days

Other News Sources

• Stansted flying high as September passenger numbers break records Stansted Airport has seen its largest monthly increase in passenger numbers in over eight years* as it flew over 1.8 million passengers in September, an increase of 230,000 (+14%) compared to the corresponding month last year.