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Sunday, 31 August 2008

The Observer

• Uninsured drivers risk having cars crushedA clampdown on uninsured drivers to be launched this autumn could help cut premiums for other motorists, ministers will claim this week.

The Scotsman

• Collapsed airline's debt tops £20mBosses at a collapsed transatlantic budget airline said its debts are likely to total £20-£25million.

The Telegraph

• Train fares set to rise as ticket system overhauledTrain companies have been accused of introducing stealth fare rises following a Sunday Telegraph investigation into a new rail ticketing system to be introduced next week.
• David Cameron's bike woes continue as brakes failTory leader's relationship with his stolen bike takes another turn as he discovers brakes were broken upon its return.

Times Online

• Ryanair fuel ration angers pilotsRyanair pilots have denounced as “insane” attempts to pressurise them into flying with less fuel by imposing a cap on their safety reserves.
• Zoom crashes and burns It should have been a great week for John Boyle, one of the investors in transatlantic airline Zoom, but as his football club Motherwell looked forward to flying off to new destinations in this year’s Uefa Cup, the low cost carrier was stuck firmly on the ground.
• Off to France on a flying bike It’s 5am on a still summer day on the south coast of England and a man on a bicycle is gazing out to sea. Attached to his bicycle are a pair of propellers; above him is a miniature zeppelin.

International Herald Tribune

• Utah embraces natural gas for vehiclesUtah has become the first American state to experience broad consumer interest in running cars on clean natural gas.

Washington Post

• Want a Better Way to Power Your Car? It's a Breeze. Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country's wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion we may soon be paying annually for imported oil. But part two of Pickens's plan -- to move natural gas out of electricity production and use it to fuel cars instead -- just doesn't make sense.