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Sunday, 01 May 2011

BBC News

• VIDEO: Segways: The latest adventure sport?If you are looking for a family activity to try this Spring how about trying a sport which is taking off.
• Two dead in motorway coach crashTwo people are killed and 49 are hurt in a crash between a coach and lorry which closed the M11 in Essex and Cambridgeshire.

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.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Overloaded motorboat aided by coastguardsCoastguards went to the rescue of a œdangerously overloaded broken-down motor boat yesterday which was carrying 10 people.

Other Regional 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.
• Ring of steel at 4 city stationsAutomated ticket gates are to be installed at railway stations in and around the centre of Glasgow in a multi-million pound crackdown on fare dodgers.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Lorries banned from Midlands streetsA number of streets in Cheshire have had a bar placed on heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) using them following complaints by residents.Locals in Alsager claimed lorries had been using the highways as rat-runs, with eight roads now covered by the restrictions, the Sentinel reports.Under the ban imposed by Cheshire East Council, any trucks weighing over 7.5 tonnes will be barred from using the streets in question as short cuts.They cover areas where there are primary schools, parks and playgrounds, with the restrictions first proposed in 2004.A spokesman for the local authority told the news source: ...

Other News Sources

• 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.