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Sunday, 30 August 2015

BBC News

• VIDEO: Lorry driver's migrant crisis despairThe Calais migrant crisis is costing the road haulage industry £750,000 per day with delays and queues holding up the flow of traffic.
• Passengers trapped after bus crashesTwo bus passengers are trapped and a further 10 are injured when a bus crashes into a tree in east London.
• France train attack: Europe 'to tighten rail security'European ministers have agreed tighter controls at railway stations, the French interior minister has announced.

Financial Times

• EU ministers back tighter rail securityOfficials call for more checks on travelers after attack on Paris train

The Guardian

• We are not obliged to offer cheapest tickets, says First Great Western emailTrain companies are under no obligation to offer passengers the cheapest tickets available, one of the largest firms has claimed. According to emails that came to light on Friday, it is First Great Western’s policy to presume that people have already researched the cheapest fares “by the time the passenger is requesting their tickets at the booking office”.

The Independent

• Paris train attack: Theresa May joins European Ministers at security summit after foiled railway plot The Home Secretary Theresa May is in Paris to attend a security summit in light of the foiled gun attack on a French train.
• Jeremy Corbyn woos North by promising to fight 'cruel deception' of George Osborne's economic powerhouse plans Jeremy Corbyn is hoping to win over Labour supporters in the party’s northern heartlands with a promise to fight the “cruel deceptionâ€� of George Osborne’s plans to turn the region into an economic powerhouse.
• London bus crash: 10 passengers in hospital after driver hits tree Ten bus passengers were taken to hospital after the driver crashed into a tree in London.

The Scotsman

• Jim Steer: High speed rail must stay on trackIT’S so much easier to back infrastructure investment when year after year, demand grows at exceptional levels. That’s why I shall be arguing at our conference in Glasgow this week for Anglo-Scottish HSR to remain firmly on the agenda in Westminster and Holyrood.

The Telegraph

• First Great Western bank holiday strike: which trains aren't running?FGW says 70 per cent of services are running, and 90 per cent of trains in London and Thames Valley are working
• New plans to overhaul driving tests, including changing the age and using satnavsProposals to change the driving test to increase the pass rate could see the age changed and the test involving satnavs
• Double drive: Two children, two schools, half an hour away from each otherMinister promises to end transport 'nightmare' faced by many parents with children at different schools

Daily Express

• Calais crisis: Now British holidaymakers held up for 14 HOURS by rioting Roma gypsiesBRITISH holidaymakers returning to Calais were hit with more chaos yesterday as a mob of Roma gypsies setting fire to piles of tyres and chainsawing branches of trees blocked the motorway they were travelling on.

Mail Online

• Family arrived at Birmingham Airport to find 'ghost Monarch Airlines flight' didn't exist The Hall family (pictured) arrived at Birmingham Airport on July 25, for a 10-day getaway to Faro, Portugal - with booking confirmation in hand - only to be told that their flight didn't exist.
• National Express passenger fined £1,300 for failing to pay £2.20 bus fare Colette Southern, 25, from Wolverhampton, says she took the bus - which charges £2.20 for a single journey - because the colleague who usually gives her a lift to work was off.
• Cowboy airport parking companies at Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester exposed Parking firms operating out of Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester airports have been caught by the Mail on Sunday leaving vehicles next to strip clubs and mud-strewn fields and on crime-ridden streets.

The Mirror

• Jeremy's gone from sexy sea dog to cock-up Corbyn with 'loco' plans for women-only carriages Rachael Bletchly re-introducing women-only carriages would be admitting defeat and shames both sexes

This is Money

• Should petrol have fallen to £1 per litre already? Motorists have to drive back to 24th March 2009 for the last time both unleaded and diesel were under the 'golden' £1 a litre mark - will drivers ever see this level return to pumps?

London Evening Standard

• EasyJet flight diverted after popped champagne cork causes oxygen masks to drop from ceilingAn easyJet flight from London to Turkey was forced to make an unscheduled landing after a popped champagne cork reportedly caused oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling

Sheffield Star

• ID checks and baggage searches on European rail routes to be increasedEuropean ministers have agreed to increase security on key international rail routes and improve intelligence sharing after the thwarted gun attack on a French train.

Other Regional Press

• Rain has not delayed roadworks - Hampshire council WORKERS behind a controversial scheme to make a Hampshire street more pedestrian-friendly say they are still on target to complete it.
• First Great Western train services from Oxford hit by strike A strike is disrupting train services in Oxfordshire over the Bank Holiday weekend.
• Pedal power is a winner at Hartlepool green scheme’s roadshowPedal power rules in Hartlepool – and it’s even helping to make smoothies.
• Rail passengers facing disruption over the festive period RAIL passengers will face significant disruption over the festive period when train services between Bournemouth and the New Forest are suspended for 11 days over Christmas and New Year.

Other News Sources

• Extra service announced for Winchester bus route BLUESTAR have increased the number of bus services on one of their Winchester routes.
• Shoreham Airshow disaster: A27 reopens to motorists for the first time since jet crash The A27 has reopened to motorists, eight days after the Shoreham Airshow disaster.
• Luton airport bosses want to 'simplify' noise rules they say unfairly target quiet planes LUTON Airport has submitted an application to 'simplify' noise limits it says will target quieter planes during its expansion.
• Westminster Watch: Davies under fire over Heathrow recommendationPoor old Sir Howard Davies. He spends two and a half years of his life wading through expansion proposals, appraisal frameworks, consultation responses and so on to produce emerging thinking documents, an interim report and a final 344-page report… And gets told not only that his analysis is flawed, but that his integrity is, too.