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Thursday, 08 December 2022

BBC News

• Dudley to Brierley Hill tram extension 'likely' to be delayed or scrappedA council report blames rising costs and a lack of other funding for the scheme.
• Rail strikes: Passengers warned not to travel by train next weekDisruption will be inevitable even if strikes are called off passengers are warned
• Border Force staff at airports to strike over ChristmasPassport control officers are to join thousands of public servants in walkouts over pay, the PCS union says.

The Guardian

• Unions tell ministers to stop ‘hiding behind’ pay review bodies in strike talksTUC and Unison say government is not negotiating in good faith, while PM accuses union leaders of being ‘unreasonable’Union leaders have told ministers to stop “hiding behind” pay review bodies in winter strike talks amid warnings that industrial action on the railways could continue for six months.As a rolling wave of industrial action looms, Frances O’Grady, secretary general of the Trades Union Congress, and Christina McAnea, the general secretary of healthcare union Unison, accused the government of refusing to negotiate in good faith and told the chancellor: “Now is not the time for smoke...

The Telegraph

• Border Force staff to strike at airports including Heathrow and Gatwick over Christmas

Times Online

• Border Force strikes: up to 30% of Christmas flights may be cancelled during walkouts. [subscription]Rishi Sunak pledges ’tough’ new laws to block disruptive industrial action

City AM

• Transport secretary: Minimum service level laws not happening anytime soonThe government’s legislation on guaranteeing minimum service levels during strike days will not be debated anytime soon, according to transport secretary Mark Harper.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Anger over delays to £9m facelift for Keighley railway stationANGER has been voiced over continued delays to a long-awaited facelift of Keighley's railway station.

London Evening Standard

• MPs furious at Southeastern scrapping hundreds of daily services to and from central LondonSoutheastern is cutting 302 weekday trains and 426 at the weekend
• Fear of more train chaos in North when timetables changeA number of routes which suffered cuts earlier this year will get more trains scheduled.

Manchester Evening News

• Yet more rail disruption as TransPennine cancels more than 30 services with even more amendedDozens of routes heading to and from Manchester have been impacted

The York Press

• Lib-Dems pledge to fight FirstYork bus service cutsMore local bus services are set to face cuts following notifications of service changes submitted by First York.

Wales Online

• £4.2m granted to clean up Neath Port Talbot streetsThe cash will be used for improvements including public toilets, waste services, road maintenance and grass cutting services

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• 'I'd be lost without this bus': Elderly residents fear for 'lifeline' bus service facing axeThe fate of a

Other Regional Press

• Thousands set to benefit from new railway plansOVER a hundred additional trains will be added to the East and West Midlands rail network benefitting thousands of commuters with faster journey times.
• Light rail could be cheaper and quicker for March to WisbechLight rail could be the cheaper and quicker option to connect Wisbech to March- but is it the right choice for the area?

Construction News

• Lord claims HS2 management knew of alleged ’parallel accounts’A member of the House of Lords has alleged that four of HS2’s senior management, including chief executive Mark Thurston, were aware that the organisation was operating two “parallel” sets of accounts for the project. Lord Tony Berkeley used a debate on whistleblowing in the…

New Civil Engineer

• National Highways based emergency infill of Yorkshire bridge on assessment from three years agoNational Highways infilled a 175-year-old Yorkshire bridge based on a capacity assessment carried out three years prior.

Rail Business Daily

• Final decision on Great British Railways not yet madeThe Transport Secretary Mark Harper says a final decision on Great British Railways (GBR) had not yet been made.

Other News Sources

• Tory minister doubles down on Southeastern rail cuts in SE LondonNot enough passengers are using Southeastern to justify a return to its old timetables, the rail minister has told SE London MPs days before service cuts hit lines across the area.
• Britain’s transport secretary reviewing Great British RailwaysBRITAIN’s secretary of state for transport, Mr Mark Harper, has told a meeting of the Transport Select Committee that he is currently reviewing the process necessary to establish Great British Railways (GBR) as a new governing body for the country’s railway.