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Saturday, 11 June 2022

BBC News

• Fuel costs: The drivers living with the UK's highest pricesPeople living in parts of the Highlands are used to paying more for petrol and diesel.
• Fuel prices: London petrol station sells diesel at nearly £2.50 a litreMotoring group the RAC says the station has one of the highest prices for fuel in the UK.
• Croydon tram crash: TfL to admit to failings over fatal derailmentSeven passengers died and 61 were injured when a tram derailed in south London in 2016.
• ScotRail to resume late weekday trains after pay breakthroughScotRail has added later services from Monday as the dispute with drivers moves towards resolution.
• Are Scotland's airports facing holiday disruption?Scotland's airports have distanced themselves from the chaos in England in recent weeks.
• Train drivers to join other rail workers on strikeAslef union members will walkout over over pay after RMT announced 40,000 members would strike.
• Covid: US to drop test requirement for air travellersThe change, which comes into effect on Sunday, comes after pressure from the travel industry.
• Refineries cash in as petrol prices soarA lack of capacity to process crude oil has helped to drive fuel prices to record levels
• Airports told to stop failing disabled passengersSome flyers have been left waiting hours for help getting off planes, the UK regulator says.
• Rail strikes and flight cancellations: Are UK travellers heading for a summer of misery?After two years of Covid rules, airline disruption and rail strikes risk overshadowing the summer.

Financial Times

• Bus journeys and cycling surge as UK drivers try to cut fuel useOnline searches for electric cars also climb as cost of filling a petrol tank passes £100
• Delays, shortages and strikes: can the aviation industry get airborne by summer?As passenger numbers pick up, staffing problems at airports have caused chaos across the US and Europe

The Guardian

• Forecourts face up to three attempted fuel thefts a day as petrol prices soarSurge in incidents comes as the cost of filling a family car passes £100 for the first timeRising petrol prices have led to an increase in the number of drivers trying to drive off without paying, with forecourts facing up to three attempted thefts a day on average, figures from industry experts show.As the cost of filling up has soared in recent weeks, so has the number of incidents where motorists have either driven away without paying or claimed to have no means of payment. Continue reading...

The Herald

• Neil Mackay: ScotRail pay offer is first victory against our corrupt systemARE we supposed to look at the disastrous economic system that our governments have created over the last decades and support it? Fight for it? Defend it? Or should we rather look at what our politicians have done and want to tear it down brick by brick?

The Independent

• Flight cancellations, rail strikes and passport problems: your travel questions answered by Simon CalderWhich airlines are doing best and worst? Should rail travellers risk a mid-strike journey? And those EU passport rules
• Airports told to stop ‘unacceptable’ failings for disabled peopleThe Civil Aviation Authority said there had been an increase in reports of ‘significant service failings’.

The Telegraph

• Stop driving your car on short journeys, warns AA as fuel prices surge

Times Online

• More rail strikes will cripple Scotland’s recovery, economists warn [subscription]Further rail strikes across Scotland will strip millions of pounds from the economy, experts predict, as council officials demand that SNP ministers intervene on a pay dispute to ensure schools can reopen in August.
• More rail strikes will cripple Scotland’s recovery, economists warn [subscription]Further rail strikes across Scotland will strip millions of pounds from the economy, experts predict, as council officials demand that SNP ministers intervene on a pay dispute to ensure schools can reopen in August.
• Rising fuel prices ‘hit high street’ [subscription]Soaring fuel prices are depriving high streets of £23 million a day of consumer spending as household budgets come under pressure, figures suggest.
• Rising fuel prices ‘hit high street’ [subscription]Soaring fuel prices are depriving high streets of £23 million a day of consumer spending as household budgets come under pressure, figures suggest.
• EasyJet stuck on tarmac as chaos continues [subscription]Analysts say the airline is to blame for the woes which have caused its share price to plummet
• Flights chaos to get worse, warn easyJet pilots [subscription]EasyJet pilots have warned that the worst of the disruption affecting its operations could be yet to come.
• First road bridge between Russia and China opens [subscription]Russia and China have opened the first road bridge between them in the latest sign of Moscow’s pivot to Beijing.
• Ministers urged to stop big new rise in rail fares [subscription]Rail passengers face fare increases of more than 11 per cent next year unless the government changes its policy, an industry watchdog has warned.

City AM

• Work starts on unique HS2 tunnel that will blend railway into local landscape in first of its kind in UKHS2 said today work has begun on the construction of an innovative green tunnel designed to blend the railway into the landscape. The one-and-a-half-mile-long structure in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, is being built on the surface of the ground to speed up the process. More than 5,000 concrete segments made in a factory in Derbyshire will [...] The post Work starts on unique HS2 tunnel that will blend railway into local landscape in first of its kind in UK appeared first on CityAM.

Daily Express

• Fuel price: London petrol station charges soaring £2.50 per litre in another 'new record'A PETROL STATION in Chelsea, west London is charging £2.50 a litre, days after the cost of filling an average family car with petrol rose to £100 for the first time in the UK, reports show.

Daily Record

• ScotRail to run more later trains in hope for driver pay dispute resolutionSome 700 services disappeared from the newly-nationalised operator as members of the Aslef union refused to work rest days.

Mail Online

• Half of RMT workers set to strike received pay rises and bonuses for two of the past three yearsAbout 20,000 RMT staff at Network Rail got salary increases of 3.2 per cent and 2.1 per cent in 2019 and 2020 respectively, and workers pocketed £650 bonuses both years.
• Train services cancelled because staff won't work when it's sunny, GUY ADAMS investigatesGUY ADAMS:The scene is rush-hour in Birmingham. Every few minutes, uniformed railway workers emerge from a modern building opposite the entrance to New Street station.
• Britain faces MONTHS of rail strikes as union announces MORE workers will be given vote on walkoutsThe proposed industrial action by the TSSA, led by Manuel Cortes, would mean that disruption on Britain's rail network planned for the end of June would be extended through the summer.
• UK airport chaos: Aviation expert suggests Britons should consider cancelling holidaysAs the airport chaos continued at airports in Britain today, aviation expert Julian Bray told MailOnline that those who have only paid a deposit of about 10 per cent should consider cancelling now

The Mirror

• Fuel prices are so high the AA is urging drivers to walk to save moneyThe AA is now urging people to "cut out shorter journeys" and "walk or cycle to save money" due to the spiralling fuel costs which have hit record highs this week

Belfast Telegraph

• Airports told to stop ‘unacceptable’ failings for disabled peopleThe aviation watchdog has told airports to address ‘unacceptable’ failings affecting disabled people and warned it could use legal enforcement powers if they continue.

Birmingham Post

• Strike ballots planned at CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway and West Midlands TrainsUnion boss: 'Unless these demands are met, we could be seeing a summer of discontent across our railway'

Bolton News

• Drivers told to avoid short car journeys as petrol prices riseThe AA have advised drivers they should 'walk or cycle to save money'.

Bristol Live

• Misery for drivers as petrol prices rise 7.3p in just seven days - 'worst week of pump pain so far'The price of fuel is breaking records regularly but not for the right reasons

Northern Echo

• Cost of living: price of petrol exceeds £100 per tankThe average cost of filling a typical family car with petrol has exceeded £100 for the first time.
• Go North East faces claims Chester-le-Street depot was 'run down' by firmGO NORTH EAST has been accused of

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Trams hit with problems just one day after services resumedTram services suffered a temporary setback this afternoon when a

Reading Evening Post

• M4 closures this weekend with roadworks near HeathrowRoadworks on the motorway continue during the second weekend of June

Other Regional Press

• 11 ways to save fuel as the AA demands a 10p tax cutAs the AA calls for a 10p cut in fuel duty we look at other ways drivers can conserve what's in their tank to reduce petrol and diesel bills.

Railnews

• Growing threat of complete rail stoppages this summer The government’s plans to run about a fifth of normal train services during the RMT strike days this month are being threatened by action being taken by the other rail unions, and it is now possible that the system will come to a complete halt.

Other News Sources

• Eight days of road closures to hit major Hereford roadA MAJOR road in Hereford will be closed overnight later this month for roadworks to make it safer.

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