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Friday, 15 June 2012

BBC News

• Fixed Penalty Notice motoring fines may rise to £90 Fines for motoring offences such as speeding should be increased from £60 to £90, the government suggested as it launched a consultation on the subject.
• Dualling A9 'should be priority'Making the A9 dual carriageway all the way from Inverness and Perth should be a Scottish government priority, MSPs say.

Department for Transport

• Transport Statistics: Vehicle Licensing Statistics: Quarter 1 2012The Department for Transport has today published the following Transport Statistics:
• New penalties to tackle careless drivingCareless drivers will be targeted under new proposals announced for consultation today by Road Safety Minister Mike Penning.

Financial Times

• Wincanton aims to raise market shareRestructuring aimed at allowing the logistics provider to focus on its core businesses in the UK and Ireland results in £47.4m pre-tax loss

The Herald

• Construction begins on new Forth bridgeCONSTRUCTION of the £1.5 billion road bridge over the Forth has begun in earnest with the first of several giant steel tubes that will house the foundations for its three towers being sunk into the river bed.
• Construction begins on new Forth bridgeCONSTRUCTION of the £1.5 billion road bridge over the Forth has begun in earnest with the first of several giant steel tubes that will house the foundations for its three towers being sunk into the river bed.
• A890 solutions under discussionA RANGE of options that could cost more than £100 million and include a tunnel, bridge and a new road are to be considered as a long-term solution to rockfalls that closed a vital route for four months.

The Telegraph

• Speeding fines to go up by 50 per centMinisters increase speeding penalty fine from £60 to £90, in move that could net Treasury additional £33.5m a year.

Birmingham Mail

• Transport Minister Norman Baker begins work to clear way for Midland Metro extension in BirminghamTHE first sod of earth has been turned on a scheme to extend the Midland Metro into the heart of Birmingham city centre.

Edinburgh Evening News

• Private firm set to control running of Forth Bridge routesTEN miles of public roads around the Forth Road Bridge are be handed to a private company to operate alongside the new and existing crossings.