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Travel misery for Londoners as rail track temperatures rise to 50C
Londoners have faced travel misery today as the temperature of rail tracks rose to about 50C, on the hottest day of the year so far.
This week's Politics File with Ian Craig: £114 million down the drain - and for what?
WHEN the M4 relief road was scrapped we learned £114 million has been spent on the project, despite not a single yard of tarmac being laid.
Sunday, 30 June 2019
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- Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faultsBillions over budget, years late in opening, and still being rebuilt before a single plane has landed. What's gone so wrong at the new Berlin airport?
- County Monaghan: WW2 plane wreckage removed from fieldThe plane crashed in County Monaghan in 1942, after the American pilot had bailed out.
- Seven new Glasgow Airport strike dates announced for JulyThe action is scheduled to take place throughout the first fortnight of July in a row over pay and pensions.
The Independent
- Pilot forced to dump fuel, causing explosion, after flying through flock of birdsThe pilot 'saved multiple lives'
Times Online
- Summer is here — and the cost of holiday flights is suddenly sky high [Subscription]If you live in Scotland and have yet to book a sunshine break, brace yourself: some air fares more than doubled this weekend after schools finished for the summer. On the bright side, families could save a four-figure sum by departing from airports in northern England instead.
Mail Online
- Royal Navy officer arranges for a £20m military helicopter to visit pupils from private school (including his own) - at the taxpayers' expenseA Royal Navy officer whose children attend a private school in west London gave pupils a treat by arranging for a military helicopter to visit them - albeit at the taxpayer's expense.
North Wales Live
- Flight emergency declared on board Virgin Atlantic plane flying over North Wales - recap The Boeing 787 is taking passengers from Los Angeles to London's Heathrow Airport
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- Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults … copyright Jim Frank No passengers have ever emerged from … But they are using data from other airports, elsewhere in Berlin. … hubs in all Central Europe." Image copyright Getty … this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers …
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