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Cathay Pacific data hack hits 9.4 million passengers
The Hong Kong airline said personal details including passport and credit card numbers were accessed.
Cancelled flights at British airports double in a year [Subscription]
The number of flights cancelled at British airports has almost doubled in just 12 months after a rise in air traffic control strikes and bad weather.
Central line strike: TfL commuters face Tube chaos as union announces new strike on same day as Piccadilly line walkout
Hundreds of thousands of commuters will be hit by a double Tube strike after the RMT union announced a Central line walkout on the same day as industrial action on the Piccadilly line.
Thursday, 25 October 2018
BBC News
- Serial Birmingham car-jackers used tow truck for theftsPolice say a
- Pothole problems: Call to fix Welsh roads before building new onesThere are calls to repair Wales' damaged roads as a priority before new ones are built.
- Luxury cars crushed as transporter hits low bridge in PerthThe roofs of at least two new Range Rovers were seriously damaged in the accident in Perth.
- Roadside pollution 'public health crisis'Transport bosses call for government funding to tackle high levels of roadside nitrogen dioxide.
- Manchester city centre 'unexploded tank cartridge' closes roadsA 100m cordon was set up and several buildings evacuated following the discovery in Manchester.
Times Online
- Road safety inspectors given the power to seize unsafe vehicles [Subscription]Road safety inspectors are being given powers to seize and immobilise buses and lorries that are found to be dangerously defective during roadside checks.
- Assembly line slump leaves car production lowest in three years [Subscription]Car production in Britain has fallen by almost 17 per cent to a three-year low as the crisis in the industry deepens.
- Tesla motors ahead with first profit in two years [Subscription]Shares jump 11 per cent after company hails ‘historic’ results
- The future is driverless [Subscription]In a new Sky documentary, Sue Perkins discovers how lives will be changed by driverless cars
Reuters News
- UK car production slumps in SeptemberBritish car output fell by 16.8 percent last month, hit by new emissions regulations, model changes, trade tensions and uncertainty over diesel policy and Brexit, an industry body said on Thursday.
City AM
- Musk comes good on profit pledge as Tesla rolls into the blackElon Musk delivered Wall Street his long-promised pledge of putting Tesla in the black late this evening, with shares soaring more than 12 per cent after the bell as the company produced its largest quarterly profit ever.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Revealed – ‘Unsightly’ state of Ipswich’s old and crumbling roadsAgeing concrete roads which have fallen into disrepair should be given improvements to bring them up to scratch, councillors have said.
- Traffic chaos fears over 17-MILE diversion for village roadworksSuffolk villagers are to face a huge diversion next week when a short stretch of road closes for a month.
Other Regional Press
- Campaign gains momentum after three pedestrians hit by cars in two weeks The road safety campaign started by the parents of a 13-year-old boy who was struck by a car on Dracaena Avenue is gaining momentum.
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