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Sunday, 20 July 2008

The Telegraph

• Labour's car tax rises hit 5.6m more motorists New car tax rises will hit five million more drivers than the Government has previously admitted.

Times Online

• Think tank: Dump high-energy transport plans (Ireland)The Irish government and all the opposition parties are agreed that whatever cuts are made in the state’s current spending due to falling revenues and the threat of recession, infrastructural investment must go on. That’s fine in principle, but most of the projects on the drawing board were developed under business-as-usual, the-economy-will-continue-to-grow assumptions.
• BAA invented ’green’ jumbo to help win Heathrow caseBAA, the operator of Heathrow, used the low emissions figures of a non-existent green jumbo to help clinch the environmental case for a third runway.
• Emirates flies the paperless plane HIGH oil prices have spurred Emirates, the Gulf airline, to make its Airbus A380 superjumbos paperless planes.
• Brakes put on airport growth PLANS to expand airports in southeast England are in disarray after ministers unexpectedly put off a decision to allow an increase in passengers at Stansted in Essex.