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Sunday, 16 October 2011

BBC News

• Bat bridges on road cost £500,000Bat bridges costing £500,000 are being built as part of the A11 widening project between Norfolk and Suffolk.

The Telegraph

• New Minister compromised over Heathrow expansion, says Willie WalshWillie Walsh, the chief executive of International Airlines Group, owner of British Airways, has raised concerns that the new Transport Secretary is facing a “conflict of interest” because her constituency is under the Heathrow flight-path.
• British pilot feared dead in Swiss plane crashA British pilot is feared to have died in a plane crash in Switzerland.

Daily Express

• Virgin woos fliers with £56m state-of-art cabin makeoverVIRGIN Atlantic is sprucing up the cabins of its Gatwick and Manchester fleets with a £56 million refurbishment designed to appeal to leisure travellers.

Daily Record

• Worked to death - exhausted young doctor veers off road and dies after gruelling nightshiftEXCLUSIVE: A YOUNG doctor’s car crash death was yesterday blamed on “inhumane” working hours on Scotland’s wards.

Mail Online

• Transport chiefs under fire after spending £500k on road crossings for BATSCritics have branded the bridges, which are all in Norfolk, a 'waste of taxpayers' money' at a time when public services at facing a raft of budget cuts.
• Hundreds of passengers in peril as two lasers target jets from three miles awayA Thomson Airbus landing at Exeter airport, Devon, was targeted first, then a Flybe pilot was left 'shaken' when a laser was beamed into his aircraft.
• Furious Minister urges ban on foreign language driving testsThe Government is concerned that 'political correctness' means thousands of drivers have been granted British licences despite not being able to read road signs.

The Mirror

• Boris Johnson's public transport staff spend £6.6million on cabsThe cost will be a major ­embarrassment to the Mayor

Birmingham Mail

• Selly Oak New Road officially openedBIRMINGHAM’S newest road, designed to cut traffic congestion in the south of the city, has been officially opened by a transport minister.
• Councillors clash over Birmingham cab protestsBIRMINGHAM’S licensing chief has told cab drivers that their cars are ’always private hire vehicles’ and that permanent stickers are here to stay.
• Labour chief says they would not close Aston Manor Transport MuseumBIRMINGHAM’S opposition Labour leader said he would not evict the Aston Transport Museum if he was running the city council.

Northern Echo

• 20mph limit may be too costly, campaigners told A VICAR and a councillor believe the cost of imposing a 20mph speed limit in Darlington is worthwhile if it saves the lives of children.

Sheffield Telegraph

• Bus stop protesters secure a rethinkTRANSPORT managers have agreed to review the city centre locations of bus stops on the 120 route after receiving a petition from more than 1,600 passengers.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Repairs start at last on ˜worst™ Inverness roadMOTORISTS have welcomed the start of work to repair a road dubbed the œmost- potholed stretch in Inverness.

The York Press

• Cyclist injured in collision with bus in YorkUpdated: A CYCLIST has been taken to hospital with serious head and chest injuries after he was in collision with a bus in York.

East Anglian Daily Times

• East Anglia: Three dead in day of tragedy on roadsTHREE people have been killed in separate accidents on roads in East Anglia today.

Other Regional Press

• 100 cars seized in Aberdeen crackdown ABERDEEN City council bosses have seized 100 cars in a crackdown on rogue parkers in Aberdeen, the Evening Express can reveal today.
• Film stars to get all steamy at railway location STEAM train enthusiasts travel to Didcot railway centre from across the globe and now the ˜Russians™ are coming.

Other News Sources

• Family guilty of £1.5m crash liesPair found guilty of contempt of court during compensation claim against Brighton and Hove buses over bus accident.
• Benefit cheat filmed riding motorbikeA man who claimed he could not walk was secretly filmed on his motorbike at a British motocross championship competition.Related StoriesMarathon runner 'used bus for six miles'