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Monday, 23 August 2010

BBC News

• Cycling lessons from Mexico City The Mexican capital is a surprisingly bike-friendly city, but are the British nice enough to follow its lead on our roads?
• Council urges caution on slowing isles' mainland links Passengers would not accept longer ferry sailings between the mainland and the Western Isles to cut CO2 emissions, according to the islands' council.
• Train 'rolled backwards on track' in Cumbria There has been another incident involving a runaway train in an area in Cumbria where four men were killed six years ago, it has emerged.
• Train-maker Bombardier holds recruitment fair A recruitment drive in Derbyshire has attracted a large turnout of people looking for work.
• Salisbury traders raise fears over parking charge plan Proposals to increase parking charges in parts of Wiltshire have angered traders in Salisbury.
• Garages 'fail to spot car faults'An undercover investigation into UK car garages suggests the vast majority miss simple mechanical faults.

Financial Times

• US reviews export rules for BAEThe US state department will formulate a company specific œpolicy to address export licence approvals for BAE Systems and its subsidiaries following an analysis of the UK defence group™s guilty plea to criminal charges in March and discussions with BAE representatives

The Guardian

• EasyJet taken to task over wheelchair policy Budget airline's weight restrictions on mobility equipment mean that many disabled passengers are unable to fly, critics say

The Herald

• Forth Road Bridge owner still cautious over hopes of a clean bill of healthThe owner of the Forth Road Bridge has sought to dampen expectations that it will be given a clean bill of health within the next two years, despite evidence that anti-corrosion measures are working effectively.
• Anger as cabs lose school runsGlasgow Taxis fears 150 of its drivers will be forced out of business after it has lost 60% of its council-funded school runs.

The Scotsman

• Drivers face work car park chargesCouncils across the country are pushing ahead with plans to charge for parking at workplaces, it has emerged.

The Telegraph

• The truth about Boris's London cycle hire scheme, revealed by pretty graphs you can play withLondoners who use Boris Johnson’s cycle hire scheme are 9 to 6 commuters, midday errand runners and fair-weather cyclists who take the tube or bus when it’s a bit cold and wet. How do I know? I’ve seen the data
• Veterans 'to receive free public transport' Veterans are set to receive free public transport, better schools for their children and the opportunity to retrain as teachers under plans being drawn up by ministers to restore the military covenant.
• British Airways changes 'discriminatory' seating policy for men British Airways has changed its seating policy after a businessman complained of being treated like a "child molester" when sitting next to a boy he did not know.
• Motorists face £250-a-year tax to park at work Motorists across the country could be charged hundreds of pounds a year to park at work after councils were ordered by the Government to find new ways of raising money.

Daily Express

• NATIONALISE TO END RAIL CHAOS MY UNCLE Mackie was my favourite uncle and was a railway porter at London’s Euston station.
• HOLIDAY POSTERS GET A NEW PLATFORM THE glorious golden age of railway advertising is celebrated in an exhibition of posters at the National Railway Museum in York.

Network Rail

• ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETE AT HUDDERSFIELD STATION

Birmingham Mail

• Compensation for High Speed Rail families "not enough" say Lichfield campaigners CAMPAIGNERS against £30 billion High Speed Rail plans for the Midlands have dismissed the £50 million compensation pot offered to those affected as “not good enough”.

Derby Telegraph

• Hundreds turn out at Bombardier recruitment fair SCORES of job hunters turned out at Pride Park yesterday, hoping to secure a position at Bombardier.
• Controversial plan for rail interchange and industrial estate hits buffers A CONTROVERSIAL project to build a rail interchange and industrial estate on a swathe of land in south Derbyshire has fallen at the final hurdle.

London Evening Standard

• Signal failures spark Monday morning misery for Tube commuters Tube travellers endured Monday morning misery today after signal failures caused the part suspension of two lines and delays to two others.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Have your say on road pricing ONLY three years ago, 1.8 million people signed a petition against road pricing. But the European Union wishes to introduce it across Europe. It also wishes to take over many of our main roads as a European network, run by unaccountable committees.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Rosyth passenger ferry to be scrapped after ’significant losses’ The Rosyth to Zeebrugge passenger ferry is to be scrapped, the operator said yesterday. The DFDS Seaways passenger service between Scotland and Belgium will cease by the end of the year though the firm intends to enhance its freight service on the route.

Other Regional Press

• Only a week left for under-19s to get £1 all day bus travel£1 bus travel for under-19s throughout West Yorkshire in August with Metro Active. Plus the new Pound Racer game.

Railway Gazette

• AECOM buys Tritech Rail UK: International technical and management support services company AECOM has acquired Tritech Rail, a civil engineering consultancy specialising in rail infrastructure surveying, design and electrification work. 'We are now able to offer clients a broader range of services including infrastructure surveying and design, route clearance and structure gauging analysis, project and technical support from feasibility through to commissioning', said David Watters, Managing Director of AECOM's European Transportation business. Wigan-based Tritech was founded in 1999 as a permanent-way engineering c...

Other News Sources

• TOWN SHOWS SUPPORT FOR RAIL SERVICE CAMPAIGNERS CAMPAIGNERS have taken to the streets to help improve train services at a railway station. Over 400 people have signed a petition demanding more First TransPennine Express trains stop at Dalton railway station.
• Vital Streatham and Tulse Hill train service may not be axed A direct train service from Streatham and Tulse Hill to key transport hubs in North London may no longer be scrapped.
• Buckshaw railway station: Work to start next month work is set to start next month on a long-awaited multi-million pound railway station for Buckshaw.