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Saturday, 21 February 2015

BBC News

• Night Tube to run on most linesNight-time services are to run at weekends on most Tube lines, the London Overground and Docklands Light Railway, it is announced.

Financial Times

• Labour deal avoids US ports shutdownAgreement between employers and union set to ease crippling congestion
• Emirates attacks Delta chief’s credibilityEscalation of competition row draws in US terror attacks
• Chefs look to dine until dawn in LondonRestaurants expected to open later when tube starts all-night services later this year

The Guardian

• Expanded all-night tube plans are pre-election stunt, say rail unionsUnions question substance of George Osborne and Boris Johnson’s joint announcement of additions to 24-hour tube plans

The Herald

• Lost and found: the prosthetic limbs, maggots and Santa suits left behind by Glasgow bus passengers PROSTHETIC limbs, a living room carpet and even a box of maggots - these are just some of the wide variety of weird and wonderful items left behind on Glasgow buses.

Mail Online

• Is the air in your holiday plane poisoning you? Memory loss, chronic fatigue, breathing problems, even cancer. One former BA captain lifts the lid on aviations darkest secret...  SPECIAL REPORT: Former airline captain Tristan Loraine, pictured, was forced to retire in 2006 on health grounds, and has directed an independent film on 'aerotoxic syndrome'.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Wrexham to Birmingham rail service savedCampaigners were celebrating today after a threatened rail service from Wrexham to Birmingham was saved.

London Evening Standard

• Hundreds of millions of pounds could be paid back to motorists fined for parking on private land Motorists who are fined for overstaying in car parks on private land could be in line for multi-million pound repayments, according to a leading QC.
• All-night Tube services to be extended to much of London's rail network All-night rail services are to be extended to the London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and most Tube lines.

The York Press

• New law banning smoking in a cars when children are present is welcomed PUBLIC health workers in York have welcomed a new law banning smoking in a cars when children are present.

Blackpool Gazette

• Sales dip but profits rise for Fylde Coast jets makerBAE Systems has delivered a “solid” performance” over the past year according to its annual results.
• No guarantee of flights at Blackpool Airport until deal is agreedBlackpool Airport is facing a race against time to return commercial flights to Squires Gate.

Other Regional Press

• Shadow transport secretary joins Calder Valley train campaignThe Shadow Transport Secretary joined Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Calder Valley, Josh Fenton-Glynn and a group of campaigners to give his backing to the campaign for better rail services.
• Rail row flares as Labour challenger slams Hitchin MP’s ‘outside interests’A political row has flared after Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate accused Hitchin’s MP of being too busy to help his constituents due to work interests outside Parliament. The spat started when Peter Lilley MP met executives from under-fire rail company Govia Great Northern – which runs train lines through North Herts from London King’s Cross – to discuss their future plans and the repeated delays long-suffering commuters have endured since it took over the First Capital Connect franchise.
• Hope remains to save Huddersfield and Dewsbury free town buses despite budget cutTalks talking place before cut comes into force next September

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Minister inspects Cornwall transport investmentsThe transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has paid a visit to Cornwall to see the effects of government investment on the area’s connectivity. His day began at Newquay Airport, which has recently received £2.5 million of government funding to bolster its route to Gatwick. It is increasingly busy, as about 100,000 people use the facility for business and leisure transport each year. The Camborne Pool-Redruth Link Road was another stop on the itinerary, as it is expected to create 5,500 jobs in the area, and space for 6,200 new homes ahead of its opening later this year. Mr ...

Rail Magazine

• East Anglia rail franchise competition begins Procurement starts for new contract from October 2016.
• West Anglia task force looks to improve London-Stansted Airport connectionsBid to improve rail connections between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport.

Railnews

• Plans for more 24-hour trains are unveiled in London Plans to extend all-night services to the subsurface lines of London Underground as well as the DLR and part of the Overground have been announced by the Chancellor and the Mayor of London. But the RMT said the announcement had been

Railway Gazette

• Battery-diesel and dual-fuel locos roll outCHINA: CSR Ziyang has unveiled a 3 000 hp diesel-battery hybrid locomotive rated for use at marshalling yards, and a LNG-fuelled loco for mainline freight use

Transportxtra

• Pteg gives thumbs-down to bus operators’ smart ticket initiativeTHE BUS industry’s efforts to head-off the threat of bus franchising by offering inter-operable ‘smart’ tickets have been given short shrift by pteg, the organisation representing strategic transport bodies in England’s six biggest city regions outside London.
• Chancellor signals Bakerloo line extension part of "long-term economic plan"The Chancellor today launched a "long-term economic plan for London" that asks TfL for detailed proposals for a proposed extension of the Bakerloo line to south-east London.
• Cabinet member Cable joins rainbow coalition at anti-Heathrow expansion demoThe challenge of implementing any recommendation to expand Heathrow from the Davies Commission into how the U.K can maintain its status as an aviation hub has been underlined by a cross-party demo.

Aviation Industry

• Bmi Regional adds three new Bristol routesCarrier to fly to Paris, Dusseldorf and Nantes this summer

Green Miscellany

• Heathrow and Buckingham Palace face being among UK's most polluted roads for years to comeDefra forecasts show airport will enter top 50 for nitrogen dioxide levels by 2025, even without a new runway. Heathrow Airport would still have some of the worst air pollution in the country in 10 years' time even if it does not build another runway, government projections revealed this week.

Other News Sources

• M25 the early days - a 'wonderful road' Developing from an idea first suggested more than 100 years ago, the M25's popularity has led to the divisive road always having to find ways of accommodating extra visitors
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