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Sunday, 10 May 2009

BBC News

• Pirates free UK ship for ransomSomali pirates release a British-owned cargo ship after more than a month following the payment of a ransom.

The Observer

• Fears grow for future of rail expansionThe government's railway budget is threatening to unravel amid crisis talks over franchises and the revelation that First Great Western can walk away from a 10-year deal without footing the entire £1.1bn bill.
• Cash worries threaten Chávez dreamPresident Hugo Chávez has sent troops to seize boats and facilities owned by oil service companies as part of a

The Telegraph

• Speed-restricted car: a reviewWhat Transport for London did not warn me about, as I became the first journalist to test-drive the prototype car equipped with Intelligent Speed Adaptation, was the reaction of other drivers.
• Speedcurbed cars launched in Government trial New incar technology which forces motorists to obey the speed limit will be unveiled in a major Governmentbacked trial to be announced on Monday.
• Speedrestricted car: a reviewThey said the speedcurbing technology would make it impossible to get a ticket.

Times Online

• Silent electric cars get a Clarkson growlELECTRIC cars may be the transport of the future, but their engines will reverberate to the sound of the past.
• Car Shrink Q Can you settle an argument between me and my city-dwelling friend? Which are the better drivers: country motorists, who are used to speed, dark roads, few markings and using their initiative, or town drivers, who wouldn’t know what to do in an emergency unless there was a road sign to tell them?
• Hypermiling: it's the green way of driving Think motor sports are all about high-speed, ear-splitting revs and the smell of burning rubber? Then think again. Wayne Gerdes is pioneering a different kind of motor racing that involves driving very slowly and carefully for thousands of miles. And his latest “race” has resulted in what he claims to be a new world record.
• Tata blasts British industryRATAN TATA, the Indian industrialist whose group owns Corus and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), has attacked the government™s record on manufacturing, saying it œdoes not appear to care about the sector.
• Lufthansa™s BMI bid hit by cash rowTHE Lufthansa takeover of BMI British Midland has been thrown into doubt by a row with Sir Michael Bishop, the British airline™s founder, over the injection of fresh money into the company.

Mail Online

• British Airways axes 100 pilots to save £20mBritish Airways is getting rid of more than 100 pilots with pay-offs of up to £150,000 each because of a huge fall in passenger numbers.

The Mirror

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Daily Post (North Wales)

• Assembly chiefs head to LlandudnoWELSH Assembly chiefs yesterday invited the public onto a bus to learn more about their work.

Liverpool Echo

• Merseyside Police cars spotted with out-of-date tax discsRED-faced police chiefs promised to review procedures today – after three patrol cars parked outside a station had out-of-date tax discs.

The York Press

• York's ftr off the road YORK™S controversial ftr bus is being withdrawn from service on evenings and at weekends by operators First.

Wales Online

• hghfdggf73 ghhboldDRIVERS fed-up with delays at roadworks in mid-Wales have lashed out at workers, with one motorist saying he would shoot them.

Peterborough Telegraph

• 'Short' car park machine will stayAn unusually short car park ticket machine in Norfolk may stay after it became an unlikely tourist attraction.

C.N.N.

• Why cutting business travel could be a false economyWith the global economic downturn biting hard, corporations everywhere are looking around for costs to save, budgets to trim. It's thus little surprise that one area to suffer already has been business travel.

Washington Post

• Buyers Are on the Auto Lot, but the Financing Is Not The banks need to loosen up. That's the message from a month's worth of interviews with consumers and automobile dealers nationwide. It's also the conclusion of a new study by Accenture, a global management consulting company.