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Sunday, 09 February 2014

BBC News

• City bid to tackle motoring offencesTraffic wardens in Cardiff could get extra powers to issue tickets to motorists for moving traffic offences.
• Village remembered amid runway plansRemembering the community that made way for Gatwick Airport
• Cash plea for flood-hit rail linesA Devon council is calling for more government funding to improve rail lines after all routes into the West country were cut off.
• Stabbed man in crashed car namedA man who died after being found with stab wounds in a car which had collided with a bus is named.

Financial Times

• Tube talks fail to avert further strikeLondon Underground workers still due to begin second 48-hour strike Tuesday evening

The Independent

• Police hunt woman who 'racially abused' family on the tube Police are asking the public to help find a woman after a young family were allegedly racially abused on the London Underground.    
• Failed at the NHS? Try again at HS2: Newly appointed director at rail project has history of 'wasting public money' One of the most heavily criticised men behind the NHS's IT fiasco has been made a director at High Speed Two, the similarly under fire £50bn railway linking London with the north.    

The Observer

• Iranian warships 'ordered to advance on US maritime borders'An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach US maritime borders as a response to the stationing of US vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday. "Iran's military fleet is approaching the United States' maritime borders, and this move has a message," the agency quoted Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad as saying.
• Two dies as boulder smashes into train in French AlpsTwo women were killed when a falling boulder hit a passing train in the French Alps on Saturday, leaving one of its carriages dangling precariously off a steep, snow-covered embankment. Eight people were injured in the accident which took place as the train travelled from the coastal city of Nice to the popular tourist town of Digne-les-Bains along a narrow, winding and sometimes steep track.

The Scotsman

• Warnings of North Sea helicopter pilot shortageNORTH Sea helicopter operators are struggling to attract experienced pilots to operate crucial offshore flights.

The Telegraph

• UK weather: Transport Secretary surveys storm damage in DawlishTransport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has visited the Devonshire town of Dawlish where a storm on Tuesday undermined a large section of the track.    
• There are greater rail priorities than HS2Telegraph View: Rebuilding lines wrecked by flooding is more urgent than a high-speed link    
• Ed Miliband faces new Labour split over HS2A revolt in the Shadow Cabinet over HS2 could scupper the £50 billion project, despite Ed Miliband promising to support the plan    

Daily Express

• Bob Crow's posh property empire paying for the strikesTHE STRIKING trade union run by champagne socialist Bob Crow is sitting on a stock market and property portfolio worth tens of millions of pounds and has a job centre as a tenant.

Daily Record

• TV star Davina McCall close to collapse on Sport Relief cycle through Borders as doctors feared she had hypothermiaTHE TV presenter is taking part in a charity challenge cycling from Edinburgh to London but almost fell at the first hurdle as she faced freezing winds and rain.

This is Money

• EasyJet's Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou slams Carolyn McCall's £6.5m payHaji-Ioannou owns about 37 per cent of the airline so if even just a few other shareholders joined him then the vote on directors’ remuneration would be close.

Manchester Evening News

• Nine MONTHS of tram chaos ahead for commutersThe nine-month, multi-million pound project will begin on February 21, adding extra platforms, tracks, and expanding to make way for the second city crossing.

Northern Echo

• Parking in Darlington must be more 'car-friendly', councillors agree PARKING in Darlington should be better managed to make the town more car friendly and attract more shoppers, councillors have said.

Sheffield Star

• VIDEOS: Thousands flock to rail exhibitionThousands of visitors steamed into Doncaster Racecourse for the annual Festival of British Railway Modelling.
• Doncaster rail works refurbish iconic locomotiveEast Coast’s locomotive ’Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’ returned to the rails this weekend after a makeover and re-dedication at Doncaster’s Wabtec engineering works.

The York Press

• Call for council tax revolt after attempts for bus cuts rethink blocked RESIDENTS should consider refusing to pay their council tax in protest after attempts to force a rethink on North Yorkshire bus cuts were blocked, a councillor has claimed.

Wales Online

• Wales weather: High winds and torrential rain bring power cuts and transport chaos as Storm Ruth hits WalesMost of Wales' coastline is currently covered by a yellow weather warning, with an amber warning in place for the south coast
• M4 closed in both directions until tomorrow morning at the earliest after lorry hits central reservation and overturnsMotorway closed in both directions as a result of the crash, which took place at around 3.30pm

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Bus proposed to ship ex-Oakwood cons from villageShuttle buses could be introduced to ferry prisoners away from jail following complaints ex-cons are getting lost around a South Staffordshire village once released.

Bucks Free Press

• Gillan: We need more information before HS2 vote CHERYL Gillan said this week MPs should not be holding a key vote on HS2 without being given the information contained in a report that was controversially withheld by the government.

Other Regional Press

• Major city road closed after crash DRIVERS have been warned of major delays this evening after a multi-vehicle crash closed part of a motorway.
• East Hampshire car parks revampedCOUNCIL car parks across East Hampshire are set for a £145,00 facelift.
• £80,000 paid out in fines from speed cameras on M27THOUSANDS of people were caught speeding along the M27 during roadworks, racking up more than £80,000 in fines.
• Portsmouth to Isle of Wight hovercraft services suspendedThe hovercraft service between Southsea and Ryde continues to be suspended today following high winds.

Other News Sources

• Tributes pore in on social media for boy killed by train in Winchester TRIBUTES have pored in after a teenager was hit by a train at Winchester railway station last night.