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Sunday, 07 March 2021

Financial Times

• Aston Martin promises to make electric models in UKLuxury brand will make a battery sports car and SUV in current plants from 2025
• Airlines redraw routes to match shifting passenger demand Asia and Africa flights provide strong revenue stream as transatlantic business dries up

The Herald

• Scots island ferry price hike fury: Supply trucks charged five times more than campervansISLANDERS have blasted the "absolutely unacceptable" cost of lorries delivering vital supplies having to pay nearly five times more than a holidaymaker in a similar sized vehicle to take a ferry.

Times Online

• Deliveroo to set up €18.5m ’thank you fund’ for riders ahead of potential IPO [Subscription]Hundreds of so-called riders will be eligible to receive cash payments from Deliveroo through a €18.5 million “thank you fund” that the food delivery company plans to set up ahead of a potential flotation on the London Stock Exchange.
• Delayed: 1.5m passengers waiting for flight refunds [Subscription]More than £3 billion has been paid in airfare refunds to passengers whose travel plans were cancelled because of the pandemic. Regulators said that 95 per cent of travellers whose flights were grounded had been refunded, most in cash rather than vouchers or credit.
• Chargepoint welcomes the electric car brigade [Subscription]America is racing to provide the infrastructure to serve a wave of new non-petrol vehicles and a surge in demand from motorists

City AM

• Electric cars will lead to a design transformation on the scale of iPhones & Apple laptopsThere was a golden age of car design that ran from the mid 1950's to early 1970's. Cars like the The post Electric cars will lead to a design transformation on the scale of iPhones & Apple laptops appeared first on CityAM.

Daily Express

• ‘Boris Burrow’ tunnel between Britain and Northern Ireland moves a step closerBORIS JOHNSON'S plans for a

This is Money

• The moral Mercedes: We drive the German brand's new £40k electric EQAThe elegant EQA is certainly a very stylish, eye-catching upmarket family runaround that caused lots of heads to turn as we road-tested it around the leafy lanes and major roads of Surrey.

Bolton News

• Passengers face £200 fine if they fail to complete declaration to travel form Travellers face being fined £200 if they turn up at an airport without a new form stating the reason for their trip, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Vehicle thefts plummet in West Yorkshire VEHICLE thefts in the region plummeted last year, latest figures show.

Bristol Live

• Fury at 'intolerable' motorway noise as 'major' work delayed"That's eight years gone from everyone's lives by the time we see improvements"

Northern Echo

• Anger as private school cuts down trees to build car park RESIDENTS have taken to social media to voice their anger over a private school cutting down established trees on its land to make way for a car park.

Bucks Free Press

• Bucks roadworks: 12 roads to get treatment this week - full list This is where Transport for Bucks will be carrying out roadworks this week.

Burnley Express

• Warning to motorists ahead of freezing conditions in East Lancashire GRITTERS are set to be out this evening on roads in East Lancashire ready for sub-zero temperatures.

Cambridge News

• Abandoned Cambs railway stations we've loved and lostMany of these stations were lost to the Beeching cuts

Reading Evening Post

• Heathrow Airport introduces new charges for passengers Changes have been introduced at the airport
• Reading roads where 20mph zones are set to be introducedMore than 80 per cent of people living near Oxford Road have backed the scheme

Other Regional Press

• 42 lost West Yorkshire railway lines with stations in odd placesThe industrial West Riding's complex railway network was dismantled by controversial Beeching Axe
• Six new UK driving laws in 2021 every motorist should know The Department for Transport has confirmed 2021 is set to bring changes to some motoring laws and policies.
• Latest on speed calming campaign on busy road where schoolboy lost his lifeThey made a pledge to the children in the area to make it safe
• Plane landing at Birmingham Airport 'veered off runway'A report into the incident, which involved a cargo plane, has been published

Other News Sources

• We deserve compensation for Fownhope road repair delays The B4224, the main road through Fownhope to Hereford collapsed back in February 2020 and has just celebrated its first birthday. Recently residents have been informed that the road will not be opened till April .

EIN News Subscription

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