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Sunday, 13 February 2022

BBC News

• Birmingham Airport: Families celebrate as travel testing scrappedVaccinated people travelling to the UK no longer need a coronavirus test on arrival or departure.
• HS2: Tameside Council had 'no idea' railway could cut tram linkThe building of the HS2 railway could cut Tameside's tram link to Manchester for two years.

The Herald

• CalMac: Public inquiry demand as costs of emergency ferry support spirals 40-fold in a decadeCALLS have been for a public inquiry into the state of Scotland's beleaguered lifeline ferry services as new figures show the cost of bringing in short-term charters to support the ageing fleet has risen over forty-fold in ten years.
• Plan to integrate Scots bus, ferry and train networks unveiledRADICAL plans have emerged for a 'one network' public transport system for western Scotland with smart card payments and integrated ferries, buses, trains and subway.
• CalMac: Public inquiry demand as costs of emergency ferry support spirals 40-fold in a decadeCALLS have been for a public inquiry into the state of Scotland's beleaguered lifeline ferry services as new figures show the cost of bringing in short-term charters to support the ageing fleet has risen over forty-fold in ten years.

Times Online

• Hauliers furious at minister’s refusal to extend diesel rebate [Subscription]Drivers’ association says their demands were met with ’wall of negativity’
• Scottish drivers face tolls to fund climate change fight as cost of living rises [Subscription]Scottish motorists face being required to pay as they drive under a plan being considered by ministers to help meet climate change targets.
• Off-peak fares leave the station as rail firms eye ticketing shake-up [Subscription]Rail firms need billions to plug a Covid shortfall. They want to tear up ticketing rules to charge a sliding scale of fares through the day
• Supermarkets accused of petrol profiteering as oil climbs towards $100 a barrel [Subscription]Supermarkets stand to rake in bumper petrol profits as the soaring price of oil threatens to exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis.

Mail Online

• 'BA picked on the wrong passenger' after QC is told to leave the planeBritish Airways told top QC Charles Banner, pictured, to leave a flight on Tuesday from Heathrow to Turin on Thursday after he objected to his family's nanny being placed in economy class.
• Car dealers raising prices up to 82% above retail price, as Ford threatens to withhold new carsA new study from auto market research firm Edmunds showed that eighty-two per cent of Americans who bought cars at dealerships over the last year overpaid for the vehicles.

This is Money

• Barrister v British Airways after on-board feudCabin crew forced Charles Banner QC and his family to leave after an argument over his children's nanny being downgraded from business class.

Bristol Live

• 'South Gloucestershire is left out of Bristol's public transport network and lacks one of its own'"I actually enjoy getting the bus, when it turns up and doesn't cost the earth"

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• All cars could soon be fitted with 24/7 tracking devices under tax shake-upA Transport Select Committee report recommends that ministers "must examine the role telematics technology can play" in a new road pricing system

Northern Echo

• Plans for another fuel services area beside A1(M) in RichmondshireEnvironmentalists have expressed exasperation as another plan to build a fuel services and drive-through restaurant area beside the A1(M) in Richmondshire emerged.

The York Press

• Serious defects found in vehicles during York safety operationPOLICE found serious defects in several vehicles and issued immediate prohibition notices during a road safety operation near York.
• Some of the world's fastest vehicles go on show near YorkONE hundred super fast drag cars and bikes from all over the UK - including the British land speed record holder and the 'world's fastest shed' - have gone on display this weekend near York.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• HS2 adopts revolutionary emissions-free cranes on route from London to West MidlandsHS2 has become the first UK construction project to use fully electric giant crawler cranes.

Cambridge News

• Cambridge Station's epic transformation over the last five yearsCambridge Station and its surrounding area has changed dramatically

Other Regional Press

• Transpennine Express Sunday rail strike live updates as Yorkshire routes face huge disruptionYorkshire routes in Leeds, Huddersfield, York, Sheffield, Scarborough and Doncaster are all affected by the rail strike
• Council says it will prioritise road repairs in DorsetDORSET'S highways portfolio holder Ray Bryan has pledged to never return to the days of 'salami slicing' highways budgets.
• New bus service to cover axed route between St Albans and BarnetA new bus service is being brought into cover a route which is being axed.
• 'Hard' closure expected at ongoing road works at Swindon junctionSwindon Borough Council has released a number of updates about the Marlborough Road works.
• How road pricing in Oxford could work according to cycling campaigners CycloxCyclox member Andy Chivers looks at the issue of road pricing from the viewpoint of a cyclist.

Other News Sources

• Motorist hits out at council over concerns someone could be wiped out on "dangerous" potholed roadAn angry motorist has hit out at the council over concerns of inaction regarding ‘dangerous’ potholes on a major route.
• Reopening date announced for Gatwick Airport's South Terminal after two years of it being shutThe South Terminal has been closed for nearly two years
• Gatwick and Heathrow Airport: Latest travel requirements for Austria, Greece and IcelandThese are the current Covid-19 restrictions if you're planning to travel to Austria, Greece or Iceland