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Sunday, 11 July 2010

BBC News

• Lorry driver injured in collisionA driver is seriously injured after his lorry crossed a road and was in collision with a car and a pick-up truck towing a caravan.
• Armed police arrest men on planeArmed police board a plane to arrest two men minutes before it was due to leave Manchester Airport.
• Heathrow fire site cordoned offAbout 50 firefighters remain at a warehouse at Heathrow Airport tackling the remnants of a blaze.
• Airlines 'fail to refund taxes'Airlines are accused of keeping millions of pounds for themselves which ought to be refunded to passengers.

The Herald

• Tourism boss: volcanic ash threat is an ˜opportunity™ for the industryMike‚Cantlay, the new ­chairman of national tourism marketing agency VisitScotland is urging the Scottish industry to œmake the most of the threat of further disruption caused by ash from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull.

Daily Record

• Man dies after head-on collision between trucks A MAN died and another was seriously injured after a head-on collision between two lorries.

Mail Online

• Work from home to keep cars off the road: Coalition's plan to cut traffic congestionBusiness will offer employees the chance to work from home more often, thereby reducing the chance of severe traffic jams
• Sssh! You're looking at Britain's £800m supercar secret weaponWhere in the world would you find a man gambling a fortune in a recession on a spectacular new supercar (and a £40 million factory to build it in)? As Ben Oliver reports exclusively for Live, somewhere suitably secretive and chillingly futuristic... in Woking, Surrey.

Manchester Evening News

• Pictures: Motorists play football on M60 during two-hour jam Motorists stuck in long delays on the M60 and M62 motorways had a game of football while they waited for the traffic to clear.
• Police told 'catch the bus' to save money Chief Constable Peter Fahy is forcing officers to hop on buses to save money. Police are being told to use buses, trams and trains instead of driving patrol cars as the Greater Manchester force struggles to meet a £6.9m budget cut.

The News (Portsmouth)

• Visiting vicar's wife breaks leg in bus crash dramaA VICAR'S wife is recovering in hospital after being run over by a bus in a busy town centre.

The York Press

• Calls to close ˜rat-run road™ in Heworth A STREET in Heworth may be closed to through traffic following road safety fears from residents.
• Haxby rail station plan may be put back 10 years GOING back to the drawing board on plans for a new railway station for York could set it back more than a decade, transport chiefs have warned.
• Planning for bad winter on York's roads YORK™S response to severe winter weather could be improved if councillors agree new plans at a meeting later this month.
• Drink-driver ˜having worst day of his life™ A DRINK-DRIVER from York told police he was having the œworst day of his life when he reversed into a patrol car and left an officer with whiplash injuries.

Other Regional Press

• Tunnel improvements in Kings LangleySafety campaigners toasted success today (Saturday) after a 40 year campaign for road improvements in Kings Langley.
• Ride safely, motorcyclists are urged œEnjoy Devon™s roads, but get home safely is the message being given to all road users this summer as the county council launches new advice for motorcyclists.
• Kidlington pedestrian zone plan back on agenda PLANS to pedestrianise Kidlington™s busiest shopping area could move a step closer if district councillors agree to provide £25,000 for the project.
• UPDATE: Security alert at Didcot Railway StationFirst Great Western closed Didcot Parkway because of a security alert this afternoon.
• Teen tried to steal Suzuki 4x4 from showroom THE case against a banned teenage driver who took his dad™s car before driving it to a showroom to steal a 4x4 has been delayed.

Forbes

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Washington Post

• Airline passengers get a chance to be heard on proposed regulations If you've ever complained about air travel -- and who hasn't? -- then here's your best chance in a generation to do something about it.
• FAA downgrades safety violation over D.C. area skies A business jet crossed into the potentially dangerous wake turbulence of a United Airlines flight bound for Europe on Tuesday in what the Federal Aviation Administration initially recorded as the 23rd operational error this year by the region's air traffic controllers.