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Sunday, 12 December 2010

BBC News

• Coach overturns on motorway exitSeventeen people are taken to hospital with injuries including broken bones, after a coach overturns on the M40 in Oxfordshire.
• Grounded submarine 'breaks down'A nuclear-powered submarine which ran aground off Skye in October had to return to port again because of a defect during sea trials, the MoD says.
• Minister resigns over snow chaosScotland's beleaguered Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson resigns after the country was brought to a standstill by severe weather.
• Airbus exec 'under investigation'A top executive at European planemaker Airbus is placed under formal investigation for insider trading by French authorities, reports suggest.

Financial Times

• Scotland™s transport minister resignsStewart Stevenson faced days of pressure after much of central Scotland™s road network was brought to a standstill

The Herald

• Snow spoils party as Stagecoach staff wave off chairmanStagecoach waved goodbye to chairman Sir Robert Speirs after more than 15 years on the board, including eight as chairman, when it unveiled its latest financial results this week.
• Hauliers: ˜our help should have been accepted™Days spent immobilised by snowy and icy road conditions cost the Scottish road haulage sector around £3m per day in wasted running costs, according to new figures provided by the Scottish Freight Transport Association.

The Independent

• Transport minister resigns over snow chaos Scotland's transport minister resigned yesterday following criticism of his handling of travel problems caused by the poor weather.
• Boring? The number 23 bus? Never! Geoff Lloyd didn't mess around when it came to picking his subject for Boring 2010. Short of talking about the East Coast railway's rolling stock, bus routes were probably the dullest-sounding topic he could muster. Likewise, when Ed Ross wanted an item of food to taste-test in front of a roomful of people he settled on milk, because, well, he figured scotch eggs or pork pies would have been a bit racy.

Birmingham Mail

• Revamped Moor Street Station launches new London journeys THE first train has set off from a restored platform at Birmingham’s historic Moor Street railway station following an exciting multi-million pound investment.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Rail passes will top £1,000 in price hike Train and bus passengers in the Bradford district have hit out at inflation-busting fare increases after it emerged that some annual travel passes will top the £1,000 mark in 2011.

Manchester Evening News

• £300k to shut tram stop as new one is built a quarter of a mile away A tram stop could be demolished at a cost of £300,000 as part of a bid to boost links to a school and community complex. Transport chiefs are building a new stop at Abraham Moss in Crumpsall and want to close the Woodlands Road stop less than a quarter of a mile away.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• 36,000 break Metrocentre roads speed limit SPEED checks revealed an astonishing 36,000 drivers breaking the limit on a road in just seven days.

Wales Online

• Cat survives after 20 miles under car bonnet A stowaway cat trying to keep warm in the snowy conditions ended up travelling almost 20 miles trapped under the bonnet of his owner’s car.

The Shields Gazette

• A184 closures from bridge repairsDRIVERS have been warned of road closures this month at a busy roundabout near South Tyneside.

Other Regional Press

• Ebbw Vale crash woman 'would not wear seat belt' - inquest A MOTHER-OF-THREE who died in a car crash rarely wore her seatbelt and told her mother it was because she "would rather be dead than a cabbage," an inquest heard.
• Some disruption to Newport train services A REPLACEMENT bus service is running between Newport and Hereford Arriva Trains Wales service.
• UPDATE: Oxford Tube coach smash Seventeen people were taken to hospital after an Oxford Tube coach carrying 35 passengers overturned while leaving a motorway.

Other News Sources

• Stewart StevensonMinister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change tenders his resignation to the First Minister.
• Sussex to face "worst potholes ever" After snow, ice and freezing conditions, potholes have again started to appear on Sussex roads.
• Four fisherman saved after ship sinks in North SeaCrew of Fraserburgh registered boat Esorah plucked from liferaft in rough seas.
• Transport 'got poor deal' in reviewMPs in the House of Commons Transport Committee have been told that the Government's spending review has offered a poor deal for the transport sector. Updated on 10/12/2010 12:34:50. © RAC breakdown cover and car insurance.
• £1m cut to rural bus services across Herefordshire THE future for œlifeline rural bus routes is in limbo this week with confirmation that at least £1million worth of service subsidies will be lost to the cuts.
• Qualified pilot at 17 THE sky is now the limit for a 17-year-old student from Hursley who has gained his pilot™s licence.