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Wednesday, 21 July 2021

BBC News

• Bristol Airport: Inquiry into expansion refusal beginsA council has defended its decision to reject expansion proposals of an airport despite the threat of a costly planning appeal.
• Covid: Officers told not to check green and amber arrivals, union saysPassenger locator forms and mandatory tests will not be routinely reviewed in England, a union confirms.

Financial Times

• EasyJet warns UK is being left behind because of Covid travel curbsAirline increases number of flights in response to surge in bookings from continental Europe
• Border checks cut on people returning from green and amber list countriesOfficials at English ports and airports instructed not to do full examinations on passengers’ paperwork

The Guardian

• Why does Jeff Bezos’s rocket look like that? An inquiryExperts weigh in on the ‘anthropomorphic’ design of New Shepard, the Amazon CEO’s Blue Origin rocketJeff Bezos’s 11-minute trip aboard a Blue Origin rocket to the edge of space on Tuesday left the world’s richest man feeling “unbelievably goodâ€� and his crew “very happyâ€�. But afterwards, as he wondered aloud how fast he could refuel, the rest of the world was left pondering just why the New Shepard rocket had such a distinctive shape.As social media erupted with innuendo, we contacted a few experts to find out why it looked, in the words of one astrophysicist, so “anthropomorphicâ€�. At one major...

The Telegraph

• Pictures of the Day: Billionaire Jeff Bezos launches into space on 10 minute 62 mile high flight

City AM

• Britain's decarbonising its transport but it's losing the race against timeThe Mayor of London wants London to decarbonise quickly, setting a target of net zero by 2030, twenty years ahead of the government’s target. In London around one quarter of CO2 emissions comes from transport.  
• Exclusive: Number of private jets available for purchase dries up as demand soars during pandemicThe number of private jets available for purchase has plummeted sharply in the last year after wealthy individuals snapped up most of the world’s available planes due to the pandemic.

Birmingham Mail

• Birmingham Airport sees rise in passenger numbers after Freedom Day travel rules changeBirmingham Airport is already seeing a rise in passenger numbers following yesterday's relaxation of travel restrictions.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Airbus' fourth 'whale of the sky' takes off on maiden flightBelugaXL 4 took to the skies for the first time in Toulouse

Manchester Evening News

• More airlines flying from Manchester Airport's new super terminalFive more airlines are to begin flying from Manchester Airport's new super terminal, it's been announced.