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Sunday, 04 April 2010

BBC News

• Arrests over bus stop fatal crashTwo people are arrested following a crash in Birmingham in which a man waiting in a bus shelter is killed.
• Youths stray on to railway linesMore than 100 incidents of trespassing on railway lines in the West Midlands are recorded since the beginning of the year.
• Blackpool's trams back on trackTrams are back on Blackpool's seafront after a five-month closure as part of a £100m revamp of the service.
• Driver killed in road crash namedA motorist who died in a Fife crash involving a minibus carrying school children is named.
• Taxi driver punched in car hijackA taxi driver has been punched and robbed during a vehicle hijacking in Newtownards, County Down.
• Heathrow fire disrupts passengersHundreds of passengers flying in and out of Heathrow have their flights disrupted following a fire at a control tower.

The Herald

• Tram scheme row ramps up a gearEdinburgh™s tram development firm has pressed ahead with a formal dispute against the companies building the system despite feeling they have been unfairly treated by the process.
• PM criticised for lack of leadership over Rosyth planA stalemate over a proposed £500 million development of the Fife port of Rosyth is set to become a local election issue in the Prime Minister™s back yard.

The Observer

• Graeme Swann in drink-drive arrest¢ Bowler had reportedly been out celebrating his birthday¢ England player was released on bail after arrestThe England bowler Graeme Swann has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. The off-spinner was stopped as he returned to his home in the West Bridgford area of Nottingham yesterday morning. He had reportedly been celebrating his 31st birthday, which was last week, before he was stopped.A spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire Police said:

Times Online

• Cruising made easy: no planesThere are two ways to start your cruise holiday. Method Number One goes like this: drive to the airport; queue at check-in; queue at security; dawdle in the lounge; queue at the gate; sit for hours in a cramped plane; experience pangs of existential despair; queue at baggage reclaim; get on a coach; reach the port; board your ship.

Mail Online

• Sorry, Lord Mandelson. You can¿t park your Jag therrrre..! Minister's car gets in tangle with security barrier
• Strike-hit British Airways bosses get £3m shares windfall, at the expense of OUR misery

The Mirror

• Costa 'car gang' held Four Britons are being held in Spain accused of handling luxury cars stolen in the UK and taken to be sold on the Costa del Sol.

Metro

• Roads 'plagued by pointless signs'Language campaigners have said too many pointless signs are springing up next to Britain's roads.

Northern Echo

• Trains halted as car crashes at Darlington railway bridge TRAINS between Darlington and Bishop Auckland were stopped this afternoon after a car lost control and ended up hanging from a railway bridge.

The York Press

• ˜Put brakes on York road tolls™ COUNCILLORS are to be asked to put a red light in the way of congestion charging in York.
• Jarvis employee betrayed and plunged into a nightmare worldFor third-generation York railwayman Phil Dobson, the world seemed to end this week with the crash of his employer. Business editor RON GODFREY speaks to him.

Sunderland Echo

• Car ploughs into family's kitchenA family got a shock when a car crashed in to their home.

Other Regional Press

• ˜Use bus lanes off “peak™ Newport drivers told MOTORISTS in Newport are still not using bus lanes correctly, causing unnecessary traffic queues almost five years after the council reopened them to vehicles outside of peak times, the city council was told.
• Complaints about potholes in Aberdeen car parkMOTORISTS are having to dodge deep potholes in Aberdeen car parks as well as on the roads.
• Aberdeen driver knocked cyclist off bike in row A DRIVER who injured his daughter™s ex-boyfriend by knocking him off his bike with a van in an Aberdeen street has avoided jail.

C.N.N.

• South Korea stops search for missing sailorsA week-long search for dozens of sailors lost when a South Korean warship sunk in waters close to North Korea was called off late Saturday after a request from the families of the missing men.

Washington Post

• Flash, and some nods to recession, at NY auto show NEW YORK -- Teenage car enthusiast Frank Vecchio stood in awe before a Rolls-Royce Ghost with a $301,575 sticker price - admiring a detail he had seen only in a video game.

Other News Sources

• Swann 'arrested' for drink-driving England bowler Graeme Swann has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, according to reports.
• Small plane explodes in crash An aerobatic plane has crashed at an airport in the Brazilian southern city of Lages - killing the pilot.Related StoriesBritish soldier killed in AfghanistanRussian rocket launches from Kazakhstan
• Roads 'plagued by pointless signs'Roads 'plagued by pointless signs'