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Heathrow's owner confirms sell-off of its other three airports

Buyers of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton are Australian bank Macquarie and Spanish firm Ferrovial in deal worth £1bnHeathrow has confirmed it is to sell the other three airports it owns in a deal worth just over £1bn.The buyers for Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports are a consortium formed by Spanish construction firm Ferrovial still the largest single shareholder in Heathrow and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, which recently sold its interest in Bristol airport.

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  • Heathrow's owner confirms sell-off of its other three airportsBuyers of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton are Australian bank Macquarie and Spanish firm Ferrovial in deal worth £1bnHeathrow has confirmed it is to sell the other three airports it owns in a deal worth just over £1bn.The buyers for Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports are a consortium formed by Spanish construction firm Ferrovial still the largest single shareholder in Heathrow and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, which recently sold its interest in Bristol airport.

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  • Ferrovial consortium to buy three UK airports for $1.7 billionMADRID/LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish infrastructure company Ferrovial has teamed up with Macquarie Infrastructure Fund to buy three regional British airports for 1.048 billion pounds ($1.7 billion), leaving the owners of London's Heathrow Airport with just one asset.

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  • Public meetings to discuss level crossing closuresPeople in Newark and Claypole are invited to share their views as part of a second round public consultation into Network Rail’s plans to close level crossings at the south end of the East Coast Main Line.

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  • Manchester Airport tram line to open next month Services on the new Metrolink line to Manchester Airport will open to passengers on Monday 3 November – more than 12 months ahead of schedule. The final stage of testing will start on 20 October when trams will run without passengers between Cornbrook and the airport every 12 minutes – reflecting the actual headways after the launch. The line will be the first not to serve the city centre, because there is no more capacity through the critical delta triangle at Piccadilly Gardens. However, the airport service will be extended through the centre when the second line between St Peter's Square a...
  • Stoke on Trent mounts bid to be on HS2 route A business case prepared by the city of Stoke on Trent has been presented to the Government today, which urges the inclusion of Stoke and north Staffordshire on the route of HS2. The document has been produced by various specialists including economic consultants Volterra, who sit on HS2 Ltd™s Economics Advisory Committee. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership chair David Frost said that the business case 'makes solid financial sense for UK plc', while Volterra chief executive Bridget Rosewell said the Government and HS2 Ltd could not ignore their findings, which concl...

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