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Sunday, 19 July 2015

BBC News

• Bus services safe amid £500,000 cutsMost bus services in Powys will be protected despite a £500,000 cut in spending by the local authority.
• VIDEO: 'Road-rage' victim a 'fantastic person'Don Lock's son describes his father as a
• M6 reopens after fire melts surfaceA stretch of the M6 which was closed when heat from a burning lorry melted the road surface, has reopened, police say.
• Delayed rail passengers to get cashRail passengers who suffer travel delays can now claim refunds in cash instead of vouchers as new compensation arrangements come into effect.
• Five wanted over tram derailmentFive people are wanted by police after a Manchester tram was derailed and a second vehicle had its windows smashed as passengers dived for cover.
• Seven hurt as bus crashes into bridgeSeven people are injured when a bus crashes into a railway bridge in south-east London.

The Guardian

• Landing gear panel falls off Boeing 777 into Chinese suburbBoeing issues a service bulletin to airlines to address a maintenance issue following the incident on an Air France flight from Shanghai to ParisThe US aviation giant Boeing says it has asked airlines to address a maintenance issue after a passenger jet’s landing gear panel fell off after takeoff on to a Shanghai suburb.The sheet of metal weighing 60kg (130 pounds) plunged to the ground shortly after Air France flight 111 took off from Shanghai headed for Paris on Monday, Boeing said. Continue reading...

The Independent

• Drone racing: Teenagers are being lured away from screens and outside to fly their aircraft against each other Luke Bannister is a 15-year-old schoolboy with dreams of becoming a pilot. A drone pilot that is, a job that didn’t exist as recently as 10 years ago.

The Scotsman

• Scots passengers vent anger at train cancellationsHUNDREDS of trains have been cancelled across Scotland’s rail network because of a shortage of drivers at the country’s main train operator.

The Telegraph

• M6 blaze: motorway shut for 16 hours after dramatic lorry fire melted the carriageway, with seven hour delays reportedThe summer holidays began with traffic misery for thousands who got stuck in lengthy tailbacks on the M6 which was shut at 1.30am and did not reopen until 5.45pm. However one enterprising ice cream vendor did a roaring trade in the middle of the jam
• Government invests £20m into testing driverless carsThe money is designed to make the Britain the best place to test state of the art autonomous vehicles

City AM

• Google self-driving cars have had their first injury accidentGoogle's self-driving cars have had their first accident which resulted in three passengers sustaining minor injuries according to the company.The tech giant said that the accident happened on 1 July when its driverless Lexus sports utility vehicle was rear-ended while stationary in a queue of traffic on a road in California."Thankfully, everyone in both vehicles was okay, except for a bit of minor whiplash, and a few scrapes on our bumper. The other vehicle wasn’t so lucky; its entire front bumper fell off," the head of Google's self-driving car program, Chri...
• A Spanish airport sold for just £7,000A Spanish ghost airport, one of the symbols of the economic woes the country endured amid the Eurozone crisis, sold for €10,000 (£7,000) at a bankruptcy auction today.Ciudad Real Airport was snapped up by Chinese investment company Tzaneen International which wants to transform it into a European hub for Chinese businesses.The airport is 146 miles south of Madrid cost more than €1bn (£694m) to build. It had initially opened in 2008 but was bankrupt and closed just four years later.It's one of the country's "ghost" airports which were built ahea...

Mail Online

• British Transport Police park up on double yellow lines to get a Mr Whippy ice cream  The officers left their vehicles on Goods Way, near King's Cross in London, around 1pm on Saturday. Pictures show the pair chatting to families as they wait in the queue in the sun.
• Uber-style app Victor allows you to book 'empty legs' on executive planes An Uber-style travel app is bringing luxury travel to savvy travellers by offering seats at low prices when their super-rich owners don't need them. British aviation company Victor is behind the concept.
• Car rental 'rip-off' for UK tourists if you admit to being British Claiming to be Norwegian or Australian got Channel 4 researchers a significant discount when hiring a car abroad. Channel 4 programme Supershoppers reveals more tricks of the trade.
• British Airways stewardess dies from malaria in Africa A major investigation is underway to find out how the woman, who has not been named, became sick while working on a long-haul flight from London Heathrow to Ghana's capital city Accra.

Birmingham Mail

• Summer getaway grinds to halt as M6 closure leaves families facing THREE HOUR delays Road surface needed repairs after huge lorry trailer fire caused surface to melt
• Watch 1963 film about Birmingham and how the grand Inner Ring Road was championedBritain on Film series continues with a look at the construction of the Inner Ring Road in Birmingham

Bolton News

• Bus firm accused of ignoring needs of residents after announcing raft of route changes POLITICIANS, campaigners and residents have criticised a bus company after it announced a raft of changes to its services.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• IN PICTURES and VIDEO: M6 closure as severe lorry fire melts road surfaceA severe lorry fire has closed the M6 southbound.

Bucks Free Press

• Bus company wants help naming 5 new High Wycombe buses A bus company wants High Wycombe residents to help name a fleet of buses which will carry passengers through the town.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Return trip to former glory for stationA historic Victorian railway station will be brought back to its glorious best after years of being left derelict at the side of the tracks.
• No late Whittlesey buses due to lack of funding says Stagecoach as campaign launchesA campaign to improve bus services in Whittlesey is underway after complaints of a limited service and overcrowding.
• Replica spitfire performs emergency landing at Sibson AirfieldA replica spitfire pilot had to perform an emergency landing at Sibson Airfield after their landing gear failed.

Other Regional Press

• Train union to strike as pay talks derail The RMT union will decide on future train strike dates after rejecting a revised offer from First Great Western.
• Roundabout roadworks cause ‘unacceptable’ two-hour delay TRAFFIC blocked the A40 and A44 yesterday after preparatory work started on the Wolvercote and Cutteslowe roundabouts.
• Bus driver who carried out U-turn on the M1 in Northamptonshire has ‘resigned’A coach driver seen performing a three-point turn on the M1 in Northamptonshire to avoid a tailback has since quit the company, a spokesman has confirmed.
• Police issue pictures of off-road bikes being crushed as warning to antisocial riders Police urge victims to report riders causing nuisance and danger to public
• Commuters in Letchworth can get their bikes up to the security mark on TuesdayCommuters will get the chance to have their bikes security marked at Letchworth’s railway station on Tuesday.

Railway Gazette

• EU-funded modernisation of Czech independent railway underwayCZECH REPUBLIC: Work is underway to modernise and install 3 kV DC electrification on the...