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Sunday, 17 May 2015

BBC News

• Railway station exhibits new artworkWork on display at Moor Street station
• Roadworks missed deadline angers MPsMPs are demanding highways officials explain why roadworks on the A55 and A483 on the Chester-Wrexham border have over-run, causing months of frustration and long hold-ups for motorists.
• Porsche crashes through coffee shopA driver is treated for minor injuries after her sports car crashed through a coffee shop window.

The Guardian

• Network Rail staff to hold bank holiday strikeMembers of RMT union vote by 4-1 in favour for strike action and plan to stage 24-hour walkout in a row over pay
• 'Being a woman isn’t a barrier to working in the rail industry'Women make up just 16% of the rail industry: that’s a lower proportion than women on FTSE 100 boards (currently 23.5%). In 2012, Adeline Ginn founded Women in Rail, with the aim of providing ongoing support and networking opportunities, as well as promoting the industry as an attractive career choice for other women.

The Scotsman

• First increase in Scottish road deaths for yearsDEATHS on Scotland’s roads have increased for the first time in nearly a decade, research by Scotland on Sunday has revealed.

City AM

• Carl Icahn just invested $100m in Uber rival LyftThe well-known activist investor Carl Icahn has made a massive investment in Uber rival Lyft.The underdog taxi hailing startup is getting a $100m (£63m) from the outspoken investor's Icahn Enterprises.It's an unusual move for Icahn who holds stakes in larger companies such as Apple and eBayLyft has exclusive membership of the so-called unicorns - the small (but growing) group of private venture capital funded tech companies which are valued at over a billion dollars.However, that figure is dwarfed by the sky-high and ever-growing valuation of the taxi hailing market leader Uber, ...

Manchester Evening News

• Motorists face fresh disruption amid new M60 Smart Motorway overnight roadwork closures Junctions 12 and 13 on the anticlockwise carriageway of the M60 will shut from 22:00 BST on Saturday until 08:00 on Sunday

The York Press

• Rail HQ and eco homes impress RICS awards judges NETWORK Rail's York Campus and a contemporary housing development in the heart of city triumphed over 43 of region's most impressive property schemes last night.

Bucks Free Press

• Chiltern 21 Cycle in aid of charity returns next month A cycling event and family fun day in aid of charity will return to Saunderton next month. 

Doncaster Free Press

• Epworth event raises cycle safety awarenessTeaming up with Humberside Police was North Lincolnshire Council’s Safer Neighbourhoods at an event at Epworth Leisure Centre to raise awareness of keeping valuables safe by registering them with Immobilise. They also gave away cycle security items.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Rail strike to bring Peterborough trains to a “standstill” on Bank Holiday MondayRail passengers have been warned that services will be at a “standstill” the morning after the Bank Holiday because of a strike by Network Rail workers.

Other Regional Press

• Love to Ride Tees Valley Cycle Challenge to get businesses movingThe Love to Ride Tees Valley Cycle Challenge will take place from Monday, June 8, to Sunday, June 28
• Heysham to M6 link road bridge work delayedA planned closure of Torrisholme Road in Morecambe for work on the Heysham to M6 link has been postponed.
• Angry residents stage protest over cuts to "lifeline" bus service NEARLY 200 villagers protested in West Dorset to voice their anger that a “lifeline” bus service has been slashed, leaving them “cut off”.
• PARKING PLEA: Traders call for action over charge hikes and disrepair in Weymouth as BID launches new scheme TRADERS are saying enough is enough when it comes to the state of parking in Weymouth and Portland.

Other News Sources

• Lawyers called in after Blackburn's £4.7m bus station hit by major new delay BLACKBURN’S £4.7million bus station has been hit by a major new delay and is expected to open by Christmas – a year later than originally planned.
• Cambridge Business Improvement District (BID) elects new ChairmanCambridge BID, the organisation that represents the interests of 1,100 city centre businesses, has elected a new Chairman. Ian Sandison, who has been a Cambridge BID Board Member since the inception of the organisation in April 2013, replaced outgoing Chairman Michael Wiseman on 12 May 2015.