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Thursday, 03 September 2015

BBC News

• Extra motorway lanes proposed by reportHard shoulders on parts of motorways should be turned into carriageways to ease traffic congestion, a report on Northern Ireland's roads says.

The Guardian

• Who's really driving you? Anxious taxi drivers – in pictures‘These haunting portraits are things that most Londoners would be unaware of, riding in the seat behind’ ... with classic black taxis facing extinction at the hands of companies like Uber, Oleg Tolstoy has taken intimate, and often uneasy, portraits of London cabbies on the job

The Independent

• A second sinkhole has appeared in Manchester Another sinkhole has emerged in Manchester, less than three weeks after one appeared on a busy main road in the city.

London Evening Standard

• Uber loses key legal battle on home turf as drivers win right to bring class action suitUber drivers have won the right to bring a class-action law suit against the controversial taxi hailing app in a key legal battle that could potentially undermine the company's business model.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Nissan's Sunderland plant chosen to make the next generation JukeThe announcement represents a further £100m investment into the future of UK's biggest car plant in Sunderland

Northern Echo

• Cameron and Osborne to reveal massive North-East jobs boost at Nissan and Hitachi THE Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer will today unveil a massive double jobs boost for the North-East.

Other Regional Press

• Name of Eddie Stobart truck up for auctionThe chance to jump a waiting list thousands of people long and name an iconic Eddie Stobart truck is to be auctioned in Northampton.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Kinetic energy recovery system to be used by HGVs to save fuel consumption European manufacturers Skeleton Technologies and Adgero SARL have developed the world’s first Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) for road freight vehicles. The unique hybrid system is designed to reduce fuel consumption and associated emissions by up to 25%, and is optimised for intermodal road transport solutions. The Adgero Hybrid System consists of a bank of high-power ultracapacitors working alongside an electrically-driven axle, which is mounted under the trailer. The technology is controlled by an intelligent management system that tracks driver input in order to automatically...