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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

BBC News

• 'Stunning' New Street station praisedMany rail passengers praise Birmingham's newly-refurbished New Street station, while others ask if it is
• Lufthansa to offer short-haul broadbandGerman airline Lufthansa plans to offer broadband access on its short and medium-haul flights from the summer of next year.
• Great Western goes back to the futureRebranded Great Western Railway (GWR) trains are unveiled by the company previously known as First Great Western.
• Westminster worst for road crashesNew interactive map designed by Transport for London shows London's worst spots for road traffic collisions.
• VIDEO: Hitachi boss's travel tipThe boss of Hitachi Hiroaki Nakanishi offers the business advice he wishes he'd had when he started out, as part of the BBC News series, CEO Secrets.

Financial Times

• 4G internet on way for airline passengersNew partnership marks latest push to boost connectivity in the skies
• Uber rise hits Yellow Cabs marketMedallion Financial considers exit from public markets as its value plunges

The Herald

• Glasgow pitched to business travellers in six-week Heathrow marketing campaignEUROPE'S busiest airport has launched a six-week marketing drive to encourage investment into Glasgow.

The Telegraph

• Volkswagen emissions scandal: millions of Britons could be driving illegal carsMillions of diesel cars could be recalled if manufacturers are found to have rigged emissions tests like Volkswagen

Times Online

• Leave railways alone, former Labour minister pleads [subscription]Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to renationalise the railways will cost billions of pounds but fail to make any difference to the standard of service, according to a former Labour rail minister.
• Corbyn ally bought land to stop runway [subscription]The shadow transport secretary was the owner of a slice of land near Heathrow bought to stop a third runway being built.
• Roadworks must not last for more than two miles [subscription]Long stretches of roadworks are to be banned from motorways and major A-roads in England under government plans to cut congestion on the country’s busiest roads, The Times has learnt.

City AM

• Balfour Beatty and Carillion win roads contract worth up to £292mA JOINT venture between construction groups Balfour Beatty and Carillion has won a Highways England contract to upgrade part of the A14. The companies expect the deal to generate around £292m in revenue for the joint venture. The construction package is part of the wider A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, to which the government has pledged a £1.5bn investment. The initial contract, won by the 50:50 Balfour Beatty Carillion firm, is valued at almost £500,000, with the full contract award subject to statutory approval of the project. Construction work is expected to sta...

Daily Record

• Union bosses react with fury over plans to privatise Network Rail GENERAL secretary of Rail, Maritime and Transport union Mick Cash said any threat "will meet with the hardest possible industrial and political response from RMT."

Mail Online

• Millions hit by VW's £10bn green test fiddle scandal: Questions over British models after US diesel emissions furore Shares in the world's biggest car firm shares slumped by nearly 20 per cent yesterday, wiping £10billion from its market value, following the revelation.
• Go back to Brunel, not the hell of British Rail...by MICHAEL WILLIAMS MICHAEL WILLIAMS: There was no 'golden age' of the railway under state ownership, and those who believe so are suffering from delusion or a tragic failure of memory.

The Mirror

• British Airways passengers caught up in Las Vegas plane fire 'to seek compensation over trauma'Forty passengers on the doomed Gatwick-bound flight are seeking “damages, loss of earnings, help and support for the trauma”

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Passengers evacuated after coach crashes through railings at Wrexham train stationThe vehicle is hanging over an embankment above the car park to Wrexham General and is blocking the road in both directions

London Evening Standard

• Student hopes his design for '21st century rickshaw' could ease London transport congestionCoventry University student Sherazam Tiwana has created a concept for a 21st century rickshaw service to rival black cabs
• Taxi driver 'luddites' row: Police release CCTV of men wanted over storming of City HallThese are the faces of five men police say stormed City Hall after Boris Johnson called a chamber full of taxi drivers “ludditesâ€� during a public debate.
• Victoria line severe delays: Oxford Circus shuts due to faulty train, stranding hundreds in grim weatherCommuters faced Tube chaos “worse than during a strikeâ€� this evening as the Victoria line was crippled by a faulty train, leaving hundreds stranded outside Oxford Circus in miserable weather.

Manchester Evening News

• Police called after disgruntled man jumped in front of bus and refused to move after it turned up lateThe one man protest dumbfounded passers-by on Oxford Road

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Government must build new runway at Heathrow, says North East business chiefCBI regional chair says MPs must vote for Heathrow expansion to keep the North East economy thriving
• Government must build new runway at Heathrow, says North East business chief CBI regional chair says MPs must vote for Heathrow expansion to keep the North East economy thriving

Wales Online

• Coach crashes into railings near Wrexham railway stationThe driver and passengers have been evacuated from the coach which was left teetering over the station car park

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Call for more car parking at Leeds stationTransport chiefs are being urged to do more to ease parking congestion near Horsforth railway station.
• Passengers disrupted as emergency engineering works hits services in the northRAIL passengers in the north have been hit by long delays due to emergency engineering works.

Crewe Chronicle

• Luxury German car maker returns after 54 years For the first time since 1961, Borgward is about to start making cars again. And it’s going to kick off by selling a petrol-engined SUV in China

Other Regional Press

• Rail firm seeks apprentices to get on board with new careerA train company is offering 12 young people the chance to join and free training and support scheme designed to help them into work.
• Safety fears as new road markings send Huddersfield drivers round the bendTraffic steered the 'wrong way' on what was considered a one way street
• Rail firm seeks apprentices to get on board with new careerA train company is offering 12 young people the chance to join and free training and support scheme designed to help them into work.

Bus and Coach.com

• New apprenticeship standard launched
• Geldards Coaches in administration
• York travel pass helps customers with learning difficulties
• Lucketts becomes fourth to achieve CPT Workshop Accreditation
• Carbon Trust Standard reaffirmed for Stagecoach Group
• New Scania ADL decker fleet for NCT’s Turquoise Line

Railnews

• The Great Western Railway is back in business Weekday commuter trains run officially under the banner of the Great Western Railway are arriving at Paddington today for the first time since 31 December 1947. FirstGroup is launching its new franchise under the brand of the former company which existed continuously from the 1830s until 1947, being the only one to survive the 'Grouping' of 1923.

Aviation Industry

• UK airlines reject APD proposals, call for abolitionThe UK airline industry has rejected government air passenger duty (APD) proposals and is calling for APD to be eliminated. read more
• Lufthansa to launch new Internet technology on European flightsLufthansa will offer high-speed Internet access on its short- and medium-haul European flights from early summer 2016. read more
• Iberia Express adds Birmingham routeLow-cost carrier will operate flights to Madrid from Midlands airport
• Southend retains title of UK’s best airportEssex airport scores highly with passengers for customer satisfaction
• Etihad agrees deal with charter specialistAirline will work with private jet firm Chapman Freeborn
• Lufthansa plans internet access on short-haul flightsCarrier intends to offer broadband coverage from summer 2016

Other News Sources

• Howard Davies: Harangued over Heathrow and a sad farewell to ManchesterMT DIARY: The employment and business advantages of a third runway are not getting a fair hearing.
• VW launches investigation into 'defeat device' allegations Volkswagen has ordered an external investigation after US regulators discovered software in certain diesel models that circumvents emissions standards.
• Bus company admits there have been teething problems with take-over ONE of the bus companies which took over services in the county from First has admitted there have been teething problems.