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Monday, 13 July 2015

Financial Times

• The not so friendly skies of AmericaThe clout of the big carriers in Washington outweighs the woes of millions of frustrated flyers
• BP faces billions more in spill paymentsBusiness claims over 2010 disaster could to be at least $2bn above group’s $10.3bn provision

The Guardian

• Heathrow airport disrupted as climate activists protest on northern runwayDirect action group Plane Stupid says a dozen demonstrators cut through a fence and entered the runway at 3.30am

The Herald

• Full steam ahead for stations biofuel planThe UK's biggest railway stations have signed up to a new project turning coffee waste into fuel.

The Telegraph

• Heathrow Airport delays as Plane Stupid activists block runway - liveFlights delayed as dozen demonstrators from direct action group cut hole in fence to enter runway at 3.30am - latest updates

City AM

• Gatwick boasts record June numbers as Lords prepare to grill DaviesGatwick airport today revealed  significant growth in long haul  traffic, as the company said June was its 28th consecutive month of  passenger growth. In total, 3.8m people travelled through Gatwick last month,  making it the busiest ever June. The south-of-London airport said that 184,000 more passengers passed through it last month, compared to the same time the year before, The figures come amid the fallout from Sir Howard Davies’ review into airport expansion, which gave the nod to a third runway being built at Heathrow. Stewart Wingate, Gatwick chief ex...

Daily Express

• Fury as Network Rail chiefs are handed millions in bonuses despite disappointing customersRAIL bosses have rewarded themselves with “outrageous” pay increases despite passengers facing a decade of delays, it was revealed last night.

Daily Record

• AA blasts 'crazy and inexplicable' bus lane fines in Glasgow as it's revealed 10,000 tickets are handed out every monthTHE motoring organisation hit out at the scale of the fines as it was revealed one camera in the city racked up more fines in six months than every camera combined in Edinburgh managed in a year.

London Evening Standard

• Heathrow delays: Activists chain themselves on runway in protest over airport expansionClimate change activists this morning threatened chaos at Heathrow Airport as they staged a protest in the middle of its north runway.
• Heathrow delays: Activists chain themselves on runway in protest over airport expansionClimate change activists this morning threatened chaos at Heathrow Airport as they staged a protest in the middle of its north runway.
• Bus ploughs into suburban front garden after crash in Beckenham A person has been arrested after a collision between a car and a bus which ended up in the front garden of a south London home.
• Boy, 16, who died after 'touching railway power lines' named as Kyle Bradley The teenager who died after apparently climbing onto a freight train and touching overhead power lines yesterday evening has been named as Kyle Bradley.

Nottingham Evening Post

• My Job: Award winning double decker bus driver Double decker bus driver Les Roome admits the sheer importance of his job does occasionally hit him.

Sheffield Star

• Council u-turn on Sheffield bus lane which would see 129 trees being axedControversial plans to axe more than 120 trees to make way for a bus lane in Sheffield could be shelved.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• ScotRail could Highlands in favour of Borders with modern trainsRail passengers in the Highlands could lose their modern carriages to a new railway in the Borders.

Lancashire Telegraph

• Fears raised over rail passenger safetyUp to 1,000 train guards in the north of England could be sacked to make way for “driver only operation” according to rail unions.

Reading Evening Post

• Reading to hold black cab survey to see if the town needs more Reading Borough Council licensing committee agreed to retain its cap on Hackney Carriage licences and to hold an 'unmet needs' survey

Sleaford Standard

• Repair work to be carried out on Kirkstead BridgeMaintenance work is due to start on Kirkstead Bridge between Martin and Woodhall Spa on July 20 and will last for two and a half months.

Other Regional Press

• Rail operator is just grandGrand Central Railway has once again been marked as one of Britain’s highest-rated long distance train operators for customer satisfaction.
• Hundreds of people sign petition urging Prime Minister David Cameron to stop Operation Stack on the M20An online petition set up to urge the Prime Minister to abandon Operation Stack has attracted hundreds of signatures.
• Work to end flooding at Wymondham railway bridge begins tomorrowWork to curb notorious flooding issues on a Wymondham road begins tomorrow.
• Planners spend £12k investigating new Cambridge railway bridge – and decide to ‘do nothing’A new bridge over the railway line in Cambridge looks dead in the water after transport chiefs spent £12,000 exploring the options – only to find the best course of action is "do nothing".
• Identical Norwich twins launch identical careers as conductors for Abellio Greater AngliaThey look, sound and dress the same and grew up with the same ambition... to work on the railways.
• Extra measures needed to keep Bath moving as electrification work startsWork to prepare the Bath railway corridor for electrification begins next week and extra measures will be needed to keep the city moving.
• Localism: Why the Transporter Bridge has become THE symbol of Teesside Ahead of the forthcoming Localism exhibition at mima, these superb pictures show the changing landscape around our 'majestic dinosaur'
• Minister urged to clarify M4 Relief Road plans TRANSPORT minister Edwina Hart has been urged to make clear to the Assembly and the public whether or not the Welsh Government intends to pursue an M4 Relief Road project around Newport.
• Newport council criticised for spending nearly £200k on 'Streetscene' department consultant NEWPORT City Council spent almost £200,000 on consultants to run its ‘Streetscene’ department over 15 months, the council’s Tory leader said

Railway Gazette

• Biofuel from station coffee wasteUK: Following a successful trial, infrastructure manager Network Rail and Bio-bean have signed an...

Other News Sources

• Protest sparks Heathrow disruptionTravellers have been warned to expect disruption as climate change activists stage a protest on the north runway at Heathrow Airport.
• Crossrail supplied sea-wall breached in EssexSeveral million tonnes of soil dug from under London by Crossrail have been used to build a new sea wall around an island in the Thames Estuary. Over the weekend, the wall was breached and saltwater flooded the farmland.
• Midlothian MSP takes a trip on new railwayMidlothian South MSP Christine Grahame recently joined Holyrood colleagues on a journey along the soon to be reopened Borders Railway.
• Southport train station could be about to have a re-vampCompared to the glamorous Victorian exteriors of the Lord Street and the beaches alongside Southport pier, Southport Train station has always been a bit of an ugly duckling.
• Rail strike called off after ‘breakthrough’ PLANNED strikes by engineers on Southern Railway due to start last night have been suspended.