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Sunday, 22 November 2015

BBC News

• Ice on roads warning passesA Met Office warning to commuters about difficult driving conditions due to ice on the roads across Wales passes.
• VIDEO: Four Britons among NZ crash deadA helicopter which crashed in New Zealand was believed to have been carrying four British and two Australian tourists, police say.
• Reward over �1.1m rail arson attackA �30,000 reward is offered after an arson attack caused widespread disruption to train services that cost Network Rail more than �1m.
• Snowfalls and ice as cold snap arrivesSnow has been falling in some parts of Scotland, England and Wales with some roads closed and drivers warned to take extra care.

The Guardian

• Three men arrested in London as armed police close roadClosure of Blackfriars Road disrupted travel on Saturday as men held on suspicion of theft of motor vehiclePolice stopped a stolen Belgian registered car and arrested three men, sparking a major security alert in central London on Saturday afternoon.Roads were closed and the area around Blackfriars Road evacuated as armed police, with helicopters, ambulances and a fire engine attended the scene. Continue reading...
• Uber is certainly slick, but it’s not ‘disruptive’Although lauded as a genuinely innovative platform, the car-hailing service is based on an idea that’s as old as eBayDisruption, says the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is “a disrupted condition, disorder; a disrupted part; a rent; a tear” or “the action or an act of disrupting something”. In other words, bad news. Islamic State, for example, specialises in the disruption of orderly democratic life. Over in Silicon Valley, however, (and perhaps also in the hipster wastelands of Shoreditch), disruption is the holy grail of the tech industry. If you want a venture capitalist to get past the second s...
• Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell: car review | Martin LoveIt runs on hydrogen and emits nothing but a dribble of water. Could Hyundai’s ix35 Fuel Cell be the car of the future?Price: £53,105Top speed: 99mphPower: 134bhp0-62mph: 12.5 secondsFuel economy: 0.95kg of hydrogen per 369 miles (equivalent to about 60mpg)Hydrogen-powered cars are like buses. You wait years and years and then two come along at once: Hyundai’s ix35 Fuel Cell and Toyota’s Mirai. Both are seriously expensive, will be built in tiny numbers and face almost unimaginable infrastructure difficulties. Simply refuelling will be their biggest hurdle as currently there are only ...
• Bomb threat diverts Turkish Airlines flight to CanadaCanadian police say aircraft headed from New York to Istanbul with 256 people on board landed safely in Halifax and will be searchedA Turkish Airlines flight from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to Canada after a bomb threat.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was investigating a bomb threat that caused the flight to divert and land in Canada. Continue reading...
• New Zealand helicopter crash: British and Australian tourists who died namedTwo British couples and two Australians died with New Zealander pilot when sightseeing flight plummeted on to South Island’s Fox GlacierPolice have released the names of six passengers – four of them British and two Australians – who were killed when a helicopter crashed into a glacier in New Zealand. The pilot, from Queenstown on the South Island, also died.Two British couples – Andrew Virco, 50, and Katharine Walker, 51, from Cambridge, and Nigel Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton, 70, from Hampshire – were on the sightseeing helicopter when it crashed into a crevasse on the Fox Glacier on S...

The Herald

• Blue Skye Thinking: the battle to build an airport which will change Scotland's most beloved islandIF it happens it will change the beloved Isle of Skye forever.

The Telegraph

• Rail companies to be fined for late-running servicesMinisters are introducing a penalty scheme to hold rail operators directly responsible and tackle companies who pass the blame
• Channel ferries at risk from jihadi terror attackGovernment sources admit they are concerned about security at ferry ports over fears that terrorists - thwarted by tightened airport security - will switch attention to shipping
• Fox Glacier crash: Four British tourists killed in New Zealand helicopter accidentFour Britons reported killed after helicopter with six tourists onboard crashes into New Zealand glacier in bad weather

Times Online

• Hunt for Britons killed in helicopter crash (Subscription)RESCUE teams were preparing last night to resume efforts to recover the bodies of four British tourists from a glacier in New Zealand after their helicopter crashed in bad weather.
• Osborne pays out for 138 stealth jets (Subscription)BRITAIN is to buy 138 stealth fighter jets in a £12bn deal that will treble the firepower of the UK’s two new aircraft carriers and put the country on a “full war footing” in the Middle East for a generation.

Daily Express

• Parents warned as 31 babies killed by car seats PARENTS were warned last night not to leave babies strapped in their car seats for long periods after it was revealed that 31 have died.

Daily Record

• Record View: It's time to sort out the laws on big vehicle drivers who take to the roads in an unfit state SHERIFF Kenneth Mitchell deserves credit for blasting the “woefully inadequate” laws around those who drive public vehicles.
• Sheriff calls for tougher laws to prosecute drivers who ignore medical advice and black out at the wheel KENNETH Mitchell called for changes to the regulations as he passed ­judgment at a FAI into the death of Jim Lochrie, who was killed when bus driver David Logue hit him after passing out.

Mail Online

• London police arrest 3 men in Belgian-registered BMW on Blackfriars Road Police have arrested three men in a Belgium-registered vehicle following a traffic stop in Central London this afternoon.
• Jihadi suspect arrested in Sweden after crossing Arctic Circle on a BICYCLE Mutar Muthanna Majid, 25, was arrested at a refugee hostel in Boliden, Sweden. He had cycled from Russia. A loophole allows cyclists to be waved straight across the Norwegian border.
• Video 'shows Greek coast guard SINKING Syrian migrants' life raft' Footage recorded on November 12 by Turkish rescuers shows a crewman on a Greek-marked coast guard ship jabbing a pole into an inflatable ship in the Aegean Sea.
• Kenya traffic finally gets moving on jam which lasted THREE DAYS The affected route was on a key trade route for goods being imported from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa towards Nairobi and into east Africa. Drivers said they were stuck for 60 hours.
• VW says CO2 figures are probably wrong and offers to buy back vehicles� Volkswagen has issued a apology to customers about to take delivery of a new car, admitting its own CO2 and fuel-consumption figures are wrong but failing to say how the situation can be rectified.

The Mirror

• Gatwick Airport security breach as Mirror reporter stands unchallenged just YARDS from passenger plane Just days after the Islamic State attacks in Paris, our investigators sailed through unmanned gates and close to a fuel truck
• Turkish Airlines flight to New York diverted and passengers evacuated after bomb threat The plane landed safely and police were searching it using dogs trained in explosives, the Nova Scotia branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Twitter

This is Money

• How car dependent are you? One in four said they'd be anxious without a motor Being without a car would cost Britons an average of �540 extra a month and potentially have a real impact on their emotional state, according to new research from Direct Line.
• Cheaper fuel helps P&O Ferries steer its way to �13m profits, but trading conditions remain 'competitive' P&O Ferries, which is ultimately owned by Dubai World Corporation, turned a previous �10.2 million pre-tax loss into a �13 million profit, aided by an internal refinancing

Bristol Live

• EsmeAshcroft1 commented ​Seven best ways to de-ice your carThe warm autumn conditions have been replaced with arctic winds and the chance of sleety showers in Bristol this weekend.After weeks of temperatures in the mid-teens, the mercury could drop to 0 degrees on high and exposed areas in and around Bristol this evening. And, since it has been many months since the last frost, the Bristol Post has put together seven top tips on how to safely de-ice your car.1. The age-old advice is DO NOT pour boiling water on the windscreen. The sudden heat can make...

London Evening Standard

• Four British tourists killed as helicopter crashes into glacier in New ZealandSeven people are believed to have died in the crash, including the pilot and two Australian tourists
• Jaguar XJ 3.0 V6 Diesel Autobiography LWB: reviewIs the long-standing Jag getting long in the tooth, despite an upgrade?
• Zenos to gain Focus RS engineSports car maker preparing more powerful E10R
• Porsche 911 Carrera manual: reviewThe 911 for the working man proves there’s no need to stretch yourself for a more prestigious model

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• West Midlands motorists fail to pay at pump 22,000 timesMotorists have driven off from petrol stations in the West Midlands without paying more than 22,000 times in the past five years, latest figures reveal.

Yorkshire Post

• CCTV released after woman robbed at gunpoint at Leeds bus stopA WOMAN was robbed at gunpoint as she stood at a bus stop in Leeds.

North Wales Live

• Merseyrail train guard to stand trial after woman, 89, fell from platform at Hamilton Square station RMT union slams decisions to bring charges against Martin Zee, 32, and says court action is “unprecedented”

Sunderland Echo

• Road rage: Anger over poor turn out for driver survey which caused traffic hellThe news that just 14% of motorists responded to a traffic survey which caused rush-hour misery in Sunderland has created fury among Echo readers.

Other Regional Press

• Somerton Bridge WILL be replaced by a temporary footbridge, says Network Rail A TEMPORARY footbridge will be open next week as Network Rail carry out electrification work on the Somerton Road bridge.
• Extra park and ride buses laid on to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s Festival of ChristmasTHERE will be extra park and ride buses to the Victorian Festival of Christmas next weekend at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
• Police warning as Vauxhall cars are being canabalised by criminal gangsCriminal gangs are targeting parked Vauxhall Corsas and stripping them for parts.
• Port of Dover delays for security checksHeightened security controls are causing delays at Dover.
• Essex Chronicle published Hospital shuttle bus to launch from Chelmer Village at the end of...A new shuttle bus linking Chelmer Valley Park and Ride car park and Broomfield Hospital will start on Monday, November 30.The bus will run every half hour between the two sites from 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday, and cost £3 or free to concessions after 9am.Cllr Roger Hirst, Essex County Council cabinet member for transport, planning and environment, said: "We're pleased to be working with Mid Essex Hospitals Trust to improve parking and transportation for patients, staff and visitors...
• INVITE: come to the next Friends of Bridgwater Station meeting Local public transport users are invited to the next meeting of the Friends of Bridgwater Station, on Thursday�November 26, starting at 7.30pm at the Railway Club, Wellington Road, Bridgwater.
• New restrictions to solve parking issues NEW parking and waiting restrictions are set to come to a Hampshire village to solve car parking problems.
• Grimsby Telegraph published Where will the mobile speed camera van be this week, commencing...The mobile speed camera van operated by Safer Roads Humber will be at a number of locations in our area this coming week. On Tuesday, it will be on the A46 Weelsby Road, Grimsby and on Friday it will be on the A46 Laceby Road, Grimsby. Safer Roads Humber has fixed cameras located on the A46 Laceby bypass and average speed cameras are in operation on Peaks Parkway, Grimsby (40mph). Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
• Mystery over 101 call to Dorset Police... about a car crash in the USA DORSET Police received a 101 call reporting a road traffic collision this evening.... in the USA.
• What did the Romans do for us?: Roman road unearthed under Dorchester car park ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations at a building site in Dorchester have uncovered remnants of the main Roman road through the town.
• Police warning as Vauxhall cars are being canabalised by criminal gangsCriminal gangs are targeting parked Vauxhall Corsas and stripping them for parts.
• Going orange for airline’s landmark day as employees are reunitedThe dress code was simple for a reunion of employees - wear orange!

Forbes

• 12 Hottest New Trucks And SUVs For 2016

Other News Sources

• Terror alert shuts Brussels metro as jihadist on the runBrussels shut its metro system as a terror alert was raised to its highest level Saturday, with a gunman still on the run after the Paris attacks which have sent jitters through Europe.
• MPs call for diesel cars scrappage scheme to tackle air pollution The government should consider a scrappage scheme for diesel cars to get polluting vehicles off the streets of England's cities, where they contribute to tens of thousands of premature deaths every year, according to an influential committee of MPs.
• New staircase and lift gives commuters and visitors easier access to London Road from Brighton station COMMUTERS have had minutes shaved off their journey to work with the opening of a new staircase and lift.

EIN News Subscription

• Air transport agents expect major losses after banning transport of goods on passenger aircrafts … US airports, according to Tarek Darwish, head of the transport and air freight … , as well as some European airlines, will exacerbate the air transport industry’s losses … the aircrafts used are small. “The number of aircrafts used for transport is …
• EgyptAir bans transport of commodities on commercial flights: air cargo industry to suffer … US airports, according to Tarek Darwish, head of the transport and air freight … , as well as some European airlines, will exacerbate the air transport industry’s losses … the aircrafts used are small. “The number of aircrafts used for transport is …