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Monday, 23 July 2012

BBC News

• Birmingham's Corporation Street bus stops closed All of the bus stops on one of the main streets in Birmingham city centre are no longer being used.
• London 2012 travel: Olympics road changes for drivers Roads around London will "look and feel different" from Monday after a weekend of preparations for Olympics traffic, Transport for London (TfL) has warned.

Financial Times

• FirstGroup focus is on recovery driveThe company expects investor attention to be more on its attempts to engineer a turnround than on the fate of chairman Martin Gilbert

The Guardian

• Transport subsidies: are they heading in the wrong direction? Subsidies that encourage lower-impact transportation are superseded by those that are damaging to the environment, society and the economy

The Herald

• Trial run for trains that cut London time to three hoursTRAVELLING by rail from Scotland's capital to London could be 50 minutes quicker and take little more than three hours if new tilting trains are introduced following trials.

The Scotsman

• Top officer hurt in anti–railway protest A SENIOR Italian police officer has been injured in violent clashes with people protesting against a planned high-speed rail link between France and northern Italy.

Reuters News

• Double-decker London bus reborn as athletic Czech art A Czech artist has re-modelled a traditional London double-decker bus into a mechanical sculpture of an athlete doing push-ups to celebrate the Olympic Games opening in the British capital on Friday.

Daily Express

• Virgin stokes up BMI rowSIR RICHARD BRANSON's Virgin Atlantic airline wants the EU to look again at the takeover of BMI by British Airways' owner IAG earlier this year.

Manchester Evening News

• Airport study pinpoints travellers to city Manufacturing, media and technology are the key sectors luring business travellers to Manchester, research showed today. The report, by Manchester Airport and accountancy giant Deloitte, also reveals most business visitors come to the region from America, Germany and Ireland.
• Manchester airport named one of world's top destinations for plane spottingManchester has been named as one of the best cities in the world . . . for plane spotting. Thousands of aviation enthusiasts flock to Manchester Airport's runway visitor park every year to watch aircraft take-off and land.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Bus companies to consider diversion scheme in Leeds villageBus bosses have promised to look at plans that could see improved public transport links in a Leeds village.

Yorkshire Post

• Road safety campaign MP wins awardA LEEDS MP who has campaigned for dangerous drivers to have their licences suspended after they have killed people or are caught twice over the drink-drive limit has been presented with an award.

Bucks Free Press

• Train timetables to be reconsidered A REVIEW of services at a south Bucks railway station is being planned after protests from passengers.

Other Regional Press

• Politicians unite to try and derail Thameslink plans Lambeth councillors joined forces last week to protest against planned cuts to the Wimbledon loop Thameslink service.
• Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis prepares for summer bus tourGREAT Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis is preparing for a busy summer as he embarks of a bus tour that will take him to almost every corner of his constituency.
• Concerns over loss of school bus County has withdrawn funding for the school bus from Storrington to Rydon Community College (route 601,619).
• Site announced for bus station PLANS for a new bus station in Worksop are a step closer after Notts County Council announced it has bought a building in the town.
• Help shape the future of railway LEWES is a town that is fortunate to have rail connections throughout Sussex and to the capital.
• Inverkip Railway Bridge May Cause More Problems Than It Solves (Three Comments)I write in response to the article regarding the new bridge at Inverkip Station. Cllr Innes Nelson was quoted as saying that the bridge would help alleviate the congestion problems on Station Road and Kip Avenue.

Other News Sources

• HS2 compensation scheme delay gets a mixed reaction DESPITE campaigners’ anger with the HS2 compensation scheme delay Kenilworth’s MP says he would rather have a good scheme than a quick scheme.
• Bus travel at 50 year high Transport for London has released new figures showing a 60% increase in 'bus ridership' in London compared to the year 2000. Officials say bus travel in the capital is at a 50 year high.
• Over 1000 Recordings on Isleworth Noise MapResidents of Isleworth have recorded over 1044 individual noise readings using new technology developed for smart phones to take their own noise recordings. The recordings were made as part of a 5 week project in Isleworth which is a collaboration between University College London and HACAN (Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise).