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Sunday, 03 July 2011

BBC News

• Bugatti bargain: £60 car sells for £430kA vintage Bugatti car which was bought for £60 in 1950 sells for more than £400,000 at auction.
• Labour urges rail contract reviewThe decision to award a £1.5bn rail contract to a German rather than a UK manufacturer had dealt a

Financial Times

• Tiger Airways flights halted over safety concernsAustralia has grounded Tiger Airways' Australian internal flights over safety concerns, prompting the carrier's chief executive to fly to Australia for talks

The Telegraph

• Duke of York in road sign protest to mayorThe Duke of York has delivered a royal address every commoner will sympathise with by berating roads officials when his car was stuck in traffic.
• Boris derails Cameron's 'perverse' £34billion high-speed linkFuture of planned High Speed 2 rail link thrown into fresh doubt as Boris Johnson dubs project

Daily Record

• Widow's fury as death driver sues for post-traumatic stress EXCLUSIVE: A TRUCKER blamed for an accident which killed two mineworkers is to sue for £100,000 for the stress he suffered.

Mail Online

• End of the line: Britain's last surviving train maker facing closure - a victim of political hypocrisy, Whitehall indifference and EU madnessThere’s a small brass plaque high on the wall of this huge Victorian factory building. ’Zeppelin Bomb Fell Here. Feb 1st 1916’ it reads. More attacks followed a generation later when this area was pumping out aircraft parts during World War Two.
• '2000 jobs set to go' as train making hits end of line in BritainThe death-knell of train building in Britain is expected to be announced on Tuesday when the Canadian engineering company Bombardier tells its 3,000 workers at its Derby factory their fate.

Derby Telegraph

• Bombardier bosses unable to give assurance that factory will escape closureTHE grim reality of Bombardier losing out on a £1.4bn government rail contract was spelled out to Derby city leaders in Berlin yesterday.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Trucker narrowly avoids collision with Metro MOMENTS from disaster, a trucker diced with death on a Metro crossing. With snow on the ground and workmen on the side of the tracks, the barriers started to come down as a train approached.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Road safety expert fined over deaths of bike coupleA French road-safety expert has been fined £3,000 for causing the deaths of two motorcyclists in a head-on crash on the notorious A9.

Wales Online

• Call for fare play for Wales’ bus passengers Bus passengers are paying vastly different amounts for fares across Wales – with some being asked to pay twice as much as others for day tickets.

Other Regional Press

• AM backs new railway station for Newport AN AM has said that a proposed new railway station in a Newport suburb would provide huge benefits for the local community.
• Disruption during works at Aberdeen roundaboutMAJOR roadworks at Aberdeen™s biggest roundabout are causing disruption for motorists.
• Aberdeen drivers face weeks of roadworksMOTORING misery is on the cards for Aberdeen drivers as a string of roadworks are set to begin.
• Brisk business at Aberdeen Airport as summer holidays kick inTHE summer holidays have kicked off today for pupils across the Aberdeen area.
• Questions asked in Commons over three-hour train breakdownA train company is being investigated after around 500 commuters were left stranded in broken- down carriages for more than three hours.