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No Covid traces found in railway stations or trains
Heavily touched areas like escalator handles, ticket machines and benches were swabbed for the virus.
'Levelling up promises being broken' as doubts grow over HS2 reaching Yorkshire
South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis has said the Government “once again appears to be reneging on its promises to level up the North” as doubts grow over whether HS2 will ever reach Yorkshire.
Major rail improvements get underway across Manchester
Rail engineers started major improvements to track and railway bridges between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge and Manchester Victoria and Rochdale this weekend.
Monday, 02 August 2021
BBC News
- Coronavirus: New rules for fully jabbed US and EU arrivals beginPeople vaccinated in the EU or US will not need to isolate when coming to the UK from an amber country.
Financial Times
- Clouds lift as confidence returns to battered aviation industryOptimism slowly spreads with highest number of planes in sky since start of pandemic
The Guardian
- JetBlue ready to launch low-cost New York to London flightsUS-based airline aims to tread where others have failed – and in the teeth of the Covid pandemicA low-cost airline service with a brand new business class cabin, flying London to New York? As Frank Sinatra might have said: if you can make it there, in the teeth of a global pandemic when the US bars British citizens and advises its own to stay put … well, you can make it anywhere.On 11 August, nonetheless, JetBlue will launch transatlantic flights that could rattle one of aviation’s normally most lucrative markets. The airline, one of the biggest in America but without the global presence of th...
The Telegraph
- Turbulence at Heathrow as third of top team exit [subscription]Three members of the executive committee quit as the airport struggles with Covid travel restrictions
- Travel news latest: Quarantine scrapped for fully vaccinated US and EU arrivals [subscription]Double-jabbed travellers from the US and most European countries can now travel to the UK without facing self-isolation after a rule change came into effect at 4am this morning.
- Baggage boss warns of airport chaos amid shifting rules [subscription]Swissport boss warns that 'cancellations will be inevitable' with handlers unable to keep up with changing schedules
Times Online
- ‘Extortionate’ Covid travel test providers face axe [subscription]The most expensive coronavirus testing companies for foreign travel face being struck off a government list of providers after criticism over “extortionate” prices.
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