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Sunday, 16 August 2009

BBC News

• Call to limit taxi drivers' hoursRoad safety charity Brake calls on the government to limit the number of hours taxi drivers can work before they take a break.

The Independent

• Cameron™s 60 private flights from business leaders David Cameron's attempts to detoxify his party are dealt a further blow today with details revealed for the first time of his extensive travel by private jet and helicopter funded by multi-millionaire businessmen.

Times Online

• 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.
• Network Rail in talks over major revampProposals for a radical shake-up of Network Rail are to be thrashed out at meetings between Rick Haythornthwaite, the chairman, and its members over two days of meetings next month.

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.

Forbes

• Tiniest Cars On The Lot Cash For Clunkers may be incentive to downgrade to a sedan, but the smallest vehicles may offer more bang for the buck.

International Herald Tribune

• Ransom Sought for Missing ShipIt was not immediately clear if the ransom demand was legitimate, and the whereabouts of the Arctic Sea, its 15 crew members and its cargo of timber remain a mystery.
• Boeing Halts Production of Flawed Dreamliner PartWrinkles in the high-tech materials covering parts made by an Italian supplier have raised new concerns about when the new plane will fly.

Railnews

• News: Grand Central starts another ’open access’ service THE ’open access’ train operating company Grand Central is to introduce its eighth service linking the Durham Coast, North Yorkshire and London from Monday 17 August.

Aviation Industry

• Republic airborne on Midwest expansionMidwest resumed nonstop service from Milwaukee to Los Angeles and Louisville, Ky., in early August.

Other News Sources

• Fast FESCO ship sale seenFESCO is likely to run losses of at least $72M this year, which could force a fire sale of its ships, an investment bank™s report said today.
• Futuristic Taxis at Heathrow.Terminal 5 at London Heathrow is planning to soon unveil 21 futuristic, environmentally friendly, electric taxis that function without a driver. It is hoped that the vehicles will be ready within a year and will take people into the terminals from the business car parks. The new cabs can carry 4 people and reach speeds of up [...]
• Teletext Holidays rubbishes Icelolly.com's 'takeover' bidTeletext Holidays has denied claims by marketing portal icelolly.com that it is planning to buy the group. Icelolly.com issued a statement yesterday...