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Monday, 10 October 2011

BBC News

• Ageing Tyne and Wear Metro trains get £35m revamp The first Tyne and Wear Metro train to undergo a multi million-pound makeover has been unveiled.
• Assurances from tram firm were rubbish, says SwinneyFinance Secretary John Swinney accuses the company set up to run Edinburgh's ill-fated tram project of repeatedly misleading him.

Financial Times

• Canadian business aviation hits turbulent timesCorporate aircraft operators start to go to the US to register aircraft after new government rules create delays in issuing private operator certificates

The Guardian

• Chris Huhne 'incorrect' over Philip Hammond speeding points Source close to transport secretary says Lib Dem was wrong to tell BBC that cabinet colleague recently got points on licence

The Herald

• Revealed: How tram negotiators yakked about luxury yachts IT was supposed to be a time for experts to knock heads together and save the maligned Edinburgh trams project.
• ’Trams body talked rubbish’, says Swinney THE body responsible for the Edinburgh trams debacle “fundamentally misled” the Government and the local council on the project, according to the Finance Secretary.

The Scotsman

• They've chosen wrong route for trams, claims professor Work on the tram network goes on, but is it in the wrong place? EDINBURGH chose the wrong tram line to build first, one of Scotland's most influential transport academics will argue today.
• They've chosen wrong route for trams, claims professor Work on the tram network goes on, but is it in the wrong place? EDINBURGH chose the wrong tram line to build first, one of Scotland's most influential transport academics will argue today.
• Brian Monteith: High speed train link the fast track to losing outUK spending on huge infrastructure projects doesn't mean we have to take part at the price of losing investment in Scotland. YET another large infrastructure project is being touted in the south of England, this time a high-speed rail connection between Heathrow and Gatwick to create a new airport hub called Heathwick, at a projected cost of £5.2 billion.

The Telegraph

• Without a new airport, British businesses will be left behind Our inability to fly to new destinations gives European firms a major trade advantage, writes Boris Johnson.
• It’s horrible to accuse defenders of the countryside of preferring their lawns to jobs for other people [letter]SIR – Mr Gove calls those opposing draft changes in the planning laws, “nimbies”. Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary, used the same word for those opposing the HS2 rail scheme.

Reuters News

• BA's Walsh dismisses "Heathwick" rail link-paper Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways owner International Airline Group , has poured cold water on a plan to link London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports by high-speed rail.

Metro

• Chris Huhne ˜got speed claim facts wrong™Chris Huhne was told he needed to ˜check his facts™ after he claimed transport secretary Philip Hammond was recently handed speeding points.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Metro trains given multi-million pound makeover METRO trains undergoing a multi-million pound makeover were being revealed for the first time today.

Nottingham Evening Post

• Train boss leaves to run another franchiseTHE NEXT train out of Nottingham will be carrying the managing director of East Midlands Trains. Tim Shoveller, the man who has run operations out of the city for the past four years, is leaving to take over another franchise owned by EMT's parent company, Stagecoach Group.

The York Press

• Bus users in North Yorkshire hit out at service cut RESIDENTS living on a bus route which serves a string of North Yorkshire towns and villages have hit out after learning a service is to be cut almost in half later this month.

Yorkshire Post

• New D-I-Y services may offer lifeline for villagersANYONE wishing to keep their local library or primary school open, or a local bus route to keep running, could soon find the task falls down to them.

Other Regional Press

• Chatham's new bus station opens on Monday Medway's controversial new 'mushroom' bus station in Chatham opens on Monday, with the council pledging that it will transform public transport in the area.
• Fare's fair in bus cost rowBus passengers will no longer need to pay a second fare to continue on a particular route.
• £300,000 project to get kids cycling to Colne schoolsA £300,000 investment in cycling facilities to encourage students to cycle to school is taking place in Colne.