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Monday, 19 January 2015

BBC News

• Plans to improve road links to Holyhead port from A55Improving road links from Holyhead Port on Anglesey to the A55 are to be considered by the Welsh government.
• British Transport Police data 'undermined police intelligence'An urgent inquiry is needed into the way in which British Transport Police (BTP) handles data, according to the Home Affairs Select Committee chairman.
• What inspired a new bicycle laser light?The fear of being run over by a lorry while out cycling gave Emily Brooke the brainwave to create an innovative new bike light.
• Eurostar to resume after disruptionEurostar says it plans to run a full timetable on Monday, after passengers on the cross-Channel rail service suffered a weekend of delays and cancellations.
• Rail link bid for Aberystwyth and Carmarthen outlined at meetingOver 100 people attended a meeting amid hopes a rail link between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen can be reopened.

ITV News

• Bus passenger rise in GuernseyGuernsey buses have seen an increase in passengers. Latest figures from the Government show 8% more islanders are using the service compared with last year.

Financial Times

• Fears mount of work stoppage at US portsFood producers and footwear retailers express concern of simmering labour dispute

The Guardian

• Eurostar travellers face more disruption from power supply problems after fireReports of passengers being stuck on trains for hours, one day after lorry fire in Channel tunnel left 12,000 customers stranded
• Anarchy in the bus lane: how protesters quietly took over London’s streetsYour job is a stupid waste of time – and the police caused the 2011 riots. That’s what a spate of posters recently told London commuters. Who masterminded it? We pick up the trail at an anarchist magazine

The Herald

• East Coast travellers in line for airmiles under new franchiseLONG distance rail travellers will be able to collect points towards transatlantic flights when the East Coast franchise returns to the private sector in six weeks time.

Birmingham Post

• MPs opposing HS2 call for taxpayers referendum The House of Commons will debate and vote on the proposal, which is backed by Staffordshire MP Michael Fabricant (Con, Lichfield)

Bolton News

• Trains through Bolton station delayed after man threatens to jump from railway bridge TRAINS through Bolton were delayed after a man threatened to jump from an overbridge.

London Evening Standard

• Fresh Eurostar misery as six trains are cancelled due to power fault a day after fire Eurostar services have been affected by fresh problems as the service attempted to get back to normal after a fire left thousands of passengers stranded on either side of the Channel.
• Moment pedestrian is hit by scooter at St Pancras station during live ITV News report This is the astonishing moment a pedestrian with a suitcase was bowled over by a moped rider in a crash screened live on television.
• The box junction outside a fire station in east London that rakes in almost £1m each year A single box junction camera in Hackney has raked in nearly £1 million a year from motorists for Transport for London, the Evening Standard has discovered.

Manchester Evening News

• Manchester Airport soars over Gatwick and Heathrow to be named best in UKManchester Airport has soared over Heathrow and Gatwick to be named Best UK Airport. The honour, bestowed at last night’s Globe Travel Awards, follows a phenomenal year of passenger and route growth - as well as huge infrastructure investment.

Sheffield Telegraph

• Bike thefts fall after crackdown by South Yorkshire PoliceBike theft in Sheffield city centre has plunged due to a police crackdown, a South Yorkshire inspector has said.

Other Regional Press

• Transport Secretary hails rail revolution during Morley visitTransport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has defended the government’s rail policy and has hailed what he called a “revolution” in the rail network over the last 20 years.
• Fears over "illustrative map" showing Gatwick flight path over Copthorne and Crawley DownCOPTHORNE and Crawley Down residents have expressed disbelief that a map released by the Airports Commision relating to Gatwick's proposed second runway shows what appears to be plans for a new flightpath directly over their homes.
• Thirty-year campaign for new £10m Elland railway station gets major boostWest Yorkshire Combined Authority to press ahead with feasibility study
• Rail price rises add heat to valley’s transport debateRail ticket prices and the option of re-nationalisation of the railways are topics confirming the 2015 General Election campaign is well on track in the Calder Valley.
• Transport firms should pass on oil savings – Gosport MPCALLS have been made for transport firms to look at lowering their prices following the fall in oil costs.
• Call to review transport rules for rural pupilsA group of parents have launched a campaign to get county councillors to reconsider the free school transport policy.
• Green Party unveil their 'essential policy offer' to transform transport in Cambridge Congestion charging, public sector control over buses and a push to make Cambridge Europe’s best city for cycling have been unveiled among the measures for the Green Party’s city transport vision.

Other News Sources

• Blackburn with Darwen bus users in final plea to save service from cuts DISABLED and elderly users of Blackburn with Darwen’s fleet of community transport buses have made a final plea to save the service from council cuts.
• Transport Minister visits businesses in the Midlands affected by HS2The Transport Minister visited Cheshire and Staffordshire, both of which will be affected by HS2
• Met Police creates a new transport command for LondonThe Metropolitan Police has created a new, single police command with the aim of improving the safety and security of London’s roads, bus network and other surface transport services.
• MPs' funding probe damns DfT's lack of a transport strategy to guide projectsMPs on the Commons Public Accounts committee have criticised the DfT for its lack of a strategic transport plan, saying without this there is no way to determine whether individual schemes to develop the high-speed rail network should be priorities or not.
• "Transport is as much of a day-to-day issue as crime, the economy and immigration" Getting transport policy right is crucial for the upcoming election, says columnist Mike Rutherford