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Saturday, 05 October 2019

BBC News

• Vaccine package leak blamed for Glasgow Airport alertThe leak resulted in a cordon being placed around a KLM aircraft and a partial evacuation at Glasgow Airport.
• Brexit: How might hard border affect the boating industry?Sailing on Ireland's border canals is a scene of tranquillity but would a hard border change that?
• Wrightbus workers hold rally to save their jobsFour bidders are now interested in buying the firm, one is from the UK, one from China, and two from the EU.
• Paddington rail disaster: Survivor fears safety 'could be slipping'Thirty-one people died when two trains collided after a driver missed a red signal on 5 October 1999.
• Bus company calls for move away from cars and railMcGill's, which operates on Clydeside and employs 800 staff, says the number of journeys taken by bus needs to be reflected in investment priorities.
• Car sales: September figures deepen industry gloomHopes of a big sales increase in September are dashed, but growth in electric vehicles continues.
• 'Ten years with my insurer meant a £2,000 hike'Consumers are overpaying by £1.2bn a year for home and car insurance, the financial regulator says.

Financial Times

• HS2 plan considers axing eastern extension to Leeds [Subscription]Rail line could be shortened and trains run at slower speeds to save money

The Scotsman

• Glasgow airport incident in pictures: Emergency services on the scene as building evacuatedAll passengers have been evacuated from the international area of Glasgow Airport due to an
• Stark figures show car crash for Scottish motor dealersMotor industry leaders have expressed concern at a sharp fall in new car sales north of the Border, with Scotland firmly stuck in the slow lane.

The Telegraph

• Trawler 14 times the size of UK fishing boats is plundering fish from British waters before Brexit
• Hong Kong's transport system shut down after night of violence

Times Online

• Evacuation at Glasgow airport after suspicious package alert [Subscription]Passengers were moved to safety and two people treated by paramedics after a suspicious package was discovered on an aircraft at Glasgow airport.
• Hauliers demand tougher action on safety checks for foreign trucks [Subscription]The road safety watchdog does not target foreign trucks for safety checks in the same way it does for Irish vehicles, a trade body has claimed.
• Aircraft owner takes back its jets from Thomas Cook [Subscription]The break-up of Thomas Cook’s airline continued yesterday when the leasing company that owns two of its newer aircraft confirmed that it had taken back possession of them.
• Insurance companies are called to account over unfair price policies [Subscription}Car and household insurers face being blocked from imposing annual price rises on loyal customers unless they come up with reforms of their own in the next six weeks, under a crackdown proposed by the City regulator.
• 20mph limit only works with speed humps [Subscription]Cutting the speed limit to 20mph reduces crashes and saves lives only if it is introduced alongside road humps or chicanes, a study has found.
• Half a million customers can sue BA over huge data breach [Subscription]Half a million British Airways customers have been given the go-ahead to sue the airline over its cybersecurity breach last summer.

Reuters News

• Stop penalising loyal customers, UK regulator tells car and home insurersBritain's markets watchdog threw down the gauntlet to car and home insurers on Friday, saying they could avoid mandatory pricing restrictions if they voluntarily stop penalising loyal customers.

City AM

• Will easyJet share price rally be sustained?British no-frills airline easyJet will release its next trading statement on 8 October, and with Thomas Cook’s collapse still fresh in [...] The post Will easyJet share price rally be sustained? appeared first on CityAM.

Mail Online

• Emergency services rush to aircraft at Glasgow airport as all passengers are evacuated At least 20 fire service personnel dealt with the incident, along with the police and ambulance services.

The Mirror

• Jet2 passengers forced to sleep on airport floor at 3am after delay chaosOnly some were given hotels as around 50 were left stranded thanks to problems in Corfu Airport, Greece, on Friday

Birmingham Mail

• The Fiat 500 Abarth - why car thieves are targeting this 'pocket rocket' Police issued a warning for Fiat 500 Abarth drivers following a surge in thefts. We spoke to motor expert Tim Shallcross who explained the reasons behind the trend

Birmingham Post

• Liverpool is 'stand out' UK port region - and will be vital to economy after Brexit, report revealsIt is the UK's "stand out region", it's been revealed
• Transport for Wales plan extra trains and more capacityThey will provide space for up to 6,500 more commuters a week from December this year
• £30m funding boost for West Midlands transportNew capital stream will support the create of bus lanes, junction upgrades and improvement stops across Birmingham and the Black Country

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Make councillors take buses and bar them from claiming car mileage ratesThat was the call made by Dylan Fernley at a full meeting of Gwynedd Council in a bid to boost public transport use and save money
• Police warn Wales Rally GB drivers to 'obey the rules of the road' after complaintsThe forced tweeted to say officers would be out and about in the region

London Evening Standard

• Glasgow Airport incident: KLM aircraft evacuated over vaccine cargo leak Glasgow Airport was partially evacuated and an aircraft was cordoned off after a leak in cargo containing vaccinations.
• British Airways: Thousands given green light to make compensation claim over BA data breachThousands of British Airways customers have been given the green light to to bring compensation claims against the airline over a data breach.

The York Press

• £800k First York bus upgrade to boost clean air in city YORK’S biggest bus operator has invested £800,000 in a fleet of low emission buses on two of its services.

Bucks Free Press

• Transport for Bucks encourage use of app to stop 'Morning after' drink driving Transport for Buckinghamshire is reminding rugby fans to be careful about driving the morning after drinking during the Rugby World Cup.

Cambridge News

• Furious Stansted passengers stranded at Corfu AirportOne passenger was filmed berating Jet2 staff after he was left sleeping on the airport floor
• Vital roundabout into Cambridge city centre closed all weekendDiversions will be in place, including for Stagecoach - and it could cause traffic chaos

East Anglian Daily Times

• Council criticised for not giving mother opportunity to fight for school transportEducation chiefs have been pulled up for their handling of a school transport case by the government ombudsman.

North Wales Live

• Wales Rally GB live: Latest updates as day three of the action gets underwayWe will bring you all the latest as more than 35 of the world’s fastest supercars arrive in the heart of Colwyn Bay today

Other Regional Press

• Fail to pay your GWR rail fare and you could get a massive fineIF YOU'RE tempted to skip a small rail fare, these two court fines might make you think twice.
• Improvements on railways – including the Cowley Branch Line – will mean 'evolution not revolution', council saysIMPROVEMENTS on Oxfordshire’s railways will look more like ‘evolution rather than revolution’ when they eventually come into play, the county council has warned.
• Highways bosses u-turn on Teesside Airport signs revealing they do have plans to change themConcern was raised about signs confusing passengers travelling to Teesside from further afield
• Urgent work to close part of A299Five days of roadworks are being carried out on one of Kent's busiest routes.

Rail Technology Magazine

• Car share scheme rolled out at Tring station London Northwestern Railway have introduced an innovative car share scheme to save their passengers money while helping the environment. Passengers travelling to Tring station are being invited to use a new scheme of sharing their journey to the station. The pilot scheme will use a website...

Aviation Industry

• Scotland regional Loganair continues expansion plan Scotland-based regional Loganair is continuing its rapid expansion with the announcement of two further groups of new routes. read more
• Repatriation of Thomas Cook passengers nears endEfforts to return some 150,000 customers of failed leisure operator Thomas Cook Airlines are scheduled to conclude this weekend, with the UK’s aviation regulator hailing the success of what has been described as the country’s largest peacetime repatriation effort. read more

Green Miscellany

• Government inaction on pavement parking slammed by Transport CommitteeWe find it profoundly regrettable that the Government has taken so long to take any action to deal with pavement parking. So says a recent report  by the parliament’s Transport Committee – a body appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for Transport. Their frustration is understandable. Fours years ago the… The post Government inaction on pavement parking slammed by Transport Committee appeared first on ETA.
• Cameras to catch drivers using mobile phonesA new type of roadside camera that catches drivers using a mobile phone behind the wheel has been launched by police in the Netherlands. During 18 months of testing, the system used so-called ‘machine learning’ to distinguish between a driver holding a phone and other objects. The cameras have now been installed at two locations in the Netherlands – the… The post Cameras to catch drivers using mobile phones appeared first on ETA.

Other News Sources

• Train disruption to hit Guildford, Woking, Staines, Epsom and Dorking over the weekend Engineering work across the South Western Railway, Great Western Railway and Southern Railway services will affect numerous areas
• Electric cars: call for tax on road usage to cover lost fuel revenue Britain should move to a system of road pricing to combat congestion and compensate for the £28bn loss of revenue from fuel duty as the country makes the transition to electric vehicles, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
• Spend £2.2m parking profit on cheap permits, say ToriesPARKING charges and fines raked in almost £27 million for a council last year.

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