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Sunday, 19 September 2010

BBC News

• Memorial for 'British Schindler'A statue is unveiled at a town railway station in honour of the man dubbed the
• Motor racing with a differenceMike Bushell takes a look at racing with electric cars.
• Man injured in Belfast ship fallA man is rescued after falling 20 metres into a grain hold on a ship moored at Belfast.
• Bail for fuel laundering suspectsFour County Armagh men arrested as part of cross-border customs raids targeting illegal fuel laundering are released on bail.

The Telegraph

• Boris Johnson forces phone firms to share Tube costs The UK's biggest mobile phone companies - including Vodafone and O2 - are to share the £100m-plus cost of installing and maintaining a mobile phone signal across the London Underground network after Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, personally intervened.
• Blue badge abuse is out of control The abuse of disabled parking passes is "out of control" with more than half of the blue badges in some parts of the country being used illegally, officials have warned.

Daily Express

• Transport tops UK strike leagueTRANSPORT and education are the most strike-prone sectors in the UK, new figures reveal.

Mail Online

• Passengers face 90 minutes of discomfort as train company axes toilets from popular routeIf you travel between Brighton and Portsmouth you might find it useful to visit the smallest room first, as Southern Railway plans to withdraw all trains with toilets on board the hour and a half long service.
• £2.8m of tax is wasted on traffic radio we can't hearTraffic Radio broadcasts live traffic updates 24 hours a day on the internet and DAB digital radio. But of the 32 million vehicles on UK roads, less than 500,000 have a DAB radio.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Gateshead woman escapes jail after road crash THIS drink driver, who caused multiple crashes while five times the limit, has escaped an immediate prison sentence.

Other Regional Press

• New Slinky service launched A DOOR-TO-DOOR Slinky bus service has launched serving people in Bridgwater, West and East Quantoxhead, Kilve, Holford, Stringston and Stogursey.
• Bus shelter idea in Ilminster faces funding difficulties AN INVESTIGATION into the possibility of a new bus shelter in Ilminster hit a stumbling block this week.
• Baby girl locked in car FIREFIGHTERS were called to free a baby girl locked in a car in Princess Street, Barnstaple, at about 1pm today.
• Blackwood car cruiser curfew causes drop in complaints COMPLAINTS about car cruisers in Blackwood have dropped massively since the High Street was closed to traffic on Thursday nights a year ago this week.
• Critical report 'buried' on jams, says author Oxford City Council has been accused of covering up a traffic report because it did not like what it was being told.
• Teenager drove at 110mph on A96 Aberdeen roadAN ABERDEEN sheriff has warned a teenage driver who hit speeds of up to 110mph that he could be locked up.

International Herald Tribune

• General Motors to Test Electric Cruze in S. KoreaNEW YORK (AP) -- General Motors says it will launch a test fleet of electric cars in South Korea as it continues to develop battery-powered models of its Chevrolet Cruze.
• Canadian Convicted Of Lying In Air India Bomb CaseVANCOUVER (Reuters) - A Canadian man who admitted helping make the bomb that destroyed Air India Flight 182 was found guilty of perjury on Saturday during the trial of two other men accused of history's deadliest airline bombing.

Other News Sources

• AA wants fuel duty hike shelvedThe AA has urged the Government to shelve next month's hike in fuel duty after warning that motorists face a new upswing in pump prices.