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Saturday, 30 April 2011

BBC News

• Wedding transport service hailedPublic transport is hailed a success as hundreds of thousands of extra passengers travel around London for the royal wedding.
• Mayor's tandem gift for newlywedsLondon mayor Boris Johnson gives a tandem cycle based on the city's bike hire scheme as a wedding present to the royal couple.

Financial Times

• British institutions: local governmentThe coalition plans to restore power to the councils “ but the people neither care enough, nor have enough faith in their own judgment, to demand the right to make their own decisions, says Matthew Engel
• U-turn over easing of EU air travel restrictionsMove comes after at least 10 of the 27 EU member states, said they would maintain existing restrictions on liquid, aerosols and gels, after the April 29 deadline

The Herald

• Trams leaders will beg for extra fundingEDINBURGH™S tram leaders will ask the new Scottish Government for more funding to complete the crisis-hit scheme after calling off a two-year dispute with contractors, The Herald has learned.
• Progress ... but at what cost to taxpayer?AFTER months of stalemate, any progress in breaking the deadlock between tram developers and contractors is surely to be welcomed.

Liverpool Post

• New aircraft carriers bill soars by £1billion THE bill for new giant aircraft carriers – being partly built at Birkenhead's Cammell Laird shipyard – has ballooned by a further £1bn, the Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Transport and congestion on the route north is a hot topic on the doorstepsHigh-profile former incumbent Nicol Stephen shocked the political world when he resigned as leader of the Scottish Lib Dems in 2008, announcing last year that he would not be standing for re-election.
• Watchdog may be asked to investigate Inverness business park loan FINANCIAL watchdogs could be asked to investigate a Highland Council loan to the company behind plans for Inverness Airport.

Western Daily Press

• Cyclist's tales of life on open road wdnews@bepp.co.uk As he crashed through a car windscreen, Tony Taylor's life-long passion for cycling came to an abrupt end. The collision fractured his skull and left him registered blind. Had he not been wearing a helmet he would have been killed. Fourteen years later, the 74-year-old has published a book reminiscing on a bygone era of amateur cycle racing. Mr Taylor, from Castle Cary in Somerset, had just taken over Somerton Post Office when the accident happened at Long Load in 1996.

Transport for London

• Tour of Britain cycle race to return to central London this SeptemberTour of Britain, the UK's biggest professional cycle race, will return to the Capital's streets this year on the final stage of the Tour.

Aviation Industry

• Aberdeen Airport gearing up to œCelebrateAberdeen Airport has signed up to be part of one of the biggest charitable awareness“raising events in the city™s recent history.

Other News Sources

• Stadler Rail expands presence in North America, opens U.S. subsidiary Stadler Rail AG, passenger rail vehicle supplier of customer-specific solutions, announced the opening of Stadler US Inc, which will service customers in the United States and support sales of all the Stadler products in North America. Stadler™s previous success of selling 37 rail vehicles to New Jersey Transit, and Texas Authorities Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Denton County Transportation Authority, has led the company to expand its presence in North America.Stadler™s long term commitment to North America is to provide rail vehicles with state-of-the-art technology, Swi...
• Another rise in East Lancashire bus faresBUS fares across East Lancashire are set to rise for the second time in eight months from the start of May.
• Lifting of airline liquids ban ˜should be delayed™Siim Kallas says ban should remain in place 'to avoid confusion'.
• London Takes Just Four Months to Break 2011 Smog LimitsBreach in London air quality limit shows stronger action needed on air pollution
• Longer trailers will reduce congestion, urges DenbyAs the Department for Transport (DfT) takes responses to its consultation on the introduction of longer semi-trailers, Dick Denby of Denby Transport has called on the government to consider how congestion would be reduced if 25.25m combinations were introduced.

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