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Sunday, 16 November 2008

BBC News

• Prayers offered for road victimsChurch leaders prepare for a service to mark a world day of remembrance for victims of road crashes.

Financial Times

• EasyJet's founder risks grounding the share priceSir Stelios Haji-Ioannou must have had a brain transplant. In a week when scientists showed that entrepreneurs' grey matter was more active than that of ordinary...
• Anatomy Of A DelaySeptember 3, 16:39 - Delays expected It was a rainy Wednesday in September, and revenge was inadvertent - and fleeting. I had arrived nearly 40 minutes late for my...
• Brand interests range from car rental to cafesEasyGroup, the private holding company owned by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, is best-known for its most successful venture, the low-cost airline EasyJet. But the group...
• Sir Stelios looks to take controls at EasyJetRelations between Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his most lucrative creation, EasyJet, are turning ugly. The EasyJet founder, who created the airline in 1995 and paraded...

Times Online

• Boris Johnson ready to sue over third Heathrow runway Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has threatened to take legal action against the government if ministers go ahead with plans to build a third runway at Heathrow.
• Easyjet directors ready to repel founder Stelios DIRECTORS at Easyjet plan to thwart Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s dramatic attempt to change the airline’s strategy by recruiting at least one more independent non-executive to the board.

Daily Express

• Virgin talks on Gatwick consortiumVIRGIN ATLANTIC yesterday confirmed it was in talks with other airlines, including easyJet, about forming a consortium to bid for the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick.
• Stelios rocks easyJet by seeking dividendEASYJET founder Stelios Haji- Ioannou is threatening to make himself chairman of the budget airline unless his demands for a major change of strategy are met.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Wrexham refuses to be sidelined by rail serviceCOUNCIL chiefs in Wrexham have prepared alternative plans for a new express rail service from North to South Wales, after earlier plans avoided the town.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Union anger after Stagecoach imposes pay deal on workersUNION leaders reacted angrily yesterday to a pay rise imposed by Stagecoach Bluebird, warning that it would not affect a decision to strike on Friday.

Sunderland Echo

• Capital rail link changesSunderland's rail link to London will be hit by engineering works on Sunday.

International Herald Tribune

• Green is for sissiesAs the world begins to shun dirty fuels, Exxon Mobil, undaunted, says oil will power economies for decades.

Aviation Industry

• October traffic figures BAA's airportsBAA™s seven UK airports handled a total of 12.4 million passengers during October, a drop of 6.0% over the same period last year...

Other News Sources

• Workers march to stop Europe-wide rail break-upThousands of rail workers staged a demonstration in France’s capital city yesterday in protest over European Union plans for the wholesale sell-off of national railways.
• Air traffic capacity crunch in sight despite falling demandWhile the current economic slowdown continues to take its toll on air traffic, the EU will nevertheless face an airport capacity crunch in the near future, experts say.

EIN News Subscription

• Plenty in the tank ... at the launch of Innovation and Sustainable Transport Centre, the group's enthusiastic technology director outlined ... technology that will keep us on the road when the 2009 slowdown is little more ... the EC-funded project to co-ordinate and plan European hydrogen research and demonstration activity. 'Hydrogen is ...
• Heavyweights line up for first round at York Central ... Developments are lining up to partner Network Rail on the 1bn redevelopment of 86 acres ... will also be improvements to the National Railway Museum and a new transport interchange. There may also be a park-and-ride ...
• EU updates blacklist of airlines banned from European skies ... ninth update of the so-called blacklist of airlines banned from flying into the countries of ... Antonio Tajani, Commission Vice-President in charge of transport. "The European Commission will pursue actively its ... detected safety deficiencies. The commission, together with EU member states, will visit both carriers before ...
• British Airways: London City customers to breeze through JFK ... According to British Airways, the west Ireland airport is the first European airport to be granted pre-clearance facilities for ... was made today in Shannon by Irish Transport Minister Noel Dempsey ahead of a formal ...