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Saturday, 28 January 2023

BBC News

• Car-sharing app offers private vehicles for hireBBC Click's Nick Kwek test drives a car from a firm offering an alternative to traditional rentals.
• HS2 will run through to London Euston, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt saysThis follows reports that rising costs could mean the rail link might stop in the suburbs of west London.
• Flybe: Regional carrier ceases trading and cancels all flightsThe airline tells passengers expecting to travel with it not to go to the airport.

Financial Times

• Hunt insists HS2 rail line will terminate in central LondonChancellor rejects reports that project will finish on outskirts of capital to save money

The Guardian

• Flybe: all flights cancelled as airline ceases tradingCustomers advised not to go to airport and to contact their booking agentRegional airline Flybe has ceased trading and all its scheduled flights have been cancelled, the UK Civil Aviation Authority has announced.“All Flybe flights have now been cancelled. Please do not go to the airport as flights will not be operating,” the authority said in a statement early on Saturday. Continue reading...

The Herald

• Glasgow metro and Edinburgh trams funding decisions delayedTransport Secretary Michael Matheson has delayed his delivery plan for the Clyde metro and Edinburgh trams extension until the spring amid “budgetary uncertainties” he blamed on the UK Government.

Times Online

• Airlines bag bonus from families who carry cases and sit together. [subscription]Airlines are raking in record revenue from selling baggage space and other extras as families face rising costs for holidays.

City AM

• Transpennine: Sunak threatens to strip train operator of contract following its spat with Aslef over overtime banPrime Minister Rishi Sunak warned train operator Transpennine Express (TPE) it may lose a lucrative government contract, while the firm blamed the Aslef union for its ban on overtime working.

Daily Record

• New Paisley Whitecart river transport connections scheme gets go aheadProposed transport connections that will see a new road bridge over the Whitecart river and a riverside route from Abercorn Street to Inchinnan Road have been approved by councillors.

i News

• Eurostar’s intentionally empty seats show post-Brexit rules are holding us back from Europe’s rail renaissanceTrains are leaving Amsterdam Centraal station almost three-quarters empty in an attempt to avoid long queues

The National

• Ferry link from Edinburgh to Fife proposed in council transport planPROPOSALS for a ferry link between Edinburgh and Fife will be on the table as part of a transport action plan from the capital’s council.

Birmingham Mail

• HS2 from Birmingham will only run to edge of London for 'first years', mayor Andy Street confirmsFears over whether HS2 line will ever take passengers into centre of London reignited by reports that Euston terminus could be axed

Birmingham Post

• Airbus to hire 13,000 staff as it ramps up production in 2023There will be a focus on technical and manufacturing jobs, according to the aerospace company
• Cancelling HS2 to Euston would be 'height of folly', rail group says amid fears for Birmingham-Manchester leg Chancellor insist scheme will happen; one analyst says 'If you’re flying into Heathrow, you don’t want to go to Southend'

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Councillor slams lack of progress on 'surface of the moon' roadA senior Conservative has accused a council of “steadfastly doing nothing” to repair a road previously likened to the surface of the moon.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Take the top off Schoolhill train tunnel and get Peterhead and Fraserburgh back on trackTaking the top off an Aberdeen city centre train tunnel could help get Peterhead and Fraserburgh reconnected to the rail network, a campaigner has argued.

Yorkshire Post

• Hunt forced to deny that HS2 will be scaled backChancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he did not see “any conceivable circumstances” in which HS2 would not run to its planned central London terminus at Euston, amid reports that section of the route could be axed because of rising costs.

Bucks Free Press

• HS2: Lords peer calls for high speed rail to be 'cancelled'A peer behind an HS2 review commissioned by ex-prime minister Boris Johnson has said the entire project should be scrapped amid reports the high-speed rail line may not reach its central London terminus at Euston because of rising costs.

Leeds Live

• Flybe Leeds Bradford Airport statement and how to get a refund as airline stops tradingIncluding what to do if you have a flight booked with Flybe and how to get your money back

Other Regional Press

• Accessibility improvements planned for Glasgow train stationsA major project is underway to ensure that Scotland’s Railway is more accessible to customers with works planned for a number of stations in and around Glasgow this year.
• WMR had 1398 services affected during four weeks to January 7WEST Midlands Railway had a total of 1398 trains either cancelled or part cancelled in a four-week period.
• Oxford cycle campaigners call for no more road deathsJames Felce called for rapid and determined action to cut further deaths on Oxfordshire roads
• Network Rail's anger as mounds of 'unsightly' fly-tipping found piled near track in NuneatonEverything from washing baskets to clothes, buckets and even old barriers have been dumped