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Saturday, 15 August 2009

BBC News

• LDV in 'exclusive' sale talksVan firm LDV, and Birmingham Pressing Limited in which LDV has a stake, are talking to one party exclusively hoping to sell the business, say the administrators.
• Pakistan-Turkey rail trial startsPakistan is launching its first international freight train service from Islamabad to Istanbul, covering 6,500km.
• Porsche shares up on Qatar dealShares in Porsche rose after the Gulf state of Qatar agreed to take a stake in the the German carmaker.
• Tourists face car hire shortageEuropean holidaymakers are facing bigger bills for hire cars - or risk not getting one at all - due to a shortage of vehicles.
• Government to lend Airbus £340mThe government is to give plane manufacturer Airbus up to £340m in loans, securing 5,000 jobs in the UK.

Times Online

• Mandelson secures jobs at UK Airbus sites despite cutting A 350 fundingLord Mandelson has secured thousands of British jobs at Airbus, despite the UK cutting its financial aid to the company™s next project.
• German group to roll with Stobart™s rail operationsStobart Group, the transport and logistics company famous for its Eddie Stobart trucking division, has handed the running of its rail operations to a division of Deutsche Bahn, of Germany.
• Oil giants destroy rainforests to make palm oil diesel for motoristsFuel companies are accelerating the destruction of rainforest by secretly adding palm oil to diesel that is sold to millions of British motorists.

Daily Express

• Airbus funding secures 5,000 UK jobsTHE Government loaned £340million to European plane builder Airbus yesterday to save 5,000 British jobs. The money will help develop the company's new wide-bodied A350 aircraft but is believed to be half the amount it was seeking.
• GM hope for VauxhallGENERAL Motors and the German government held out hope for Vauxhall workers by playing down fears the US carmaker's European arm will be sold to Canadian group Magna.

Daily Record

• Edinburgh tram firm faces legal action over six-month disputeLEGAL action is being taken against the consortium carrying out a £545 million tram project in Scotland's capital, it has emerged.

Mail Online

• Drug drivers to be targeted with 'drugaliser' roadside tests
• Missing 'ghost ship' Arctic Sea spotted off Cape Verde... but Russia says it's a false alarm

Airwise News

• Stobart launches new Spanish Rail Service Stobart Rail, part of the Stobart Group, and DB Schenker Rail (UK) have announced the launch of temperature controlled intermodal services from Valencia to the UK via the Channel Tunnel. The service will offer a shared multi-client train for new and existing customers of both companies. Stobart said that by working together, all road and rail assets will achieve high levels of utilisation, thereby enabling a commercially sustainable door-to-door solution for companies involved in the export of fresh products.

London Evening Standard

• 'Full service' as rail strike called off

The York Press

• York's first Car Free Day to take place on September 22 THOUSANDS of motorists across York are being urged to walk, cycle or take the bus next month, when the city holds its first œcar free day.
• Cyclist recovering after horror collision on Malton Road A CYCLIST from York is still in hospital after being seriously injured in a horror smash on one of the city™s busiest roads.

Wales Online

• Government loans Airbus £340mThe Government is to back an Airbus A350 aircraft project with a £340 million loan, it was announced today.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Cycling in Leeds made easier COMMENT ON THIS STORYIt's the news cyclists in Leeds have been waiting for. But will a planned new network of cycle paths really persuade the rest of us to leave the car at home? Grant Woodwar

Blackpool Gazette

• Crash at accident hot spotST ANNES residents have made a desperate appeal for road improvements after yet another crash at an accident hotspot.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Village transport company is boughtAbout 70 jobs have been saved at a haulage business in a Suffolk village after a buyer was found.

Reading Evening Post

• Rail fares up - but not to PaddingtonSome fares on First Great Western trains will be going up by up to 20 per cent – but passengers from Reading to Paddington will not be hit.

Washington Post

• History of the Boeing 787 -- Boeing Co.'s discovery of microscopic wrinkles in the fuselage skin of its best-selling, new-technology 787 is the latest of many setbacks for the program over the years.
• Toyota Leads in Cash for Clunkers Program The biggest single beneficiary of the $3 billion
• Boeing Hits a Hitch in Dreamliner Fuselage Boeing said it has halted production of large fuselage sections for the 787

Railnews

• News: High speed services to Kent so successful they are expanded NEW high speed preview services between Kent and London have been so popular Southeastern is putting on more services from and to new destinations in the county.

Transport for London

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Aviation Industry

• Republic beats Southwest for FrontierRepublic Airways Holdings won the bankruptcy court auction for Frontier Airlines on Thursday, buying the Denver-based carrier for almost $108.8 million after Southwest Airlines Co.'s rival bid was rejected.
• Jet Blue Offers A Month of Unlimited Flights For $599JetBlue Airways is offering an 'all you can fly' deal. The airline is selling all-you-can-fly tickets for $599 per passenger, allowing for unlimited travel between Sept.

Other News Sources

• Boeing to bolster 737 windscreens for bird protectionBoeing will increase the bird strike tolerance of its newly remodeled next-generation Boeing 737. According to a statement issued by windscreen manufacturer...
• Stobart switches UK rail freight contract to SchenkerThe rail division of logistics provider Stobart Group Ltd (LSE: STOB) has appointed DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd as its main provider of rail freight services.
• Southern Trains readies VCCP for campaignSouthern Trains has placed its integrated marketing business with Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest with a brief to reverse a decline in passenger numbers on its network.
• Greyhound bus brand set for UK launchTransport company FirstGroup is set to unveil its plans to bring the US Greyhound bus brand to the UK.
• Airbus not aloneAirbus has received £340m in government loans to help secure future A350 XWB activities in the south-west region.