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Sunday, 28 September 2008

The Herald

• Denholm’s ship comes in with profits of £16mThe Denholm Group yesterday announced it had more than doubled pre-tax profits for the year to December 31 amid tough global economic conditions.

Times Online

• Speeding drivers to be banned on second offenceDrivers will be banned after just two convictions if they exceed the speed limit by 15mph in urban areas or 25mph on motorways under a shake-up of road safety laws.
• ’Privileged access’ lets union lobby over runway planSenior union figures with access to the government have been working with BAA, the airports operator, to promote controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow, although the official consultation ended six months ago.
• Europe's new luxury rail routeThese days, it’s not just reality-TV contestants who go on a long personal journey.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Call for Aberdeen bypass to be scrappedLeading businessman Maitland Mackie yesterday urged Scottish ministers to œhave the courage to scrap the plans for the proposed Aberdeen bypass.

Carlisle News & Star

• Applying the brakes to bike test changesDriving standards chiefs have performed a sudden u-turn on plans that would have ended motorcycle testing in west Cumbria next month.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Plan to bolster sea defencesTens of thousands of tonnes of rocks are to be shipped to Norfolk's coast by Christmas to help bolster defences.

Sunderland Echo

• Tories want to see more ships in portWearside could be alive with ships again if it gets the right investment, says the Tories' Sunderland spokesman.

New Scientist

• Space 'taxis' could cut the cost of spaceflightWith the shuttle soon to retire, NASA is looking to commercial spacecraft to lower the cost of ferrying cargo and crew to the space station (full text available to subscribers)

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• EU approves DSV purchase of ABX LogisticsThe European Union (EU) competition authorities have approved the acquisition of ABX Logistics by global transport and logistics firm DSV.
• UK Ship Register 'continues to grow'More than one million gross tonnes (GT) have been added to the UK Ship Register since the start of 2008, new figures reveal.
• UK road deaths down seven per centThe number of people killed on UK roads has fallen by seven per cent between 2006 and 2007, official data shows.Figures from the Department for Transport (DfT) reveal that road deaths in Britain have reached their lowest level since records began in 1928.

Aviation Industry

• ACE to buy remaining stake in Air Canada, analyst saysA senior air industry analyst says Air Canada's parent is poised to jetison a plan to sell its remaining stake in the airline because of poor travel markets and instead will take the company private again.

Other News Sources

• Advantage 2008: Fuel surcharges on tickets would be 'logistical nightmare'Building fuel surcharges back into ticket prices would be a œlogistical nightmare, the UK general manager for British Airways has admitted.
• German rail privatisation will bring in 4.5 billion eurosbillion euros, less than estimated by the government, according to a Sunday newspaper.The report to be pubished in Welt am Sonntag quotes confidential analyses by 14 banks involved in the operation.Wh...
• Official opening for China's A320 line in TianjinChina's Airbus A320 final assembly line at Tianjin was due to be officially opened on 28 September, as production of the first locally built airframe gathers...