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Sunday, 16 September 2012

BBC News

• Rally marks teenager road deathMore than 300 people join a rally in Birmingham in memory of a 13-year-old girl killed by a lorry almost a year ago.
• Girl's concern over speeding carsAn MP visits and promises to help a 10-year-old girl who raised concerns about cars speeding through her village.
• Challenges to cruise ship hopesAttracting big cruise ships to a town could bring huge benefits to the local economy, if challenges can be overcome, a committee is told.
• Road charge for foreign lorriesForeign lorries will be charged up to £1,000 a year to use British roads in a bid to benefit domestic hauliers, the government confirms.

The Telegraph

• Ministers announce new road tax on foreign lorriesForeign truck drivers are to be charged up to £1,000 a year to use British roads, ministers are to announce.

Daily Express

• Lack of engineers may put brakes on UK's car industryA SHORTAGE of electrical engineers is threatening to mar the startling success of the UK's car manufacturing industry.

This is Money

• Tax rebated cycle-to-work scheme can turn us all into a nation of cycling heroesBritain's cycling success in the Olympics and Bradley Wiggins' historic Tour de France win have sparked a cycling boom, prompting many workers to buy bikes through the tax-rebated cycle-to-work scheme.

Birmingham Mail

• Tamworth hit-and-run motorist gets five-year driving banA DRIVER has been banned from the roads for five years for injuring a biker in a hit-and-run crash.

Metro

• Legal delays on the line...Virgin Trains' fury as officials stallVirgin Trains has accused the Government of deliberately delaying a decision on the West Coast Main Line by refusing to ask the High Court to speed up a crucial hearing.
• Man drives wrong way down M6 for four miles after failing to find toll cashA man has been banned from driving after heading down the M6 in the wrong direction because he did not have the money to pay for a toll road.Damion Czarnocki, 20, who is from Poland, was taking a hire car from Manchester to a customer in the south of England on August 23rd when he reached the M6 toll interchange. Mr Czarnocki approached the toll booths before performing a U-turn (Google) He said he mistakenly took the toll road rather than staying on the original motorway, which does not incur a charge.Mr Czarnocki performed a U-turn in the middle of the motorway upon realising he would have t...
• Light aircraft crash in Hampshire leaves two men seriously injuredA light aircraft has crashed into undergrowth near Popham Airfield in Hampshire, leaving the pilot and passenger with 'serious and possibly life-threatening injuries' and causing extensive tailbacks on the A303. Popham airfield in Hampshire near to where a light aircraft crashed (Picture: Google Maps) The four-seater aircraft came down in a wooded area near to the airfield at around 3pm. Hampshire Police said the pilot and passenger suffered serious and possibly life-threatening injuries. It is not yet clear where the plane had taken off from or where it was heading to when it came down.Th...
• Passengers on train delayed three hours due to vandals putting cones on tracksPassengers on a Reading bound train were delayed in south-west London late last night after vandals placed 15 cones on the track.The obstructions on the line caused damage to the 10.50pm service from London Waterloo to Reading, which had to be repaired before it could be taken at low speed into Mortlake Station, allowing passengers to disembark, reports the BBC. The actions of the vandals led to a three-hour delay for some passengers. A spokesman for the South West Trains-Network Rail Alliance said: ˜We are extremely angry at the impact such irresponsible actions by vandals has had on our cust...

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Full steam ahead to GrantownThe Strathspey heritage railway is now on track for a major expansion.

The York Press

• York says farewell to HMS York THE officers and crew of HMS York are spending the weekend saying thank you to the city of York for their support and the warmth of their hospitality over 27 years since she was granted the Freedom of the City. Tomorrow York residents have a last chance to go aboard when she stages an Open Day

Wales Online

• And they're off - Welsh legends cycle California for Velindre Cancer CareIf you put together five Welsh rugby legends, a former Miss Wales and 250 miles of some of North America’s most extraordinary landscapes, what do you get?
• Re-nationalise Wales' railways to beat congestion says Plaid AM Simon ThomasWales' rail problems would be solved by establishing a not-for-dividend company to run trains on the nation’s network, a leading AM has said.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Woodbridge: Proposals for a cycle track on Fen Meadow move a stage forwardPROPOSALS to create a cycling track on a popular area of open space have moved a step forward.
• Suffolk: Four taken to hospital after spate of road accidentsPOLICE have been dealing with a series of road traffic accidents across Suffolk this morning.

The Shields Gazette

• Big-hearted bus driver gets 20,000 Facebook ˜likes™!A GOOD Samaritan bus driver has become an international sensation after coming to the rescue of a South Tyneside teenager with Down’s syndrome.

Other Regional Press

• New evening bus services in Winchester a 'dog's dinner', forum hears A ROW erupted between city councillors over new bus routes, with one member describing the plans as a œdog™s dinner.
• Look out - there™s a catalytic converter thief aboutRural businesses and residents are being warned to take steps to protect themselves from catalytic converter thefts.
• Showroom vans taken by thieves Two new vans were stolen from outside a car showroom.
• Motor racing community's tribute to F1 doctor When ex-motor racing driver John Watson crashed his car during the Dutch Grand Prix in 1980, he knew he could count on his friend Sid Watkins to help him out.

Other News Sources

• Campaign to keep Blackburn bus services A CAMPAIGN to keep bus services through Audrey and Queens Park has been taken to the Blackburn with Darwen Council.
• Three races to go and it™s down to the wireThe Goodyear-backed FIA European truck race series looks to be a two-man race to the final. Jochen Hahn in the Castrol Team Hahn Racing, driving his MAN truck leads the FIA European Truck Race Championship after the eighth round, which took place at Most, Czech Republic on September 1 and 2. On the Saturday, both races were won by Antonio Albacete in the team Equipo Cepsa driving an MAN. On Sunday Jochen Hahn won the first race and David Vrsecky in the Buggyra International Racing System Team driving a Freightliner won the second. The next event will take place at Zolder in Belgium on Septembe...
• Link it Logistics chooses Mercedes-Benz AtegoWhen European express distribution specialist Link it Logistics EU gave its drivers the opportunity to choose the type of truck they wanted, they came back with a resounding œMercedes-Benz. The operator provides a ˜white glove™ delivery service covering all EU countries, as well as Norway and Switzerland, for a US-based computer networking giant. With headquarters in Magherafelt, Londonderry, and a transit warehouse near Maastricht, in the Netherlands, Link it Logistics delivers its customer™s products “ primarily video conferencing systems “ within five days of each consignment™s arrival in ...

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