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Monday, 04 March 2013

BBC News

• Cowley Bridge flooded rail line 'improvements needed' Campaigners are calling for the main railway line connecting the South West to the rest of England to be improved after it was closed because of floods.
• MPs urged to back Humber toll reliefMPs representing Humber constituencies support legislation which could allow hospital patients to use the Humber Bridge for free.

Financial Times

• Stobart facing chop from FTSE 250The group has been in the index since 2009, but its share price has lost more than a quarter of its value in the past year, making it vulnerable
• CBI points to gain from extra flightsBusiness group says UK trade would receive a £1bn boost if airports together added just eight direct flights a day to developing economies
• East Coast railway set to stay state-runThe management team of the main line, which runs services between London, Newcastle and Edinburgh, has been asked to draw up a five-year plan

The Herald

• Railway plans must get back on trackAs I passed through York on the Flying Scotsman last week, the train chugged by the yard of the National Railway Museum, where two old carriages stood out in the frost.
• Campaigners insist Waverley Line is viableTHE Campaign for Borders Rail has insisted that a re-opened Waverley Line is viable.
• Cut fares for delays, says rail watchdogRAIL watchdogs have called for fares to be slashed when engineering works cause delays.

Bolton News

• Councillors spend cash on the roads COUNCILLORS in Horwich North East ward have targeted thousands of pounds on road improvements.

Bristol Live

• The Bristol Post published On Track: Dave Wood's column on railwaysArticle
• The Bristol Post published Bristol's first black bus driver dies aged 76A MAN whose determination helped reshape the face of public transport in Bristol has died.

Northern Echo

• Fifty years on from Beeching - North York Moors Railway is world's busiest heritage line A RAILWAY line which was axed during brutal cuts by Beeching 50 year ago is now one of the busiest steam heritage routes in the world.

Yorkshire Post

• Stagecoach drives off US effect Transport operator Stagecoach said strong growth at its UK bus and rail businesses will make up for weather-related disruption and rising costs at its North American unit.
• Funding threat to Dales bus transport revolutionA PUBLIC transport revolution to slash car use and encourage tourists to use buses across some of the remotest parts of the Yorkshire Dales is “teetering on a knife edge” despite record passenger numbers as funding is expected to fall by as much as two-thirds.

Bucks Free Press

• A TRAVEL service that takes villagers to and from medical appointments is in need of help. AN ONLINE petition has been set up in protest at proposals to give more money and power to the company in charge of planning the route of the HS2 railway line.

East Anglian Daily Times

• East Anglia: Region™s firms urged to pitch for Crossrail contractsTEN new jobs are to be created in west Suffolk by a Northern Ireland company which has secured work on the Crossrail project in London.

Other Regional Press

• Forest Row Community Transport group in desperate plea for help A TRAVEL service that takes villagers to and from medical appointments is in need of help.

The Business Desk

• Interims provide cheer for Tracsis TRACSIS has seen half-year profits leap by 50% and said today it expects its growth to continue.