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Sunday, 28 March 2010

BBC News

• Tory attack over strike responseDavid Cameron says that trade unions have
• Restored line opens to passengersSteam train services return for passengers on a stretch of railway in Scotland after more than 50 years.
• UK low carbon uptake 'too slow'The UK has been
• Strike disrupts Scottish flightsBritish Airways flight schedules between Glasgow and London Heathrow are disrupted by strike action.
• Second BA strike disrupts flightsBritish Airways cancels almost a hundred flights from Heathrow during the first day of a second strike by cabin crew.

The Herald

• Results of Aberdeen city centre consultation delayedThe group that commissioned a public consultation on oil magnate Sir Ian Wood™s plans to transform Aberdeen city centre has refused to reveal the key finding about whether the public supports it or not, more than three weeks after the consultation finished.

The Independent

• BA 'will fly 75% of passengers' during strike British Airways cabin crew mounted picket lines outside airports for the second weekend in a row today as another wave of industrial action began in a bitter row over jobs and cost cutting.
• Third of flights cut as union warns of more strikes More than a third of all British Airways flights out of Heathrow were cancelled yesterday as the dispute between the airline and its cabin crew crippled Terminal 5 amid accusations of subterfuge.

The Telegraph

• British Airways union threatens more strikes after Easter Unite warns of further strikes after Easter unless there is a breakthrough in a bitter row with the airline over cuts.

Times Online

• CO2 ruling may halt new airport runwaysCAMPAIGNERS will seek to block airport expansion across Britain following a High Court judgment which criticised the government™s decision to build a third runway at Heathrow.
• BA strikers to give Gordon Brown ˜a kicking™THE LEADER of the militants behind the British Airways cabin crew strikes yesterday said he wanted to give Gordon Brown a œgood kicking by embarking on further industrial action in the run-up to the election.
• Drive of the Week: Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid It is astonishing to see the efforts car manufacturers are making to rush hybrids to the road despite knowing they offer no long-term solution to saving the planet. Hybrid is, at best, a bridging technology, spanning the gap between our fossil-fuelled present and our all-electric or hydrogen future.
• Russians prepare £1bn grab for UK fuel suppliesGAZPROM, Russia™s state-owned gas giant, is preparing an audacious bid to become one of the biggest fuel suppliers in Britain.
• Falklands oil fever cools as Desire Petroleum well flopsTHE first well drilled off the Falkland Islands in 12 years has struck oil ” but not enough to be commercially viable.
• Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou wins Easyjet dividend battleDIRECTORS at Easyjet have quietly agreed to pay a dividend to shareholders, ending a long dispute with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the low-cost airline.

Reuters News

• Union threatens more strikes at British AirwaysLONDON (Reuters) - The union representing British Airways' striking cabin crew warned on Saturday that it would stage more stoppages unless there was a breakthrough in the dispute over pay and jobs.

Daily Record

• Rail chiefs probe teenager's electric shock ordeal at station TWO Scot Rail workers face the sack after a teenager suffered an electric shock when he climbed on top of a train in a station.

London Evening Standard

• Striking BA staff mount picketsBritish Airways cabin crew have mounted picket lines outside airports for the second weekend in a row as another wave of industrial action began in a bitter row over jobs and cost cutting.
• Weather hampers sailors rescue bidMilitary divers plunged into the waters near South Korea's tense maritime border with North Korea to search for 46 missing marines from a naval ship that sank, but were hampered by fierce waves and high winds, officials said.
• Unions warn of further BA strikesUnion bosses representing British Airways cabin crew are threatening further strikes after Easter unless there is a breakthrough in a bitter row over cuts that sparked more industrial action this weekend.

Metro

• Rail dispute talks set to resumeTalks aimed at averting a crippling strike by thousands of rail workers will resume early next week as the Prime Minister voiced optimism that a row over jobs could be resolved.
• Unions warn of further BA strikesUnion bosses representing British Airways cabin crew are threatening further strikes after Easter unless there is a breakthrough in a bitter row over cuts that sparked more industrial action this weekend.

The News (Portsmouth)

• Bus crash in SouthbourneA bus and a car collided outside a caravan shop.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Passengers take train trip down memory lanePASSENGERS yesterday took a journey along a stretch of railway that has not been used since swingeing rail cuts in the 1960s.

Burnley Express

• Safety barrier installed after Burnley teen killed on motorway WORK will soon be completed on motorway safety fencing where a Burnley teenager was knocked down and killed three years ago.

Other Regional Press

• Concern over roadside car sales DEVON County Council™s Trading Standards Service is concerned with the increasing number of cars being offered for sale on the side of road.
• Leicestershire to London services will run during rail strikeTrain bosses say day-time services from Leicestershire to London will run as normal during the national rail strike. Track operator Network...
• Councils get community transport cash boost GWENT councils have received a boost to their funding for community transport.
• 3,250 drivers caught in Dorset's No Excuse campaign A TOTAL of 3,250 drivers have been caught in the first two months of a hard-hitting safety campaign to reduce serious accidents on Dorset™s roads.
• 50 new jobs on Portland with Sunseeker expansion FIFTY jobs will be coming on Portland as a result of Sunseeker International expansion within the next 18 months.

Railway Gazette

• Tiger grants support infrastructure upgradesUSA: Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced the 51 transport projects which have been selected for Tiger grants under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act on February 17. The largest rail grants awarded under the $1·5bn Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery federal stimulus programme went to support rail infrastructure upgrades and capacity expansion programmes. The biggest rail grants are: $105m towards Norfolk Southern™s development of intermodal facilities in Memphis and Birmingham on the Crescent Corridor from Louisiana to New Jersey. $100m for the Cr...

Other News Sources

• BA cabin crew plan to step up strike actionMilitant British Airways cabin crew union leaders last night threatened more disruption after Easter unless a peace deal is reached
• Busiest speed cameras in Sussex netted £1,000 per day The three busiest speed cameras in Sussex netted more than £400,000 last year.
• BA strike causes further disruptionTravellers out of Scotland's main airports face flight cancellations as British Airways strike gets under way.
• Labour MPs at odds over East Lancashire bus lane TWO Labour MPs are at odds over the £50milliom bus lane that has been given the green light by ministers.
• Millions to improve town bus servicesQUICKER bus journeys could be on the way in Hartlepool.